Picking up where I left off

After losing my wordpress site, restoring it and fixing it, I decided to make a list of the things I meant to post about over the year or more where I fell off the map. I also bastardized the traditional "Thompson" crest switching the hawks for the cornish choughs from the "Elmer" crest of the Bishop John Aylmer family. The Scots groups I have belonged to call this "differencing".

Here is my starter/apology post for 2019:

https://wanderingtrees.com/2019/11/29/fracta-non-victa/

Then I took some time over the Christmas break to catch up on a few of the things in that list.

In December, I explored my MTDNA results. They didn't answer any questions but led to research into just how far I could go with records to find my all mother. Finished up a piece on James Walsworth Elmore (his parentage is squishy on records if genetically in the right direction). I talked about Ancestry Thru Lines and the interesting and sometimes dangerous directions that can take you. I explored what it means to be a family, or now a shirttail cousin to my aunt's genetic family and I explored some of my Big Y 700 results.

https://wanderingtrees.com/2019/12/

January was a continuation of Big Y 700 in three posts where I'm thinking about the ever-widening circle of relatives and deeper time to my matching relatives.

https://wanderingtrees.com/2020/01/

I expect my next posts to be about the Baker family and their research into DYS458.2 minus DF95 men, a rebuttal to some of my big Y 700 conclusions, the Big Y 700 results of my "R-U152 Thompson" cousins in Indiana and the big Y 700 results from our friend Jensen in Denmark.

At the moment, seeking a bachelors degree and writing multiple APA style papers each week is burning into my writing time or I would probably have a little more to show.