I believe I am going to enjoy the cleaning done over three days. Two days just wasn't quite long enough for this 80 year old; it was just a bit exhausting on the one day. No reason for that so will refrain from doing it. The main floor today and it is the smallest area which sounds strange but the garage has a room over it.
I completed Chromosome 12 yesterday and other than the Rawlings matches there are sufficient other matches (Blake, Pincombe and Buller) that I can assign known matches to most of the chromosomal areas for the five siblings. I may go back and do this little display with lengths on the other chromosomes as it is enlightening although can also be seen looking at DNA Painter.
I also set up Chromosome 11 to work on today and there are 80 matches in this particular folder to review. Cross over points vary from 2 to 4 for each sibling with most having two, one with three and one with four. Interestingly entire length of Rawlings chromosomes are passed (17 over 22 chromosomes are complete for the entire picture of five siblings excluding Chromosome 23 where 3 are Rawlings inherited as one length from our father). That is also true in Chromosome 11 which has two (one is to me). I inherited the most Rawlings at 33% (if one had a perfect world than perhaps each grandparent would pass 25% to each grandchild and it often is quite close to that but also different like my 33% which yields just 17% Blake for me). The crossover points have been selected on the basis of the Living DNA results and they compare fairly closely with the existing points created from the 23 and Me data along with FT DNA, Ancestry (Gedmatch) and My Heritage. But my principal guide was the 23 and Me results. I have just two crossover points in Living DNA that I can not place and that is the first time. I will have to review this as I move through the matches. I will also pull up the visuals in Living DNA and have a look at them to see where the match that affected that is occurring.
No work on the Photo Books and I must get back to that. Generally I need to have long periods for any project and the Cross over points have me in tow at the moment. I have the first Photo Book completed and I am just entering the information into the index for that one. The others will take less time as they have an existing index. These pictures distract me as they are from long ago when Edward and I first knew each other at school as fellow students (he was one year ahead of me).
An interesting finding with my Ellis sixth cousin as a Susan Courage (lived in the 1800s not currently) came up in the search path on a Blake ancestor. So checking with my cousin indeed she was in her tree and so another Ellis-Wellspring line has been uncovered and Ellis Ellis and Sarah Wellspring were our mutual 5x great grandparents marrying 7 Mar 1738 at Winterbourne Stickland in Dorset. Their descendants of their five surviving children (one died young and I have not found descendants for one) are now all over the world. Their youngest Sarah married William Knight 7 Aug 1775 at Winterbourne Stickland and their 9 children are definitely all over the world with a lot remaining in both cases in England to match me on these databases.
All of Canada is so excited at the Blue Jays going on to the World Series. It has been a long hard year in Canada and this little bright spot will bring a lot of happiness to Canadians. I am definitely staying away from the television a great deal these days. Myself I think we have to dig in and get industries growing again, get a pipeline built to Ontario from Alberta so that we can refine the oil and offset the loss of the car industry by refining our own; we burn a lot of gas in Ontario; we are the largest population province wise and we have a huge land area. The other item is to get the Trans Canada Highway widened to four lanes right across the province and not take forever to do it. Just build build build next spring and get it going. Already the road is probably twice as busy or more than a year ago. We also need to link to Port Churchill and the train going up to Port Churchill so as to use that natural harbour as a shipping point for the Northern Ontario rare earth minerals (this project is to be First Nations) unless we are going to build a port on James Bay. But it does seem like duplication in some ways since there isn't an existing one. All of this needs to be done with the support of the First Nations who dominate Northern Ontario and also the Manitoba First Nations. When we went to Moosonee on a trip in 2012 we took a boat ride on the Moosonee River out to James Bay and it was marvelous. We stayed at an eco lodge on Moosonee Factory Island and our oldest daughter had come with us on that trip. Edward was having some ill health at that time and I suggested to her that she might like a holiday away from all her work and it was her research time so she agreed and was there to help as Edward had wanted to go there for years (as did I actually). It was a marvelous trip on the train up from Cochrane to Moosonee. During our free time on the island we walked on the paths suggested by the Lodge to see some of the island. What a marvelous place it was and so very much enjoyed by us. But especially that trip out to James Bay was spectacular. On the way back we saw a huge white wolf watching us from the shore. Lots of bird life whilst we were there as well and we had taken our binoculars so certainly saw a lot on that trip that we normally would not have in Eastern Ontario except at migration time as there is a flyway across the St Lawrence River not far from here. No more on the current situation just work on my writing and stay away from the TV for sure.
Tea drank and a thin piece of my thinly buttered banana bread eaten. Soon breakfast time and cleaning.
