I never grow weary of cleaning actually; it is a lovely redundant task that keeps one physically fit and the house clean week after week. When the dogs are here there is a lot more work to do for sure but they they are towards me friendly warm and loving and I enjoy their company. Perhaps in the future I will be enjoying all that lovely restful time with the dogs. They love the yard and it is full of snow which they will also love.
Yesterday I did have a look at Gedmatch but did not find anything new that I would use from the first kit I looked at. I will do more of that today. I still have a small amount to do on ancestry. I like to do them together because that is the only way you can look at the chromosomes on ancestry matches and not that many really move their kits to Gedmatch - I have no idea what the percentage would be in total but I find it to be around 5 to 10% of my database. Since they dominate the field with 28 million tests and possibly more that I AI and they may not have found the latest. Another interesting statistic shows that 53 million people have test across the four main testing companies but that doesn't include Living DNA which has a sizeable database as well. Considering there are 8 billion in the world this is just a drop in the bucket (less than 1% of the world's population). Mind you it is a higher percentage in North America where the testers predominate except for the British Isles and I do not know the percentage there that have tested with Living DNA. I know I have lots of matches there as well.
More contemplating of the Blake in South Newton and I will dig out all that information and construct a tree coming down using the wills from the 1600s on. Proving that they are from the Calne Blake family is the thought in all of this and South Newton is 47.6 kilometres to the south of Calne. I just sort of thought it was that family as the Calendar of Patent Rolls does have this family involved in various activities around this area south of Calne over into Somerset. Although actual connections may be difficult but word of mouth does cover the Somerset family to a certain extent and I need to pursue the South Newton group and see what is there. Of course this all goes back to my premise that the Calne Blake is actually the descendants of Richard le Blak who applied for a Market Permit in 1274 whilst living in Rouen Normandy and in the Pipe Rolls of Hampshire we do find a Richard le Blak family at Wargrave (near Windsor, Berkshire) and then a gradual movement to the west apparently (still to be proven but why would people randomly choose the name Blake - it really doesn't make sense to choose a name that other people have and really is not something that I could see any of my known English relatives doing) to Speen Berkshire and then to Hungerford Wiltshire and eventually ending up in Calne When You look at a map this is certainly a possibility. There are a number of le Blak individual on the Pipe Rolls at Wargrave and nearby Wargrave. It does make sense that a Norman would come to the British Isles with his commercial intentions and set up near Windsor where the King was. Anyway I still have two years slotted for this book and I am sure I will need every day of them. But as I said if I do not feel what I have found is conclusive I will publish what I happy with and the rest of the original book will be placed in the Library of the Guild of one-name Studies for academics and genealogists to regard in the future if they so wish.
The Pincombe book is falling into place as I am now looking at a new chapter before the genealogical descent charts. I am thinking I will put in the DNA chapter closer to the beginning of this book than I did in the Siderfin Book where it is basically at the end of the book. I place a high value on the DNA because it helps me to sort lines often enough. There are some lengths of DNA that simply persist on and on through families and leads them back to their MRCA just by the cousin matches.
Another day, tea all drank, snack eaten after exercises earlier, time to do Solitaire Puzzles, have breakfast, and later a nice run and lifting weights. Back into the regular days without cleaning.
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