I did spend quite a bit of time on the DNA matches on Ancestry just organizing them by family where the match has identified Common Ancestry. For the most part these results fit quite closely to my own settling into the various family lines. There is the occasional one that does not although the match is clearly there but just not the right ancestor. I suppose in 100 samples I might find one or two seldom more than that and sometimes I do not find any at all. This time I noticed that many of the Siderfin hits now include a lot more detail in the family trees so possibly the Companion Charting Book has assisted people. Whether it does or not it is available although I must send it to Family Search. I keep forgetting to update the first book that I did send to them and add the second book. Life has been very very busy. Who would have ever guessed that I would end up doing all this work in my old age. I had planned to smock dresses, make knitted sweaters, crochet baby blankets to send to the North as my grandmother had done for many many years through Salvation Army. I have not done so because I did not retire until 2007 and by then I was deep into DNA and genealogical research. My mother would certainly not be disappointed although my grandmother had little interest she still supplied me with a great deal of information on the Pincombe family (her husband's family) but not a great deal on her own. Occasionally she would tell me items on her Buller - Taylor line but for the most part I am not at all sure she was that knowledgeable on her family lines. Her mother died when she was eleven and her father when she was fourteen. She was offered a home with her father's sisters but declined when they would not take all the children (there were five (four girls and one boy)) and hence went into the Children's Home at Soho in Birmingham where she was Head girl and able to keep her younger sisters with her. I suspect that was part of the inducement for going with them as she did not want to part with her siblings. Sad really but she said it was a good home and a lot of the other children had had a father who was in the army (Edwin Denner Buller was a Medic in the First Boer War and pensioned out after he was injured and sent back to Birmingham for care). She did know some information on that and I was able to find his enlistment papers and discharge and return to hospital care in Birmingham.
Lovely walk on the beach yesterday and not too busy given that it was a Wednesday perhaps and school is back in. There was a wind in the trees which is always welcomed I think and it is true they are turning a little earlier this year (said to be partly because of the drought). The water looks very clear these days and in spite of the drought looks quite high which is also a good sign I think.
Today more work on the matches and likely still with Ancestry to really set that material up for usage in the near future. I will also plan how I am going to work with FT DNA and My Heritage simultaneously. Now that the trees can be linked between the two it will be helpful perhaps with the FT DNA results.
I think it must be coming into my 80s that I am sometimes absorbed in looking back and contemplating events in my life but today I am more interested in getting as much done as possible on the matches and perhaps a little work on the photo books since the cleaning is now completely done and I have four days ahead of me to pretty much just work on my projects in my working time. I like to avoid too much useless reminiscing unless it is remembering my children or the times that Edward and I spent discovering in our various trips hither and yon. I will always remember how thrilled he was as he discovered yet another ancestor particularly in our trips into the New England States and New York where most of his ancestors lived right up into the early 1800s and up to the 1820s having come to the American Colonies in the 1600s.
Making my tea and then solitaire puzzles.
Prayers continuing for the children of Israel, the children of Gaza and the children of Ukraine and I continue to avoid the news except briefly first thing each morning.
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