Sunday, January 11, 2026

Sunday and continuing with Chromosome 8

 Another beautiful Sunday in God's world. The trees are covered with a fresh snow fall and off to Church online in a couple of hours. 

 Since there are only 64 matches for Chromosome 8 I did a little extra working on this length that appears to be either Blake or Pincombe. I have two matches that are definitely Knight and so part of the Blake grandparent line. One if from 23 and Me and the second is missing on My Heritage and perhaps deleted by the tester since the spring when I was last looking at it. I have nine matches on My Heritage that triangulate with each other on the Chromosome browser. One of the matches does point to Blake quite strongly. I have another twelve matches that do not appear to triangulate with these nine matches except one to one on occasion. I have one match from Ancestry (on Gedmatch) that triangulates with a number of these matches. Just trying to locate this match again on Ancestry as there may have been a slight adjustment of the naming of it as the two names that I am using do not bring up a kit. I will continue working away on these matches today as a few of them are from Ancestry and need to hunt out trees. I can phase these lengths with the knowledge that I have but it would be convenient to actually separate out all members of these two groups into Pincombe or Blake. 

It was a warmer day yesterday and we had a long walk since we need another snowfall to cover up the mess from the ice/rain mixture that we had since our last skiing. Last night we got about ten centimetres of snow so will see how that goes today. Perhaps out skiing at some point. 

As a country we continue trying to make ourselves tariff proof and this week our Prime Minister will be in China. Diversifying our trade is very much in our minds and we should have been doing it the last sixty years. But we also enjoyed our trade deals with our friend and neighbour the United States. So we continue to work away at that and it has been productive. This is winter in Canada though and everything is just a little more difficult with the weather. 

Time to make tea and then solitaire puzzles.  

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