Being offline is always an interesting experience; one is off the grid so to speak and it leaves you feeling independent of the world for a moment in time. But always close to God; God is in our heart and our mind and always with us in this world that He created. The winds were strong last night; you could hear them even over the sound of the game that my daughter and I were playing on the big screen. We are at Chapter 23 I think it was and there are 37 Chapters. I am looking forward to it being completed; I like finished tasks that is my way. Have I enjoyed it; it is has been interesting but I feel lost in it because I do not know the direction or the path but perhaps that is good sometimes to not know the ending. One must work through the various levels building and creating and one feels happy when each level is achieved which is like life really and so the games perhaps teach our young about life. There are pitfalls and there are successes and one learns from both.
The Blake Newsletter is published and viewable. It was the usual chattering on my part about the Andover Blake Book but an email from a Blake descendant of the Mayo Blake family was part of the discussion. There is a truth in DNA that no one can deny and I think that that is part of our path in life that God has set us on. We are going to know the very truths of everything and then perhaps we can find peace in our world. Does truth lead to peace? I think it can if that is what is desired. When greed for money and possessions is prominent can peace exist. I think when the consuming desire for wealth and riches passes from our world then we can have peace. All of us are equal on this earth and all of us inherit this earth at our birth; that is what the Creator said and we must follow His commandment that we love our neighbour as ourself and that is truly the path to peace.
Good work on Chromosome 8 yesterday although I am still ambivalent about this set of Blake or Pincombe matches extending from 78,043,790 to 120,188,941 on the chromosome. The distraction is the known family history of the matches which does tend to be northern England, southern Scotland and leads one's mind towards the Gray side of the Pincombe/Gray split. Blake and Knight are predominantly in southern England although the Knight family moved to the Lancashire area in the 1800s working in the woolen mills. The length varies between 20 and 35 centimorgans in the many descendants carrying this particular section of Chromosome 8. Some have deep American colonial ancestry with their origins unknown in their trees as written up (endogamy in the Routledge or Knight family comes to mind in this case as these families were very large and often enough amongst some of the earliest trekking off to the British colonies). Looking at the two siblings most affected the length of Blake is a singleton chromosome for both and the length of Pincombe runs from 60 to 140 centimorgans and 73 to 146 centimorgans for the second one. The other three do not share this length to any degree except for me and I have Pincombe from 17 to 73 centimorgans and 124 to 146 centimorgans. It is intriguing and does rather occupy one's thoughts as the various matches are regarded whilst I study the known information on each individual. But today I will just continue sorting because the internet is down for the moment and that lets me look at them differently actually yielding more insight some times.
Drinking my tea and solitaire puzzles. Time to get moving and do some exercise.
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