Reading an interesting post on 6000 year old DNA which was primarily 80% North African and 20% Mesopotamian. It is conjectured that movement out of Africa began 60,000 years ago but the numbers would have been small groups of hunter gatherers probably but we are also looking at a time when agriculture began in Mesopotamia. Fascinating research being done with DNA. I often wonder if the collected samples of Western Hunter Gatherers in the British Isles would get published one day. That being my Blake family line it is rather interesting to me. That my grandfather when he talked about his family described them as having been in the Andover for ever quite fascinating. When one looks at the yDNA in the area from Andover over to Basingstoke the frequency of Western Hunter Gatherer yDNA in the families is apparent. Why they would settle in this area is interesting but on our couple of trips in the area the land is very fertile and somewhat flat with good streams flowing through so one could see the attraction to stop and settle there. If indeed they were one of the Lost Tribes of Israel then there would have been a lot of peace in that area I suspect after all they went through in the south. I still am amazed at how much he talked about is there in writeups and discussed by genealogists regarding the work of Horatio Gates Somerby and the fraudulent histories of families that he produced for his American clients Blake being amongst them. But now in 2026 looking back on my childhood before my grandfather died in 1953 (although my father also, on occasion, did chat about it) and that is a period of 73 years ago that I sat and listened to my grandfather talk about the past. His stories went so far back because his great grandfather Charles Butt was still alive when he was a child and Charles was born in 1800. He talked and he talked and amazingly as I think back his stories do come to me as he repeated them so many times. It is amazing to have a feel for that much history in terms of times past.
Finished the cleaning yesterday and another work week ahead of me with four days to do research. I did almost complete the matches up to the end of the G's yesterday but I am still scratching the surface. There are a lot of matches. I spent some time looking at my spam just to see if I had missed anything the last couple of weeks but no; no missing messages in there. I actually do not get that much spam compared to the mail that comes into my mailbox.
Today will be a busy one and the sun is streaming through the window at the moment. I love it when the hot sun in the winter beats down on the back of the house. You can feel the heat that it sends in but it is just minus 9 degrees celsius today at 8:00 a.m. so the deep freeze is gone for a bit but could return; one never knows. The Polar Vortex has a mind of its own.
I actually have results now for two of the four great grandparent lines in the common area which is good news. It is this common area where as much as one third of the matches sit and I have eliminated a number of them because I did not collect quite enough information when I was downloading from 23 and Me. At the beginning I did not always note the close matches to that match and I can no longer access my two brother's accounts because they are deceased and I just haven't jumped through the hoops to get that set up. It is a process but I should have brought them into my account but didn't realize it at the time so a lesson learned for sure. But mostly I have other matches with siblings that offset that loss.
I still have to look at all the testing companies as I have not collected any new material for about six months. I have glanced and nothing huge came in but still some of the matches will likely be interesting. I do want to get started on the genealogical charts for the two books though and hope to do that early in April is the plan.
First set of exercises completed and I must have done a lot of extra walking as the cardio load was 51 and the time 1 hour and four minutes. I will do weight lifting at some point and running for thirty minutes. Back to that normal set of exercises for the rest of the week where the weight lifting is interchanged with rowing generally and hopefully some yoga. The days pass so very quickly.
Drinking tea and time to do the solitaire puzzles. I am now an Ace in the Sudoku puzzle set up. I wonder what is next.
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