Forging ahead with Living DNA results extraction

Getting used to a site is part of the entire process; minimizing the number of times that you look at each item perhaps the most important but it does take a bit of time to get used to each individual site. I have extracted fifteen matches from Living DNA looking at myself and the process will continue today. For the most part I can assign them to one of my four grandparent's lines based on the matches in common and my own phasing of my grandparents done five years ago. In the eleven years since I first phased my grandparents the changes have been fairly minimal primarily cosmetic. A couple of new matches that are interesting particularly in the Buller line. Matches in this line tend to be from the Commonwealth countries although there are also a number of them in the United States as well. In this line I suspect there is a pretty clear division between Buller and Taylor but I do not always have that figured out for every chromosome. For the Pincombe-Rew I have a number of clear distinctions and also for the Blake-Knight looking at my great grandparents. I haven't made an effort yet in the Cotterill?-Rawlings lines although will likely work on that through this process. I have been through 46 matches now in my account and will likely do the first 100 to 125 by advance checking but one never knows for sure until one gets there! Then I will move on to the brother that least matches me as this tends to catch most matches to the five sibling group that constitutes this research study. I will use my account at Find My Past to look at some of these matches as they do have trees now and it is primarily a United Kingdom site but has a worldwide searching ability through their records. 

Prayers continuing for those affected by the fires here in Canada (looking at a map entire areas are in a danger zone). We have had a lot of rain but it has been accompanied by lightning which is a problem in the hot dry season in the west. But as always our Military is helping a great deal with transportation of those forced to evacuate. The firefighters try to preserve the settlements and save as many homes as possible; their hours are long and prayers for them as well and our military personnel aiding all of them. 

Today the Prime Minister and the Premiers of the Provinces/Territories meet to discuss priorities in our move towards abolishing our inter provincial/territorial restrictions between them within Canada and to look at and review projects that will help to increase our usage of Canadian paths to better economic use of our own products and get that process started as soon as possible - shovels in the ground so to speak. The pace is fast but our youth is up to it for sure. This will be their opportunity to shine and gradually assume the responsibilities and benefits of being the wage earners in our country utilizing our own products within our own borders and also producing for trade around the world. 

Sunday and Church at Loughborough and this is home county for my Cheatle family of Leicestershire along with Ashby de la Zouch.  I have a number of very good matches with my 4th and 5th cousins in the Cheatle line. Sarah Cheatle married William Welch 24 Aug 1818 at Longdon by Lichfield Staffordshire although she was baptized at Ashby de la Zouch. They eventually moved to Birmingham and had a restaurant at the corner of Lower Temple Street and Dale End. My Buller family lived close by to the restaurant. I actually corresponded recently with a descendant of the Withers-Welch family and their Welch ancestor  Sarah who was a twin to my 2x great grandmother Anne Welch. As a result of the twinning we are excellent matches much larger than the usual 4th cousins. 

Church livestreamed at my own Church and at Loughborough and will attend both. I do love going to Church and the idea of Church online for old people is a great idea I think (or any age if they want to watch rather than be present or it just works out better for their schedules). As a child I often attended twice on Sunday; once at early communion with my father and later at the morning service where I did teach Sunday School in my teen years. 

Tea finished, solitaire games played and breakfast soon.  

 

Rain beautiful rain

 Poured with rain yesterday evening and the trees show it as they quickly swell up and fill the sky. This year may see all of the view from my window obscured by trees. Still a little sky peeking through but not very much. the air conditioner does not run very much these days probably because of all the trees - they do tend to act as a cooling agent around us. 

Finished all the Gedmatch material and on to Living DNA. Like the other databases you have to work on one sibling at a time and I have decided to start with myself as is pretty usual. I had initially put one large match into the Buller family but I began to wonder as I was sorting but gradually I can see that it does belong there but I actually have no idea who this person is. I did write years ago now which is rare in itself but did not hear back. I have played a little with that data - I am the largest match which isn't unusual in the Buller line but I suspect it is my great grandmother Ellen (Taylor) Buller's line rather than Buller family itself. My Irish mapping appears to be from the Republic of Ireland rather than Northern Ireland which is very interesting but the mt DNA matches with several people who were on the Expedition headed by the Reverend William Martin to the Carolinas from Antrim in Northern Ireland in 1772 matches our line perfectly. So I am suspecting that this Taylor line was originally from Ayrshire/Argyllshire which is the location suggested for our mutations in mtDNA in the Blood of the Isles Database. There are a couple of matches that belong to people who trace back to a smaller migration from Ayrshire/Argyllshire down into the Cumberland area and then on to Birmingham, England. The father though of Ellen Taylor does appear to be Thomas Taylor and her mother Ellen (Roberts) Taylor who married 29 Jun 1857 at St Martin Birmingham. I did have a descendant of this Taylor family write to me on Ancestry so leave that possible connection as likely true with Edwin Denner Buller marrying Ellen Taylor sometime in the 1880s after he was medically repatriated to Birmingham from South Africa as a result of his injuries as a Medic during the First Boer War (he returned in 1882 and was a patient at the hospital in Aston). Still working on that theory actually but this match is quite large a likely 2nd to 3rd cousin or a very large 4th cousin. 

Finally watching the news once again and prayers for all those suffering because of the wild fires in central Canada in particular and all across Canada as Climate Change continues to aggravate the conditions under which fires are able to take such great costs on the Canadian people. 

Time to do solitaire as I got distracted early this morning as I drank my tea and thought about the matches on Living DNA.  

