Today the top floor and then a return to Research well once the Christmas festivities are past that is. Lots of snow yesterday and our White Christmas is for sure. Even the trees are coated with lovely white snow all along the branches. quite beautiful looking out the window and it is just minus 5 degrees celsius but feels like minus 13 degrees celsius.
Contraction of GDP by 0.3% in October will be offset by all the Christmas spending in November and December hopefully. Winter is upon us and we are importing a lot these days because there is not much growing in Canada although our green house business has grown a lot in the last decade.
Continued working on Chromosome 15 which I started yesterday. The beginning of this Chromosome is interesting as I have a lot of matches in this area (which should also include one of my brothers but they tend not to do so and they are large matches in the 30 to 40 centimorgan range. They look like Buller rather than Rawlings which are my choices. Most of them are American colonials dating back into the at least 1700s some with lengthy trees and the traceback is generally to the south eastern colonies. This is a pile up area or common area so I do tend to ignore it as I do have a couple of known matches in this area. Interesting though to have so many and they number in the 100s. I am still in the beginning stages of looking at this chromosome from a great grandparent basis. The suspicion that it could be Irish or Scot Planters to Northern Ireland (mid 1600s) in ethnicity remains (particularly because the pile-up area does trace back into the Carolinas, Georgia and the states that many of these individuals moved to as they fanned out across into the Appalachians in the late 1700s and early 1800s). There are 84 matches now and six in the "too small" file which also includes matches that I do not feel will be useful in my quest. There are still 73 to do.
Chromosome 15 has always been somewhat of an enigma - every grandparent fairly well represented although Rawlings does predominate in the paternal descent with Pincombe doing the same in the maternal descent. Just the way that DNA was passed with that chromosome. Mostly 2 or 3 crossovers for every sibling on this chromosome. Known cousins number eight in total and the Rawlings in the common area is a 3rd cousin so quite helpful. The end of the Chromosome very well known with two fourth cousins and it is Buller. No known Pincombe on this chromosome although that may change as I work my way through. Blake also well known at the end of the chromosome and it is the Knight family. So all in all I may learn a lot as the Buller is that and not Taylor. Taylor has proven to be the hardest one to locate and that line remains Taylor going back several generations with Ellen (Taylor) Buller's father likely being Thomas Taylor back to Samuel Taylor and then another Samuel Taylor - if the family is Irish they have been in England since the 1700s. The mother of Ellen (Taylor) Buller likely Ellen (Roberts) Taylor also in England back into the mid 1700s. It is one of my weakest lines actually.
I still have to check for new matches and must put that on my agenda to do.
Time to make tea, I am late today for sure.
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