Finished the cleaning of the main floor and realized I did not write my blog today. I completed Chromosome 16 and it was interesting as I put 24 of the matches into my Too Small folder and did not enter them into the great grandparent database. They had served a useful purpose at the time of collection but were inadequate to really show very much.
Knight, Blake, Pincombe, Gray, Buller were all well represented with both known and not known cousins, a number of Rawlings/Cotterill matches as well as Buller/Taylor. One of my Rawlings cousin did add some knowledge to the chromosome length but all of the Rawlings/Cotterill I will investigate. The Buller/Taylor is more of a challenge. Family lore tells me that Ellen Taylor had Irish heritage and certainly some of us show Irish Ethnicity but from the Republic of Ireland although some also from Northern Ireland but in a smaller amount and I suspect further back in the family line as I do know that I have distant cousins who were part of the 1772 Carolina group from Antrim, Northern Ireland. We share our mitochondrial DNA with them so is probably fairly distant but surprisingly does show up in the Ethnicity results. A number of the Buller/Taylor matches have quite distinct Irish surnames so an interesting time ahead looking at that.
Snowing again today and we are meant to get 5 to 10 centimetres and it does look to be gradually increasing. The more the merrier as a White Christmas is so lovely.
I will begin the 15th Chromosome later today and there are 85 matches with a few known matches, primarily at the end of the Chromosome. In this Chromosome I have the only length of Buller/Taylor from the beginning to 63 centimorgans. On this chromosome I have literally hundreds of matches over all the databases. They are large matches because there is a common area at the beginning of this chromosome. They tend to be Buller and live all over the world including a number in Europe in many different countries. I have not contacted any of these matches and in fact I seldom do contact matches unless they are close cousins. The lack of a lot of good cousin matches did not affect the phasing of the grandparents particularly; it seemed to be pretty straight forward and heavily on the Pincombe and Rawlings sides with very little Blake and mostly my length of Buller and one other but at the other end of the Chromosome. Interesting really how these chromosome flow in a family. I did ask my sister in law if I could test my niece in order to have half of my brother but she did not wish to do that. But five siblings tested is a huge amount of data and I must admit after asking her I was not sad that she didn't want to do that although it would have been nice to have that memory of my oldest brother for sure.
Not watching the news much although did notice that our GDP had decreased 0.3% in October. It will be a struggle to diversify our trading and increase that trade around the world and especially within Canada. We are starting to see products from the other provinces that we have never seen before. The canned salmon from British Columbia was excellent - a bit more expensive but can live with that; we need to become Tariff Proof and as soon as possible.
Time for lunch; the cleaning done once again. Always on Thursday I contemplate selling this house and I think the time will come sooner rather than later actually. I could manage a one floor much easier.
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