My least liked outing yesterday as we made the rounds of the Farmer's Market (excellent vegetables), then the grocery store and that went pretty smoothly (a list makes that short work), but then we still had two more places to go. The first accomplished of those two and then the latter one we ended up at St Laurent Plaza looking for a particular couple of items although I regretted not just going to Place as it is closer but we found them and 2.5 hours later we were on our way home again caught in Rush Hour traffic. No more shopping for a bit; I really do dislike shopping.
Some work on the matches on Living DNA and I have now completed the first 4 of 50 pages of matches sorted on genetic distance. There are four sorts which are probably more than adequate but missing the one sort that I really like on the other sites - sorting by the largest single centimorgan result. But I do like the features on the Living DNA site and I realize that British people who possibly predominate the site it appears to me look at DNA differently from North Americans likely. Because all of my relatives are going to be British descendant with a few slightly different ones but still primarily have some British ancestry my results resemble those of British people more than say American/Canadian but reading the Living DNA site results is different from the other databases as you have a set of Islands (and when I am referring to British in this instance I am including all of those islands in the British Isles which includes the Irish Republic) that has sent people around the world but in general the flow of DNA is fairly constant in the British Isles with incoming variety that gradually works its way into the population and basically disappears into that population over the generations. I went to page 7 of the matches out of curiosity displayed as genetic distance and the second person on this page is primarily of British heritage likely by the surname but that doesn't always hold true and he matches my Pincombe line on both of his shared chromsome lengths (in total he matches four out of five siblings on both and five out of five siblings on just one). So in theory I still have a ways to go before I run out of data that is meaningful to my search. Plus I have only pulled data for one sibling namely myself but there are far fewer singleton matches to any sibling in this database thus far which is different from the other databases where a single sibling sometimes is the only match out of five for individuals that do not have 100% British DNA inheritance. We all, my siblings, have inherited on occasion an unbroken chromosome from one or other of our grandparents and the number of times this has occurred is striking actually looking at five siblings but that is one of my reasons for wanting to also do my great grandparents as we have endogamy in two lines - Routledge (two 3x great grandparents were 2nd cousins once removed in a family line which tended to always marry cousins) and Knight/Butt where a number of siblings in several generations married their cousins (not always first or second) but it does mean that you have sticky pieces that are actually from different lines of a named family but appear to be solidly passed but not in reality when you really look at the passage of material. Further back we have two Blake cousins marrying in the 1500s and again in the mid 1600s thus increasing the lengths of chromosomes passed. Interesting really as in this generation we have all married into entirely different DNA backgrounds although limited to European inheritance which includes early Colonial America with my husband and my son in law with his 95% French ancestry including early Quebec ancestry and a few links to First Nations through the centuries. DNA is really quite fascinating and will be the centerpiece of medical research in the future.
Politics here in Canada continue to be interesting as the Throne Speech has now passed the house successfully - given the temperature of the electorate anything else would not have been forgiven and would ensure a Liberal majority. Eighty five percent of Canadians voted to follow the platforms of the Liberal and Conservative parties and they were very similar so lets get the job done and stop grandstanding. The new Prime Minister is very interesting in that (unlike earlier ones in this century he does not grandstand but rather follows the team approach which is rewarding - I just need that approach to be economically sound given the last administrations by the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau). On with the show; shovels in the ground and work happening to build this economy back up after the years of free trade with the United States. I actually had no problem with the free trade (life was reasonable) but it decimated our local industries through the years (the Americans who bought them out then went off shore because they didn't want to pay high wages in the United States to their employees in their greed for more money decimating the American economy) and we need to rebuild our economy along with pipelines and other energy needs to create this national energy corridor and free ourselves from any dependence on any country. Canada is a powerhouse of natural resources and human ability - lets get this show on the road. Parliament could consider working through the summer for a change and speed it all up. Who actually gets three months holidays plus every year! If I see that they are working in their ridings then that works or doing research that is valuable use of the money that I pay in taxes but otherwise they could be in Ottawa getting things done. The situation is urgent.
Tea drank and solitaire puzzles next then into DNA research once again. Some exercise breaks and no more shopping - done with that for sure for a few days. Perhaps some gardening if the smoke is gone. It descended last night for a bit.