Groceries, the market and another quiet day

 The local market opened last week and we attended this week and found lovely local vegetables there plus the grocery store completed our hunt for food that we wanted. With two of us food is more expensive but we still buy pretty basic preparing everything we eat primarily from scratch. I do not like a lot of salt in my food so eliminates most commercial preparations. Although I would say that salt is a good preservative. It makes an interesting diversion in my year for sure though but I get very little work done this time of year. 

A few more of the Gedmatch matches sorted into my database leaving perhaps  nine still to work on and then I move to Living DNA. There are a lot of matches there for sure and they will likely be heavier on the side of British Isles people testing. Still no more news on the 23 and Me purchase and I am excited to think perhaps we will have person to person matching again. Time will tell. 23 and Me was an extremely good site and I really consider the invasion of that database to be terrorism and hope that the criminals are caught and punished to the full extent of the law. 

Other than that I did absolutely no work at all but the days move quickly as we get prepared for summer. My daughter deep into research these days which is nice to see. Research is the backbone of our existence as a people on this planet and each researcher brings to the table their skill sets and one never really knows which skill set is going to move us ahead each time. 

The Gold Dome is still creating interest around the globe. Considering the chances of a meteor strike always exist working on the dome is in everyone's interest actually. But as usual we have the people who are only interested in dominating the globe trying to destroy the idea. One is left with the impression that they fear the dome but really if you do not attack another country than you have no fear. The world would be better off if everyone was friendly rather than selfish and demanding and in some cases satanic like the Russians and Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthis along with Iran their funder. 

Tea drank, solitaire puzzles completed and just waiting for the fitbit to finish charging to 100% for another five day run. Must get a new one one of these days but it still seems to work well. I am going to look for a new computer though as Windows 10 is going archaic! 

Question Period

Glued to the television watching Question Period and a few thoughts emerged. First of all Prime Minister Carney was a natural I have to admit; he fitted perfectly into Parliament. He allowed his cabinet to answer questions in their pertinent area which is always a bonus I think. We have had a one man show for too long in the Liberal government. 

The subject of the lack of a budget for this short time period was raised but I think realistically when one considers that the Prime Minister is meeting with the Provincial and Territorial Premiers on the 2nd of June to discuss priorities (and summer break quickly follows) it is very difficult to prepare a budget prior to that meeting and it will take a while to decide which roads to follow as we move forward quickly to pipelines and everything else that will encourage industry; break down provincial trade barriers and stave off a recession. So I agree (although fundamentally I believe in a budget) it is not necessary at this time. 

Great job Prime Minister and I am looking forward to Question Period once again although I do tend to do one of my exercises at the time like rowing or running or yoga but I get the words without actually watching.  

A little work on the matches and the cleaning is completed for another week rounding out the day. No work outside; a day off as it is too warm mid day to work outside really and the blackflies can be nasty in the evening. 

 

The Throne Speech

There were a few really good items in the throne speech including becoming part of the European Defense System; we are already part of NORAD here. The only real defense against aggressor nations is to be more armed than they are unfortunately. I have argued for many years now that we need to put more into our military because they are the backbone of our defense system both against natural causes like flooding, fires, whatever but also against aggressive nations. We always need to be ready because aggressors have basically become satanists and the word "no" has no meaning to them. They are selfish ignorant people with no regard for anyone (including their own people) but themselves and their ambitions. 

A few really good takeaways in the Throne Speech included single release for each project; no prolonged haggling over implementing ideas. Of course breaking down the trade barriers between provinces will really help the economy as trade is just a small portion of business in the long run. The more we produce here ourselves the better off we will be. Trade is just a luxury that we enjoy when it happens but our first concern should be local production of all items especially those bought out/closed during NAFTA/CUSMA. Of course companies are welcomed to open up a manufacturing hub here if it works for both of us for that to happen. But really when I was a child everything was mostly made in Canada so we can do that again.  The car industry still up in the air here in Ontario - the tariffs do not work for us and it will hurt the American car companies that have been established here for as much as 100 years in the case of Dodge. We always bought Dodge in my family and we still have a Dodge but if it isn't made here by Canadian workers the resolve of 1965 was that it has to be made in Canada by Canadian workers and Canadian materials to a certain extent. We are a large market especially as owning a car here is a rite of passage to adulthood for sure; get your permanent license now at 18 (was 16) and buy a car and live at home so you can afford it. 

I really appreciated the enthusiasm which the King brought to the reading of the Throne Speech - it was a long read and he did it well with his fluent French. He does make a great King and the ability of him to have been a King earlier meant the loss of the Queen so one has to be happy that the Queen was Queen when she was and appreciate the King when he is King. I rather think William will also be a great King in his own time. He has truly been through the struggles of life from childhood even if his upbringing was wealthy.  

The Gold Dome System is interesting but useless against a heavy barrage it would appear judging from how it has worked for another nation. It can be overcome although one would think that if adequate sensors and defense manipulations can be built into the system it would be 100%. Definitely an interesting idea and joint effort to actually materially produce it would be in the best interests of everyone to keep the costs down. One wonders about its value during an asteroid storm - interesting concept actually. 

 Not much work done on matches yesterday but the lawns are both raked where they have been cut and more to do today. Weeding the garden was another project high on the list and did accomplish some of that. I asked the neighbour of they could cut back their lilac bush which hangs over our fence quite aways this year and we will see if that happens one of these days. A couple of hosta plants just do not get enough sun and are stunted thus far; they only need a little for sure but at the moment they get none! Still more weeding around the flowers to come and will try to get to that today as well. Fingers itching to work on the matches but the garden does tend to take up time in May and June. We want to plant the Sunflowers soon - seven rows I think will be lovely. 

Top floor to clean as I simply can not do two floors in one day and also work outside. So that is the next task after breakfast. Drinking my tea and doing solitaire. Another beautiful sunny day but rain and cooler weather is mentioned.