Sunday today it will be Remembrance Day Sunday at Church and I will attend online. I was watching the National Indigenous Veterans Day celebrations yesterday and it reminded me that I had left out one part of the story of Edward's mother's Link Loyalist family going to Sorel, Quebec in the late 1780s during the midst of winter up through the Appalachians in upper New York State with one member of the group being eight months pregnant and it was members of the First Nations that guided these people from their burnt out homes in the Mohawk Valley to Sorel, Quebec through that wintery trek. Their devotion and aid to people is legendary and does them great honour as it continues to be.
Completely finished chromosome 6 and very satisfied with the result. There were such a large number of matches in that chromosome and I extracted two that were too small to be significant but I did file them in my "too small" file and they are still recorded in the database so can be readily discoverable and are visually apparent when one reviews the DNA Painter or the files. So in spite of the flu I did manage to work my way through that chromosome - I actually didn't think I would accomplish anything but the marvels of modern access let you do just about anything no matter what!
Chromosome 5 is less friendly with 101 matches. It lacks a lot of known matches although Pincombe is about 50% and Buller perhaps 50%, Blake closer to 33% and Rawlings absolutely none known to me although I need to work through them as, in particular Ancestry results have not necessarily been investigated. This chromosome is interesting because three lengths have been passed to five siblings unbroken (2 Blake and 1 Rawlings (as usual I have received a singleton Rawlings having been the largest recipient of Rawlings in the family at the mid 30 percentage hence my paternal grandmother has had a huge play in my inheritance although my maternal grandmother always said I reminded her of her mother and in this case I did also inherit strongly from Buller but closer to 30% (the anticipated with a perfect cross would of course be 25% from each grandparent coming down to me from my parents). Interestingly my one grandson is so much like Edward that I wonder how much of me is there in that child. But then both of my daughters looked exactly like their Dad when they were born (they have his very fair Germanic complexion whereas I have a British rosy complexion). I think that rather pleased him actually looking at his two daughters when they were infants although he would sometimes say they look a little like you (which made me laugh as they did not look at all like me but I was there; I carried them for nine months give or take (the first was 2.5 weeks early and the second one was three days early). I digress and continue commenting on Chromosome 5 and its look within a family of five siblings. I have only one cross over point and the maximum in this set is four crossovers. In total there are fourteen crossovers. The data set easily created with the crossover numbers anticipated by the Living DNA data. It was very quick work actually - sometimes I puzzle over it for a short while sorting through the possibilities. The matches will help to give the clearest picture. Again this is where you may spot discrepancies but one must realize this is not yet the exact science it will likely become in time.
I do believe I will complete these cross over points well before the end of November and perhaps even the re-phasing of my grandparents' DNA and possiily even begin work on my great grandparents' DNA. The next step will be to separate out the matches that will most enable that and this will be most readily obvious on the DNA painter charts that have been produced through the years for each sibling. Having selected the end time of the 1921 census as the latest records to be in the book I now need to look at the images I have from a few years back and see what I can locate that will assist me with the known Blake line at Andover headed up by Robert Blake who left his will in 1521 at Enham. He was very elderly at that time with his sons all married and many grandchildren and great grandchildren although he did not mention that many in his will. But he is the focus point for the Blake book at this time with regard to charting and finding anything about him that I am able is my aim over the next few months. There are interesting records certainly in this time frame and then my Blake line yDNA (contributed by two of my brothers) and at least one individual living in Australia whose test appeared way back in earlier 2000s (Sorenson Database). I will also be looking at John Pencombe at North Molton who arrived with John Lord Zouch in 1486. John Lord Zouch was attainted and I am not sure whether John Pencombe was his attendant or his perhaps restrainer might be the word to describe why he was sent by the King (Henry VII) to ensure that John Lord Zouch remained at North Molton. John Pencombe did have land in North Molton on the Lay Subsidy of 1524-27 and I have not yet been able to determine how he acquired that land as he is likely the John Pencombe from Pencombe, Herefordshire which borders Wales and this King Henry VII was born at Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire which is part of Wales. These two areas are not adjacent but they are not that far away from each other either so one can not make any assumptions with regard to proximity. This yDNA line is contributed to by my cousin and we share the Most Recent Common Ancestor Robert Pincombe married to Elizabeth Rowcliffe and they lived at Park, Bishops Nympton with their eight children (7 sons and 1 daughter of whom three emigrated to Canada/the United States, 1 died young, 1 died with his family coming to Canada in a shipwreck off the British coast), one went to Australia although his family remained in England in the London area, and two remained in England. The yDNA proved very interesting and will serve as a guide backwards in time perhaps as it does lead one to the Continent (present Belgium area) with the arrival of this family in England perhaps around the early 1100s. That will be my return to the books after this jaunt through DNA over the past half year or more. It actually did have a value with regard to the books and they needed to sit for a bit so that when I go back and read them I catch anything that I might have missed in the writing. the phasing of my great grandparents along with the matches that go with that particular phasing (namely Blake and Pincombe for the moment) will help me as I look at the census from 1841 to 1921. But for the most part I will be coming down from these ancient peoples that I have without anticipating where the links may or may not occur and that is the purpose of this work. I am going on both factual information and family lore and that has its bonuses and retractions. Plus I am doing it for my mother and for my paternal grandfather and I guess for myself but I have never been a person who centered totally on myself for whatever reason - just not my nature perhaps. Since I do not have this huge attachment to yDNA (none at all actually) I am less influenced as I write combing through the references leading me back in time to the location of these ancestral lines deep into the past which does fascinate me. My Blake line definitely being named as "deer-hunters" by Ethnoancestry and very early to the British Isles (one is thinking 8,000 to 12,000 years ago which would place them in a locale (this yDNA has its best matches greatly separated by thousands of years with the present peoples living in the Balkans where they likely wintered during the Last Glacial Maximum presumably as a possibility for a Lost Tribe of Israel given the attachment my grandfather (and my father) had to that thought that existed quite strongly in the latter part of the 18th century in Britain. Having heard it in my youth and popping into some portion of my brain which was not accessed for years and years since childhood it resurfaced as I discovered this was a thought that circulated during this time period of the late 1800s in England amongst scholars and certainly the teacher that my grandfather had in Upper Clatford was very much a scholar (the local priest) who constantly challenged his students and taught them many skills they would never really use for their life's work but it kept their minds always thinking and reading and being part of that stream of society that passed down to their progeny these thoughts producing in time likely more scholars dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.
Already 7:00 a.m. and past and it is lovely daylight and the reason that I hate day light savings time and would love to see it gone forever. Eliminating it would be so nice and I await that one of these days perhaps. It has nothing to do with any effect that the switchover has - I do not really notice particularly but the loss of light in the morning I really dislike. But I am a morning person and I actually understand people who prefer the night hours to work - it just isn't me.
One small breakfast already and will do my cooked breakfast shortly. The best way to gain back a couple of pounds is to eat two breakfasts spaced apart of course and since I arise at 5:00 a.m. most days it is easy to eat two breakfasts. Tea drank and solitaire puzzles to do. I only missed one day of my morning exercises in total in all of this.
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