Tuesday, November 26, 2019
68 messages
Perhaps I will get through the better part of these 68 messages tomorrow. It would be great as I could get back to research once again.
178 emails
Finally beginning to look doable. Perhaps by the end of the week all emails will have been filed, answered or contemplated.
If you are reading this towards the end of the week, today is Tuesday 26th of November, then resend your email.
If you are reading this towards the end of the week, today is Tuesday 26th of November, then resend your email.
Monday, November 25, 2019
266 emails
Working through all of these emails is like a walk back through the last year. I think though I really must avoid letting my email box build up. Uncharacteristic of me actually to let that happen as I am an organized person at heart.
Hopefully another hundred or so today. I had two volunteers for a couple of projects - Hampshire Project and Birmingham and Midlands Project (both DNA projects) - but I simply haven't had the time to follow through on the one hand with scanning a particular book that I have (discovered that it was missing an index for about ten pages - Yikes and I did try to rework the index so that has slowed me down) and for the second one I think he may have lost interest. They will be the last people that I write to and that is about 30 emails. Last because I need to prepare a longer email to discuss the possibility of collaboration and that does involve more thinking for sure.
I have mostly backed away from the T haplogroup studies (two) although do still receive the emails and do respond on occasion.
Although the number of emails does not appear to be going down by one hundred a day, I continue to receive 50 or so a day to which I am responding as received.
Hopefully another hundred or so today. I had two volunteers for a couple of projects - Hampshire Project and Birmingham and Midlands Project (both DNA projects) - but I simply haven't had the time to follow through on the one hand with scanning a particular book that I have (discovered that it was missing an index for about ten pages - Yikes and I did try to rework the index so that has slowed me down) and for the second one I think he may have lost interest. They will be the last people that I write to and that is about 30 emails. Last because I need to prepare a longer email to discuss the possibility of collaboration and that does involve more thinking for sure.
I have mostly backed away from the T haplogroup studies (two) although do still receive the emails and do respond on occasion.
Although the number of emails does not appear to be going down by one hundred a day, I continue to receive 50 or so a day to which I am responding as received.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
334 emails
I am now getting down to the emails that will entail more work than just filing. I decided to join WikiTree and having time to work on my tree there has been pretty well nil. I would like to get to it but it will definitely not be before the new year. I had a rather scathing letter asking why I only have two people up with my maiden surname (my father and myself) and do not have enough names for them to check against their DNA matches. I did write and assure the individual that if he matches me then my email will show up and he can write to me about the match with myself or any of my siblings. Those emails tend to get answered somewhat quicker as I am busy re-phasing my grandparents and surprisingly there are not that many changes. But each new match that can be proven with regard to shared ancestry makes the phasing ever the more interesting.
Genealogy is not really my passion. Organization is and the desire to establish my family lines in a rigorous fashion for the descendants of my parents and grandparents. We (my siblings and I) are my grandparents only grandchildren. Going back to the great grandparents this is not the case on my father's side, I have a number of second cousins although that number is fairly small and a number of them are half second cousins. On my mother's father's side, I have only half second cousins and there are only two of them. On my mother's mother's side, I am still trying to locate the grandchildren of one of my grandmother's sisters and the other one who had three sons has just one granddaughter still living with descendants. The rest of her siblings did not have children. So the number of second cousins is small but the number of third cousins takes a rather dramatic leap. Although my paternal grandfather had eleven siblings only one child, the eldest daughter, had a large number of grandchildren/great grandchildren. The rest had two to three children at most and many of them had no children at all.
What ever happened to being friendly in genealogy one might say? Although I must admit quite a few of these emails are from distant cousins thanking me for my blog which has assisted them in their trek backwards. Some have queries that I cannot answer without doing a lot of research that I have no intention of doing.
Others are asking about the five projects that I administer at FT DNA. For three of these projects I do a newsletter three times a year so mostly I do not get a lot of queries on those studies which is rather handy to be honest. I probably can not answer any questions about their family lines anyway and the research is ongoing with respect to all of these haplogroups. H11 though has proven to be quite fascinating and as the project continues to grow one can see resting spots for various subclades of H11. However, FT DNA has changed access so actually determining location is not quite as easy as it was but privacy is important for sure. I never identify anyone in my reporting by name or kit number; it isn't necessary to do so and I do not report other than in those newsletters any particular mutations.
For my two one name studies I actually get very few emails as people tend to write to me directly. Most requests come for the Blake surname and usually it is in disagreement with what I am saying. I do provide the links back to my blog where the relevant details including location and transcription of original records and leave it at that. I am not going to be able to convince everyone with a family history that they descend from the family of Lord Robert Blake that in actual fact they may not descend from that particular Blake line.
Back to emails!
Genealogy is not really my passion. Organization is and the desire to establish my family lines in a rigorous fashion for the descendants of my parents and grandparents. We (my siblings and I) are my grandparents only grandchildren. Going back to the great grandparents this is not the case on my father's side, I have a number of second cousins although that number is fairly small and a number of them are half second cousins. On my mother's father's side, I have only half second cousins and there are only two of them. On my mother's mother's side, I am still trying to locate the grandchildren of one of my grandmother's sisters and the other one who had three sons has just one granddaughter still living with descendants. The rest of her siblings did not have children. So the number of second cousins is small but the number of third cousins takes a rather dramatic leap. Although my paternal grandfather had eleven siblings only one child, the eldest daughter, had a large number of grandchildren/great grandchildren. The rest had two to three children at most and many of them had no children at all.
What ever happened to being friendly in genealogy one might say? Although I must admit quite a few of these emails are from distant cousins thanking me for my blog which has assisted them in their trek backwards. Some have queries that I cannot answer without doing a lot of research that I have no intention of doing.
Others are asking about the five projects that I administer at FT DNA. For three of these projects I do a newsletter three times a year so mostly I do not get a lot of queries on those studies which is rather handy to be honest. I probably can not answer any questions about their family lines anyway and the research is ongoing with respect to all of these haplogroups. H11 though has proven to be quite fascinating and as the project continues to grow one can see resting spots for various subclades of H11. However, FT DNA has changed access so actually determining location is not quite as easy as it was but privacy is important for sure. I never identify anyone in my reporting by name or kit number; it isn't necessary to do so and I do not report other than in those newsletters any particular mutations.
For my two one name studies I actually get very few emails as people tend to write to me directly. Most requests come for the Blake surname and usually it is in disagreement with what I am saying. I do provide the links back to my blog where the relevant details including location and transcription of original records and leave it at that. I am not going to be able to convince everyone with a family history that they descend from the family of Lord Robert Blake that in actual fact they may not descend from that particular Blake line.
Back to emails!
Emails less than 400
Still working away on the emails and now less than 400 to do. However, 25% of these require some digging into the records to resolve any issues so takes a little more time.
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