Matches dominated

 Just Living DNA to finish now as yesterday saw me go through the others although I am still drawing out the data for some of them as I made lists at the time. Not a lot of new ones because I am getting pickier about the ones that I select to put into my files. I will get back to my Latin probably tomorrow and working on the old wills. All of this will come together as I start the Genealogical Chart for Blake. I am still contemplating Robert Blake who left his will in 1521. 

It has kept me from writing the end to the Somerby Chapter as I think about it. I need to continue working on the Latin  transcription of these two wills and that will occupy me for a while now I think although in between I will get the rest of these matches into their files and then sorted and entered into the big chart that will be my focus whilst I do the generational chart for Blake. 

Beautiful day yesterday and I went out and picked up more wood in the back yard. I may have it all now. Everything is coming up and it is nearly the end of April. the budding seems late this year but coming. The trees are very slow this year surprisingly although it was cool and they do like that burst of heat to get the budding going. The yard looks old to me now. I started in the spring of 2011 to work in the garden full time as Edward could not. Gardening has never been my thing and now fifteen years later I believe I am worked out for gardening. I shall get as much of it into grass as I can. 

A couple of good matches came out of my looking at Gedmatch so will get those entered into the table perhaps today. We will see how the day flows. These are my four working days on research although I generally do not do very much on Sunday. 

Salmon for dinner and it was a lovely piece along with sweet potato and peas and a slice of tomato. It was delicious and there is enough of the salmon for tonight and tomorrow lunch. I like doing it that way and spread the salmon out although I could not eat that big a piece at one sitting ever. I find that about $10 worth of salmon goes a long way actually.  

The European Union has proposed an alternative route to Hormuz Strait for shipping oil and they will meet with the Middle East countries to work on that. After all pipelines work very well and Turkey and Syria have ports on the Mediterranean which is a direct route to Europe. An interesting idea for sure. Pipelines continue to be the safest way to move oil and gas (more fragile than a ship for sure but the containment and transport can be much more direct).  However shipping a long way is still likely ships. I do think Europe is very innovative and the European Union has stood the test of time and change very well. Remembering the bombed buildings in newsreels when I was a child going to the show with my grandfather and brothers and then seeing the rebuilt  Europe as an adult years later was an experience over time for me. Europe has also proposed that they would  help with this rebuilding. We have an enormous amount in common with Europe as we are a multilingual country (many First Nations languages, French and English). I must get back to my French lessons just to keep that more current. I was doing quite well when I was working. It has been lucky for me to be living in an area that lets me keep up my French although certainly not fluent like our French neighbours or for that matter my son in law who is French-Canadian going all the way back to early Quebec and even the first settlement in New Brunswick. Oil and gas continue to be a very important product for any country as there is wealth attached to these products and spreading it around more never hurts. They are a timely item though as greening the planet is better in the long run but in the short haul businesses and people in their homes need energy.

Today continuing with the Living DNA matches and then extracting the list that I made from the various databases and entering that into my databases including the large one which I will use for the genealogical tables. The construction of this table will take the longest time. I have a table for my line going back but now I will bring in the lines that are adjacent to mine living in the Andover area going back (I do have a lot of material available in my database for these lines but I have never put them together other than in my Legacy file). There is a bottleneck so to speak in my line between 1709 and the late 1700s. Thomas Blake  (second born child of John and Elizabeth Blake, a sibling one year older died as an infant) was baptized 21 Feb 1685 at Andover St Mary. He married Mary Spring 6 Nov 1708 at Andover St Mary. Their only child Thomas was baptized 4 May 1709 at Andover St Mary. He married Ann Carter 8 Dec 1728 at Penton Mewsey Holy Trinity and they baptized two sons Joseph 21 Oct 1730 at Andover St Mary and Thomas 19 Sep 1734 at Andover St Mary (Thomas (infant)was buried 22 Dec 1734 at Penton Mewsey Holy Trinity). Joseph married Joanna King 8 Jun 1757 at Upper Clatford All Saints (priest made note that Joseph was of Andover) and they had five children although even at this point the bottleneck was still evident until Thomas (the youngest child and second of that name as his older brother died at the age of six before the second Thomas was born) married Sarah Coleman 10 Jun 1792 at Upper Clatford All Saints. They had ten children and a very large number of grandchildren and on and on. It is amazing that but for one child per generation for several generations my line would have died out and now it is a very large family around the world. Sorting out the siblings of Thomas baptized in 1685 is a process I must do although I do again have quite a bit of information having transcribed the entire set of registers in that area of Andover including Andover St Mary itself. 

My grandfather would have loved this for sure but that was a different time and in a different place. He and his siblings used to go up on Bury Hill near their house which was a high point I gather and it did appear so although we did not spend a lot of time in Upper Clatford. Mostly we were at the Church and then down to Goodworth Clatford where my great grandparents lived after Edward (my great grandfather) retired. He loved Upper Clatford and used to run from Goodworth Clatford to Upper Clatford and back again in the days after he moved apparently. He had lived there all of his life. I think it is exciting to know some of these details of my great grandparents. My grandfather had known a number of his great grandparents on both sides of his family.  

Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles are next