A very good working day yesterday and I found the replacement liner bags for the Shop-Vac so washed out the big tub of the vacuum and put in a new bag. I need to replace the filter and will do that soon but it was working very very well although still sounds like a jet engine when it is running. Does such a great job on the rug on the stairs though - it looks like new. Amazing really. The old vacuum will go out to the collection this Friday if they take them - have to check on that. I will get a new one but might wait a bit. This one is working very very well.
So today the main floor and will begin as usual around 9 am. This is budget day and I am looking forward to listening to that at Question Period on the Television. The hard times are ahead for sure as we free ourselves of dependence on trade with the United States. We will still trade with them and happily (we were not unhappy before all this started) but it will be different. We will trade with the rest of the world in a way that we never have and that will be good. It will be an incentive for different industries and provide new types of jobs especially for our young people. Life needs to be more active for all of us it is good to be very active. I always have at least 12,000 steps per day and some days as high as 18, 000 but we were meant to be moving about not sedentary. But the United States will still be our good friend and neighbour in our minds and when we are on solid ground once again here in Canada then our travel will probably go back as it was but right now we need every dollar spent in Canada to make work for our youth and keep us afloat. The cold days of the winter did draw us southward in huge numbers and it is unlikely that that weather pattern will change that much but the need to support our youth and our industries is huge and we will weather the cold days dreaming of the warmth again in the midst of winter one day in the future. When one loses a large branch off of a tree the tree is less stable until other branches replace that stability that was created by the original large branch. Our trade will be diversified around the world and in return we will have new products coming to our shores from theirs. Personally it is saddening as the mutual economic friendship between the United States and Canada was quite wondrous and lasted in a business way for two hundred years which is phenomenal. But I would still say we are overall best friends with the American people and always will be and in my case cousins as well. Barely a day goes by that I am not writing one of my American cousins and or a fellow researcher; we are closely linked on a personal level.
I worked on the matches for Chromosome 7 once again and slowly proving the cross over points. I am about half way through the matches and there are eight of the sixteen left to prove which works out well. It is not an exact science especially given that the contributing databases do not use the exact same testing points on each chromosome so one has to make small decisions that best suit the data when you get to deciding between two numbers side by side. It will be an exact science one day but that isn't at the moment we are still in the Citizen-Scientist stage of Family DNA. We may be there for quite a while actually or not; that is also hard to predict. I place great value on the introduction of DNA to genealogy and can see that it will continue to move to a more prominent position in how one looks at and creates one's family tree. It will be a communal thing as well with actual values deciding rather than word of mouth or even written documents from the past.
I had an interesting email from a family searcher in England probably writing off the top of his head perhaps who was looking for a picture that he thought I had put online at Ancestry. Checking my pictures I had not and let him know that and that he had misinterpreted my line (which is online at Ancestry) and wished him luck with his research. He wrote back to clarify his mis-statements and introduced a few more thoughts and I wait to hear again since he was going to check on it. Since he has not done his DNA there is considerably less interest on my part although I do respect people's genealogical endeavours. I just think they are incomplete without DNA evidence. It is amazing working with DNA and when I persuaded one of my daughters to test her DNA as a gift to her Dad he was thrilled to have a second person matching the people that he did and it brought a new look to the work that he was doing. After that he made the effort to be in contact with cousins from his youth and soon had a well rounded group of his cousins tested making the task even easier since our daughter was exactly the same as he was for 50% with the other 50% being me. That started a new and interesting relationship between Edward and his cousins as we met with them several times a year every year from 2013 on - great lunches over discussion on the growing tree that they all shared. Even field trips to the various cemeteries that they shared with their common ancestors. It was a fun time for Edward those teen years in the 2000s until COVID hit and his world dropped away from him. They were great sending him messages on the phone; writing emails and keeping each other stable in a world that had closed down but definitely it was a hard time for Edward as he missed all of that wonderful human interaction that he had enjoyed over the seven year period when he got back together with his cousins. Edward was definitely a people person although he also enjoyed the solitude that was more of our family type but he missed those wonderful busy times with his cousins for sure.
Waiting for the budget to be introduced into the Commons and the cleaning will occupy me whilst I wait.
Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next.
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