Being at Church on Epiphany Service always reminds me of my father's story concerning the 12 days of Christmas and the Wisemen/Kings bringing their gifts to the Baby Jesus. When he as a child in England he said they always went to visit his Blake grandparents for Epiphany at least that is how I recall it. But it was a long trip in those days from Eastleigh to just south of Andover at Goodworth Clatford. His grandparents had moved from Upper Clatford sometime in the late 1890s to Goodworth Clatford. The chorister was particularly excellent for this service. They are all extremely capable the Choristers in the Christ Church Cathedral Choirs.
A quiet day Sunday and once again we never made it out of doors - it was very cold here and this morning it is a warmer minus 17 degrees celsius but there is a warming trend coming and likely we will ski most of the week if the weather holds and we get all that snow that is mentioned on the Weather Channel. I am all set up once again on a two year contract with Rogers - I really like Rogers and have been with them since the early 2000s. They provide excellent and timely service whenever I need anything which is rare. Other companies come to my door (I no longer answer as I am busy working and have thought about putting a note on the door but decided just to treat it as my workplace and only answer when I have requested the individual come). Mind you I do glance out the window in case it is a municipal officer coming for one reason or another but that does not occur in my memory unless I asked them to come. So would be leery of that probably.
I worked on Chromosome 8 and it is flowing along with a few removals of matches that are simply too small or ambiguous. Chromosome 9 is completed but has a few questions that I will need to do working on the trees for various matches. There are 68 matches for Chromosome 8 and I have eight known cousins matching many with really good lengths for three of the four grandparents. Pincombe does not have a known match although I do have a number of likely Gray matches that just need me to review their trees most at Ancestry although also at My Heritage which also covers FT DNA and I also have Find My Past. Rawlings is particularly well covered with second cousins as is Buller with third cousins. Blake falls neatly into Blake and Knight with that particular cousin. So continuing work on Chromosome 8 and I am contemplating how to begin phasing my husband's grandparents. I need to find his files that he created for his autosomal DNA especially his work on 23 and Me. The Ancestry I extracted for him including any found in Gedmatch. FT DNA he also managed and was just getting into My Heritage and asking for me to extract his cousins matches there and that was in process (his matches are all in my account on My Heritage). It appears to be doable and I will see how it goes. Probably blog the progress as I move along with that.
Cleaning day today and it is the top floor. I will start that in a while as I sip away at my tea and time to move to the Solitaire puzzles to work the brain. Breakfast after that.
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