I did complete Chromosome 1 yesterday and I knew I couldn't resist working on the re-phasing of my grandparents. I did the first three chromosomes. I set up a slightly different set up using Excel instead of Powerpoint. Powerpoint really isn't set up to do this type of table although I liked it early on but gradually could see the advantage of using Excel so I did start that. I still have to work on Chromosome 23 and will probably do some of that today. When this is all completed and I have recorded everything I will give it to my siblings in case they have a descendant that is interested but my daughter will also maintain the files in her lifetime just with regard to actually making sure the files still work! She has her own items to work on. Once I have finished that will be all that I will do likely. I am more interested in constructing these books and will use all of this information as I prepare the family trees.
Continued today working on the chromosomes and I have discovered a slight blip in Chromosome 7 as I rephase. I will have to re-look at it but the matches do not appear to be there to truly reveal the slight blip. We will see how that goes. I have three sets of crossover data and will see whether there is a blip or not since I can compare the five siblings (thus far nothing points to a change but I have only checked one sibling whose crossover point just didn't quite strike me as correct - fussy old woman I guess. Sometimes it is perhaps how the test flowed for one sibling as occasionally I will see a slight difference between companies in how they interpret the data primarily because they use different points. When whole genome becomes universal then these blips will disappear as there is really only one result that is correct. But as I said this is not yet pure science it remains as citizen science where the proof relies on incomplete information in some cases simply because not all the companies choose the same testing regimen.
This is also basement cleaning day and I shall go and start the robot to do its chore on the rugs. They are old rugs now although considering I have run on them for years and they had a family of four and their friends on occasion moving around on those rugs they barely look worn. But they were good rugs and I will take them with me when we move. It was one of the first items I bought when I went to work proofreading at home in the early 80s. My a long time ago now and wages were significantly smaller in those days. I never drove the car anywhere that did not involve my work and my husband biked to work and our children walked to school or took a bus. Although I eventually did have two trips a day to take my oldest daughter to Middle School and back in her last year there. It was quite simply a better idea and we could stop and shop at stores and so two trips a day were not part of my working regimen. I used to record all those things; amazing really. But I am that sort of a person and completely converted my husband who did not keep accounts at all when I first knew him. I taught him to do bookkeeping and he was Treasurer at his United Church for around ten years. He loved doing that as his father had done that at his Church. It was sort of a memory thing for him as he went through life since he did not get to have his father after two years of age when his father died in a farming mishap.
Tea drank and must go and start the Robot; checking to make sure it is fully charged although I do glance at it through the week these days as it does slow me down to have to charge before I use it.
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