Yesterday spent a couple of hours working on the matches. I have this large group of matches (in Ancestry so TIMBER has been utilized before publication of the results) between 30 and 20 cM (about twenty) so is a pileup so to speak but not labeled as a common pileup area but all the members that have a tree have early American colonial ancestry and it appears to be Blake but that also includes Knight, Arnold, Butt, Farmer, King and a few other surnames back into the past. The matches in common do include mostly what I call Blake so it has been an interesting look at all of those matches. Will complete the 191 matches today that were assigned to the group Blake perhaps. We will see. I do have one in particular that was transferred to Gedmatch and the difference is significant. The match shows up for two of my siblings tested on Ancestry that are not listed because they are too small (9.8 cM and 11.2 cM before TIMBER) and the amounts for my other sibling who does match as well as myself is a decrease of 7 cM when TIMBER is applied so part of this length is considered ethnicity matching. Do they stretch back to the Sedgewick family of Massachusetts with Maj Gen Robert Sedgwicke having married Joanna Blake at Andover, Hampshire, England. That would be incredibly amazing. Their grandmother Jone (Blake) Blake was likely a second cousin to Richard Blake her husband and back just two generations Richard's grandparents were Nicholas Blake and his wife Margaret (likely Blake) Blake and they would have been second cousins as well. DNA does pass in sticky segments on occasion as this appears to be a known ethnicity area (at least part of the length) that does make sense. Anyway will wait and see. Earlier there were small matches (later removed when they upgraded) to the Sedgwicke family of Massachusetts. I did download those particular items way back as I tested very very early on at Ancestry and have been a continuing member of Ancestry from 2003 on. But one has to consider that Richard was my 10 x great grandfather so his descendants would be my 11th cousins and it is considered pretty remote to have a match. I do have known 7th and 8th cousins where the endogamy really shows up. But that endogamy is much more recent. But a sticky piece of Chromosomal DNA has the potential to travel through the generations but it will take very intense study to identify them for sure as belonging to a family rather than a genus.
Basement though is done and time to move to the first floor for cleaning and that is today. Routine is the basis of all things and I love routine although I easily change it up to suit the day. The tiny little leaf is upon us once again as the tree out front looses its lovely tiny yellow leaves. It will soon be past and when is the hard frost coming we have waited a while for that. That is the nice part of being old is remembering the just under fifty years that that tree has been there shedding all over the front yard. There are a lot of nice parts of being over 80; being a hermit for sure is one of them but I was always pretty much a hermit so not a big change there. Edward did influence that to a great extent getting me out there doing stuff that he wanted to be involved in with him like the OGS and Church and of course our mutual love of astronomy but he was also into things like amateur radio - his life was full of happenings and that was when he was happiest for sure. I love going to Church; it is my most favourite outing to be absolutely honest. I love the music and the singing and the prayers that bring out all of those wonderful thoughts about our world. But I can do that at home now with YouTube and my Church online. It is great really. It is like being isolated in one's own little spot in the world just going out for sustenance on occasion when the food runs out.
So I can see the books starting to draw me back in as winter approaches but also I want to set aside an hour or even two every day to work on the photo albums. They need to be ready for this new time and easier to manage and fewer of them - seven or eight sounds good. The first one is complete and I am tempted to pass it on as I complete them and must investigate that with my children one of these days. We chat every day and that is marvelous when you consider that my father left his grandparents in England and never saw them again; not even once. It was one of his sorrows for sure losing that piece of himself.
Cloudy today so no views of Venus sad to say as it is wonderful to welcome the day with Venus above us sparkling just before dawn I notice it generally.
Already completed the solitaire puzzles; brain woke up very refreshed and now it is teatime and then yoga and then breakfast once again. The cleaning will follow probably beginning around 9 a.m.
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