Yesterday the cleaning of the basement was accomplished in good time and I also worked on the matches. Although progress forward is slow that is generally the case at the beginning of each new set of Chromosome matches. In this case I do not have a lot of known matches in the central part of Chromosome 1 but I have an enormous number of matches because there is a large common area on this particular chromosome. Sorting through them and using the relative finder on 23 and Me (many of these matches are on there) let me ensure that I had carefully and correctly assigned the matches either to Pincombe or Rawlings which is the split for one set of siblings and between Buller and Blake for the other set of siblings. There is a distinct divide between the siblings on this chromosome. It is a lengthy one (likely 70% of the chromosome has thus been inherited by the siblings from the parents and by relation to the grandparents). I tend to refer to all matches by their grandparent line rather than the parent line. It is interesting that parents become less important when one looks at the DNA - it all points back to the grandparents and further back. That slows me down just a little doing all those checks and making sure I did not make a mistake because some of these matches have not been looked at for years and I have been collecting them for well over a decade and a half. I started early and extracted every piece/detail that was available at the time just to keep the file complete for future investigation because in 2012 one really could not predict what one would like in the future so I, following my scientific training, collected everything. Funny really how much use I make of that scientific training now in my old age although when I worked and the opportunity presented itself I was there to do anything that needed to be done - research the literature, whatever, just for the pure joy of dawdling about in science once again. I do love the scientific method which has evolved even in my lifetime. It is such a wondrous way to look at the world which too has evolved along the lines that science takes us but history sometimes intervenes and prevents the natural course of events whether it be because of jealousy/greed/hatred all the satanistic tendencies that exist in the frailty of humanity. God warned us/ordered us to put Satan behind us and ignore Satan; cast Satan into the darkness where such ignorance belongs. Perhaps in that darkness the satanists (in this case the Russians) can find their humanity and stop committing crimes against their neighbour. May God's will be done. The Creator as always is on the side of humanity that follows the rules that He set eons ago.
So today cleaning the main floor and vacuuming up the stairs. Another big day of cleaning but soon done and back to the matches. I have only accomplished eighteen of the 181 (one has now been placed in the "Too small" file. But six of the cross over points are proven out of 18 which is really great actually. The sooner they are proven the easier the work flows for sure. Once completed I will then do Chromosome 23 matches which have also not been observed for quite a while. I can eliminate the "too small" entries into their own folder and use just the larger results. Now that I have enough proofs on that chromosome as well it makes for a very tidy set of chromosome results for the five siblings. Once I have re-phased the grandparents then I move to the great grandparents and back to writing. That process will be slow although as I have moved through these matches I have made note where I actually know the great grandparent line for matches by the descent of cousins.
I also must get back to the photo books. They tug at my heart strings and so I only work at them when I am feeling that downsizing moment in my life as anything else I just find it too difficult to do that. I remember my mother as she sorted through my Great-Uncle's belongings and I saw expressions on her face I had never seen in my entire life. A softness for this uncle she had known all of her life and the items that he had kept from her childhood as his life long memories. He did not have children of his own and the Buller line of that family died with him at the age of 84. He served in the Royal Highlanders from London, Ontario in the First World War. Was injured and sent back to England from France and rejoined his regiment sometime in 1918 and was there for the end of the war. Edwin Denner Buller was born 10 Mar 1888 at Aston nr Birmingham, Warwickshire, England the son of a soldier from the First Boer War also named Edwin Denner Buller. Sent to Canada by the Birmingham Union (he was orphaned when he was just 11 years of age) when he was 16 to work on one of the farms in New Brunswick. He loved it there and asked if they would ask for his sister who had a heart condition as she could help in their kitchen. They obliged and when the inspector from the Birmingham Union came by the next year to check on him the family asked for his younger sister. Although it was unusual it did happen and Ada Gertrude Buller was sent to New Brunswick that summer. It was the beginning of the transition of this group of five siblings from the Marston Green Cottage Homes where they were sent to live after their father died in 1899. By 1908 they were all here in Canada and met their half-sister that they did not know they had. Interesting really how people arrived here in Canada in that time period. So remembering my mother that day as she sorted through all of that material all at once (I volunteered to come and help her) and the pain on her face I thought to myself that day I will take my time if ever this occasion rises for me. The memory comes back and if I find the work heavy going I go back to my matches which are more of a futuristic thing that I am building but the material is there ready for anyone to do it in the future so long as the databases last. But I do not really think beyond the moment to be honest. It is just interesting and it is always nice to have interesting projects. Although I would have also enjoyed the knitting, sewing, crocheting that I had planned for my retirement! That is sort of the amusing thing in all of this; I am easily contented working away at projects.
Solitaire games all played and tea completed. Time to get some work done.
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