I didn't have a chance to work on Chromosome 8 yesterday as it turned out and I started into that right away this morning and completely forgot my blog. As I took my breakfast break I realized it and decided to write it now.
Another good skiing day yesterday (4.5 km) but today it is going to rain (or perhaps a little snow, it seems ambivalent in the weather forecast). Nevertheless it is very overcast and there is definitely melting out there. The streets are awash somewhat here and there.
Good work on Chromosome 8 earlier today and I have continued sorting out the mystery matches that are either Pincombe or Blake - I found many kits submitted to GedMatch which has made that sort easier. John Blake and Ann (Farmer) Blake had 54 grandchildren in the mid to late 1800s and their descendants are huge and all over the world. Combine that with the Pincombe line and in a similar time period Robert Pincombe and Elizabeth (Rowcliffe) Pincombe had eight children, 34 grandchildren and many many great grandchildren also all over the world. The matches continue to flow in and sometimes in the phasing when you see Blake and Pincombe and just one chromosome length it can be a huge sorting process. Other times they just fall right into place but this particular chromosome does happen to have a lot of singleton matches with Blake and Pincombe!
I discovered that I have acquired a lot more Blake matches on Ancestry in the trees - a couple of years ago I went through and marked all the ones that were descendant in my line but the number has increased enormously in that time period so will be doing that over the next while as I work on the Blake family tree in the 1700s/1800s and earlier and later.
Now must do my solitaire puzzles and then back to work on the matches.
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