Yesterday I spent the day pulling the new matches from Living DNA. They have to be closely examined because I have so many cousins in England (in general I would say most of my Blake cousins live in England) and a goodly number of my Pincombe cousins. Then there are all the other lines that go back from that marriage of a Blake and Pincombe here in Canada. Less details for these matches although I do subscribe to Find My Past and there are trees there as well. But it is where they match me that I want to see as I can mostly slot them into their great grandparent line that we share although many times I can not separate the great grandparent couple yet. That process is coming slowly as I work away at it. My great grandparents as mentioned were all born between 1837 and 1859. Their location of birth being Upper Clatford, Hampshire; Turnworth, Dorset; Kimpton, Hampshire (possibly); Kimpton, Hampshire; Molland, Devon; London Township, Upper Canada; Birmingham, Warwickshire, and Birmingham, Warwickshire.
It did take the entire day to extract these matches as I reviewed the first 22 pages of each of the five siblings. I am looking forward somewhat to not doing that anymore and will have to think of contingency plans on what to do with all of these results into the future. I actually, at this time, do not think any of my siblings or their descendants are interested but time will tell. I know my daughters have virtually no interest in doing this work although they do like to hear results on occasion. But then they always felt like genealogy took their Dad away from them so it doesn't have a good feeling to it even yet. They miss him very much.
Today's work will be to draw out the information from FT DNA, My Heritage and 23 and Me where I just collected the names and did not create the files. Then a check on Ancestry to look at the new matches (these tend to increase daily I sometimes think). Although in my case the total number of matches for myself and three siblings are in the range of 17,000 to 23,000 compared to my husband with his huge number of American cousins at 35,000. That is interesting actually as it changed over the last ten years when my matches and those of siblings tended to be between 5,000 and 8,000. Interesting but then I was thinking there were more when I was collecting lately. I have American cousins but not in very large numbers compared to Edward but his latest arrivals in Canada were his Rathbun/Niles family in the early 1830s. I have a few second cousins, more third cousins and probably a lot more fourth and continuing back even to eighth and ninth because of endogamy in my Routledge, Knight and Blake lines. Whereas when we went to the Rathbun Reunions in the United States memories of William Rathbun were still known and he was mentioned as having "an itchy foot" which sent him off to Upper Canada as it was known at that time with his wife and I am not sure how many of the children were born here. I need to look at that.
But it is another glorious Sunday with a shadow on it somewhat as shots were fired last evening at the Gala Dinner that the President of the United States was speaking at. He was rushed off stage by the Secret Service and the gun holder tackled and taken out by the Secret Service. Wonderful that the Secret Service was able to prevent such an act of violence. Peace in our time is the wish and thankful prayers that all went well.
Off to Church in a bit online as always. I really should get out more and that will soon happen but not quite yet. I also have the washing to do this afternoon and will rest my eyes quite a bit today as they were pretty tired last night.
Tea all drank and time to do my Solitaire Puzzles. The new matches on Ancestry total 25 in two months although in total there were a lot more matches than that going back to 21 cM and down to 8 cM. I do not collect these but I do look at them if we share a common ancestor. Sometimes I do a search for Blake and that pulls up some of these tiny matches but with the use of Timber then 8 cM can be a larger match but there are only so many hours in the day and my eyes can only do so much so I do put limitations on my searches for sure.
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