Two full garden bags out to the curb for pickup yesterday and that was just sweeping up the patio and laneway out front. Next time I will rake the lawn and get another bag or two for the next week. It is getting sooner and sooner for putting car in the garage. I could put it in now but I still like the ease of moving about in there and the car occupies a lot of space as it is a small garage. I need to cover the air conditioner as I forgot to complete that task the other day. I didn't have the tape at hand so will get that done and the tape is ready to use. Today is meant to be another nice day although somewhat cloudy the weather says. But that is fine. The frost still wasn't a hard enough frost to kill off the weeds but I will start I think to spend one hour probably in the morning but might be afternoon and work clearing away a little bit each day.
I completed Chromosome 17 cross over points checking them against the matches I have collected and will work on Chromsome 16 today. The half way point is 11/12 so getting there. Then I can rephase the grandparents and start to organize myself for the great grandparents. Blake will be easy and it splits to Blake and Knight and any matches that are for these two distinctly have been marked as such as it was easy to spot them. As it turns out I have a lot more Cotterill matches than I thought and I have been cautious to record if they come down from the marriage of Mary Rawlins and Stephen Cotterell and then their grand daughter Mary Rawlins marriage to William Rawlins and they went off to Australia which is a good marker for those matches and the source of a number of the Cotterill matches. There are a few that appear to go back to the Cotterill and Sherwood families in the Kimpton area and I will have a look at them. I would be looking at half 2nd cousin matches at the most and I do not believe there are any but time will tell. I have not looked at these matches for at least four years. There are third cousin and so they are suspicious for being descendant of the earlier matching Cotterill family descendants. The spelling of the name moved from Cotterell to Cotterill at some point in both lines. Then Pincombe and Gray do stand out rather well so I am hopeful at being able to phase these two great grandparents. That brings me to Buller and Taylor where the Buller falls fairly neatly into Buller and Welch the next set back in that line and my 2x great grandparents. The Taylor not quite so easy although it looks very like Taylor and Roberts at the 2x great grandparent level but I do not have a lot of easily usable matches for this line but the Taylor line is my mtDNA line which is very unique and I have some good tracing on it plus small matches in the United States with the Rev William Martin migration from Northern Ireland to the Carolinas in 1772 and these individuals, many of them, were planters from Scotland to Northern Ireland during the time of Cromwell (1640s-50). So it will be interesting to do this particular task of phasing my great grandparents.
I was able to easily send the revised copy of the Siderfin book and the Companion Charting book of the Siderfin Family of West Somerset to Family Search. You can do it all on line (just drop the files) and they send you the form to fill in permitting them to make use of the book including copying it. So that is all done and I can put Siderfin out of my brain now. Although I am not sure I put the Companion book up elsewhere so must check that. Then the task will be complete. It was marvelous revising James Sanders book - such a wonderful opportunity to begin my writing in genealogy.
I have one other book I will likely revise although will check with George DeKay's family before I do so. George and I had discussed it a couple of times and I know he wanted to expand the section on the Carling family. Personally I felt it was quite complete although I would like to add my own grandfather's comments on his mother's first cousin Sir John as he very much looked up to Sir John and spent some time with him. He encouraged John, I think, to become interested in politics. As my grandmother used to comment that he would argue for hours on particular items and her interest in politics was pretty low and sometimes she would disagree with him and he would then explain it to her in great detail so she could understand his point of view. It must have been fascinating as I am sorry I never got to know that grandfather - he died twenty years before I was born when my mother was only eight years old. It was a loss that she felt all of her life - losing him like that but he was nearly 54 years of age when he passed. Unfortunately he was a heavy drinker and it took its toll on him I suspect although he actually died from a typical farmer's type of disease at the time. So expanding the section on Carling means getting into Canadian history and again I do not want to write a book which isn't academically challenged if I get into too much actual historical happenings. So will think about that. George did bring the recording of the family tree pretty much up to the 1960s (he published it in 1976). I would only bring it up to the 1921 census but I would take it back somewhat further in a number of the lines that we shared as my great grandmother Grace Gray was a daughter of Robert Gray and Mary Ann Routledge and George was descended from Robert's brother William Gray married to Mary Beverley (their daughter Edna married Percival DeKay (George's parents) . George was my 3rd cousin once removed (I think sometimes I say fourth cousin which is not quite correct). I have a lot more on the Routledge family and the Gray family in Bewcastle, Cumberland and Cherry Burton/Etton/Holme on the Wolds, East Riding of Yorkshire to add in as well. Some interesting DNA matches as no genealogy book these days is really complete without some reference to autosomal DNA matching I think.
I still have to think about what to do with all of the Newsletters that I have written (they are all accessible on the FT DNA website and stored on my website). Should I put them together as a sort of stand alone Journal (Blake Newsletter, Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter, H11 Newsletter and Kipp Newsletter (a new addition and really mostly Edward's work)). I could then publish them with a Creative Commons License. I have been very cautious not to have any personal information of any of the people in the studies thus making it easy to do that. I might ask at FT DNA about that actually. They may have a better idea. Eventually my website will disappear unless one of my relatives takes it on.
Lots to think about for sure and the winter is coming when I can get so much more done. Thank goodness as I do want to get these photo albums sorted around before Christmas and will do some work today on that as yesterday slipped by without my doing anything. I just feel I need to do a perfect and efficient job of it since it is part of Edward's legacy to his children and grandchildren.
Tea drank and solitaire puzzles to do.
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