Yesterday was a very efficient cleaning day I must admit. The old vacuum is out in the garage waiting for Collection Day. The Shop Vac is doing the job although I do need to buy a new one; the noise is incredible from a Shop Vac. It is handy though that I had that at hand when the other vacuum burned out. I do hate shopping and generally save it all up for a shopping trip. I haven't reached that point yet. It may come one of these days.
Set up Chromosome six for the crossover points using the Living DNA data. The changes thus far quite insignificant but are clearing away a few spots where the number seemed a bit flaky so that is good. This particular chromosome has many many cousins known to me as matches so really good coverage for all four of the feeder lines (namely my grandparents). All of us are well represented and again there is one complete chromosome without a crossover and one with just a short chunk on one end. Everyone has three or four crossover points. The chromosome has 130 matches so will take a bit of time to work through. There are 15 cousins in total on this chromosome with us, primarily third cousins so sharing 2x great grandparents which is very handy.
I must get back to the photo books and finish checking the index for the first book. Then I can move on and it will be somewhat faster as there are indexes for the remainder of the 39 books. Edward always made indexes which is great. I do want to ensure that these books are in a suitable condition that they will be treasured through the years as he put a lot of himself into producing them. Removing the non-family portion (which was a huge section from the late 1980s on with the building of Orleans United Church where he was Treasurer for the Church itself, a separate treasurer was in charge of the construction portion, then his work on Gene-O-Rama at the Ottawa Branch and all the other activities there created a lot of pictures in these books. Plus all that traveling when he and George Anderson created bus tours into upper New York State and later down along the Hudson River. The books are a story of his life; something he lacked for his father's life with few pictures although more discovered over time. I would say that as he aged he wanted to be more and more like his father (started around the time that he completed his PhD but wasn't able to get the job that he wanted and went back and got yet another degree, MLS, which got him a job). In truth his life did resemble his father's somewhat; Edward loved gardening (his father was a farmer), Edward loved being involved with the Church in the Choir and as Treasurer (his father was treasurer; no idea on the choir) and we discovered more things about his father as Edward talked to the people who worked for as a child in his early teens. His mother did gradually talk more about his father but you seldom heard his brother say anything (he was ten when his father died).
Tea drank and solitaire puzzles to do.
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