More matches

 Yesterday was a shopping day and quite successful. The store has Canadian Flags on all the Canadian merchandise; saves my eyes although I still check. But it does quite capture the items readily that I have been moving to over the last year and a bit. I do miss my favourite cranberry juice as the Canadian one has apple juice in it as well but I also like apple juice but it does weaken the rather pungent taste of cranberry which I rather like. Overall I buy only what I have to buy from outside of Canada just because we are a northern nation with snow on the ground six months of the years and a much shorter growing season than other countries of the world. When you talk the frozen north that is a lot of Canada although the sun is finally coming our way. 

Worked on the matches yesterday and this last set have all been in the Buller line. They are large and I suspect the piece of DNA being passed is ancient in the Buller line. I have been looking at trees and the area is common to my line and this goes back to the Buller-Welch 3x great grandparents namely Christopher Buller and Mary (Beard) Buller of Bermondsey, Surrey and William Welch and Sarah (Cheatle) Welch of Rugeley, Staffordshire/Birmingham, Warwickshire and Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. They do seem quite a distance apart these two couples but Henry Christopher Buller came to Birmingham and had his businesses in both London and Birmingham, living, in one or the other place.   My suspicion is that this length of DNA I am looking at for more than a dozen descendants is from the Welch line rather than the Buller but I could be mistaken as I have not yet resolved whether this Buller line is from the Cornwall/Devon/Somerset Buller family. I think it is but I am not positive. Christopher Buller had a Slop Shop (sailor uniforms) on Tooley Street in Bermondsey just south of the Tower Bridge and connects London Bridge to St Saviour's Dock.  We were on our first tour bus in England and actually in London itself when I was looking out the window and we sat up so high and came so close to the street sign that I could actually read it and it said Tooley Street where I knew my Christopher Buller had had his shop. I was amazed and needless to say the next trip to London saw us arriving a week early so that we could walk the streets of London - it is just one square mile after all. We spent a lot of time looking around Bermondsey as well our hotel was just up the street from Waterloo Station. 

I found a number of new Buller line (looking purely at Grandparent (my maternal grandmother was a Buller)) matches in all the databases and knew the chromosomes that I especially was interested in. Going back to the great grandparents continues to feel feasible. I will continue with that sorting and entering today.  

Continuing to avoid the news for a bit as I tend to get too much into it and lose time on books. Concentration must be paramount to complete these books in a timely fashion. 

I did however have one thought on the Sovereign Wealth Fund which has been proposed to be started with an infusion from the government of $25B and it would be primarily individual Canadians building this fund. Since it would be an initial infusion by the government adding to the national debt I would suggest that we should not restrict it solely to Canadian individuals but rather have Canadian businesses and Canadian Pension Funds also be part of the Sovereign Wealth Fund as they could create the initial $25B (spread out over many business/pension funds) and Canadians could add to it as well with their money then all actual and not an increase in the national debt as it is used to invest in major projects. Not including businesses/pension funds takes away a sufficiently large portion of potential donors who could help to start this fund off in a positive position for immediate usage in funding national projects. It would remain in the public forum with a board of directors that reflected the various inputs from both individual Canadians, Canadian Pension Funds and Canadian companies. We are all going to benefit in the long run from this Fund and businesses in particular will benefit greatly with the increased GDP overall for Canada. 

I gave this some thought and actually looked on line and there is a thought with some non-governmental agency   that Canadian Pension Funds could also be part of this. I suppose the problem with including private industry might be conflict of interest if they are bidding on a project. But I still think some industries would not be bidding on mines and items like that and I thought this was the idea for the money that it would be national projects. However, we will let the Globe and Mail run with it. It just popped into my head while I was writing my blog earlier. I should check before I write things.  

Breakfast eaten and my first set of calisthenics completed before breakfast. A good couple of hours of work and then a thirty minute run. 

Solitaire puzzles to do next.