Working on Chromosome 6 and with all the known matches this one is moving along very nicely thus far and I am up to the J forenames as I work my way through almost to the half way point. I have been adding Relatives in common to some of the matches especially on 23 and Me where the matches that are listed do share at least one length of DNA with the current tester. Since all grandparents are represented in the known list this chromosome has been a lot easier than some of the others and with 128 matches that is rather handy. Just five left to go and I will have set up the database and can then move back to writing as I have this lovely chart in excel that I can flip about as I wish to review matches against census in the 1800s and the ability to check on mother's maiden surnames in the databases.
I also want to start working on Edward's grandparents phasing as I feel that this is a project that is a go although my close relatives to him is limited to our daughters I have many many first, second and third cousins in his database which is handwritten but none the less extensive enough to help lead the path back to his grandparents. It may help to solve the mystery of his 2x great grandfather Isaac Kipp's parentage. I rather think his father is Henry Kipp who was a Quaker in Northeast Town area but proving that will be a bit difficult and going back from Henry though might be possible with Quaker records. We know that he matches the Kip line of New Amsterdam/New York so the endpoint or beginning depending on how you look at it is known namely Hendrick Hendricksen Kip where Kip is an added surname to distinguish several Hendrick Hendricksen families in New Amsterdam now New York City. We also have his marriage in The Netherlands and the baptisms of the children there. There is family lore and some written history but much of it is not based on fact and so Edward was busy working with a couple of researchers in The Netherlands in 2017-2019 but COVID struck before we made our trip there. Since my knowledge of Kipp is very limited I did not pick up the traces of that but with all the DNA testing being done around the world I may be able to tease out information at least on the American Colonial lines back earlier in time. We will see as I work on phasing the grandparents.
I feel this might lessen my reluctance to take apart the binders which proved to be a task too far for me at the time and I set it aside. The idea of taking apart someone's lifetime work putting together all these fourty lovely binders of his many activities through the 54.5 years of our marriage became something I just found difficult. But to save the family portion of it I do need to do it and it has to be me for sure. I did check to see if the Ottawa Branch of Ontario Ancestors (was Ontario Genealogical Society) would like the trips as I could easily put them into some of the surplus binders but they did not at this time however they are also digital so will not be lost if I now shred all of the prints. It is a difficult item really when you are working with prints of many people still living and all pictures have been named.
So some shoveling to do later and time for Church in just a few minutes. Another lovely Sunday in God's world and one would wish that all the world was at peace and every neighbour loving their neighbour as God asked. One can only pray for that and thank God for what He has given to us these many centuries of the presence of Homo Sapiens on this planet. We have been a successful people surviving many many catastrophic happenings especially in the last century.
Time for Church, tea drank and solitaire puzzles completed. Thank you God for all that You do in the world that You have given to us.
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