Moving on to the second cleaning day

 A bit late today and I am into the second cleaning day - the main floor. With all the snow and the slush there will be a little more cleanup around the front door for sure. But we have a good setup with book trays and a tree for coats which keeps it all there pretty much. 

Worked on Chromosome 8 and completed it yesterday with a little finishing up today. The section that I think is early American colonial in the Blake family continues that way in my calculations. Mixed in with that are some good matches in England and Canada in the present time. The only Blake in the Andover family that I know for sure was in colonial America was Joanne Blake married to Roberte Sedgewicke 6 Jan 1634 at St Marys Andover, Hampshire, England and none of these trees go back to this couple thus far plus I believe this is a Knight match on the great grandparent side.  There are many matches in common where I find the matches in Ancestry so this does appear to be a pile-up area exclusively for me in the Knight-Butt-Arnold-Ellis families from the Winterbourne, Dorset, England area. In the 1500s/1600s they were in Newfoundland area but one can see in the trees of some that they moved from there to the American colonies in the early 1700s. One strong match in the group goes back to John Butt and Jean O'Ford who married 14 Oct 1800 at Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England. In general their descendants are well known to me and it does make me think that this particular pile-up area may be regionally common as all of these families (Arnold, Butt, Ellis, Knight) that come from that general area in Dorset that I am able to locate on trees back that far namely in the Winterborne area, west, south and east of these many small villages. 

I will move on to Chromosome 7  and this one has lots of Pincombe matches, Blake and Rawlings somewhat fewer and no Buller matches where the individual matching are known to me. But there are some good lengths of the ones known to me. There are 77 matches in total and quite a few are from Ancestry as well as My Heritage, 23 and Me, FT DNA and Living DNA. 

Cloudy out today and apparently rain is possible. There is good snow cover and the temperature is 1 degree celsius. Perhaps no skiing for me again today we will see.

Must get some work done. Solitaire puzzles not yet done. The morning is passing quickly.