News 20080928
PROJECT NEWS
Family Tree DNA Discounts
The period for taking up these generous discounts ends on 30 September. It takes a very few minutes to order online - and I will gladly advise about that. However, realistically, I feel I would have been contacted long before this if anyone were seriously interested. That’s disappointing, but there we are!
In view of that, I am withdrawing my published offer to buy two (the minimum order) or more kits to distribute in the months ahead. Really, I only needed one, to donate to someone in my own line, and anything extra was part of the practical goodwill I feel to this project, the only way we are going to break through the immense research difficulties caused by lost records. In case anyone thinks that’s a matter of guesswork on my part, I should mention that my experience in academic and genealogical historical research over several decades affords me some credibility in this.
There is still a Free Offer posted up by me for any descendant of my great-great grandfather, James Canton - this will be financed when someone comes forward.
We have one test in the Y-DNA pipeline: that of a member of the large GL (Gloucestershire -> London) line, a descendant of the great John Canton FRS, the Enlightenment scientist. We look forward very much to seeing and sharing that result, perhaps in about six weeks’ time.
FTDNA and Hurricane Ike
I have today received a further bulletin about this. Basically, all is well and work is going to schedule. If anyone would like to see the letter, they should please just ask me.
PERSONAL NEWS
I have mentioned here in recent months that I am suffering from a painful condition, for which I am to start treatment in the coming week. As soon as I am over that, I am off to London for a few days, which will include a check-up with my St Thomas’s consultant. As a result, I don’t plan to write any more individual letters until all that is over. My doctor told me to cut back, so that I have only been replying to correspondents at weekends recently, but this will be a complete break for about three weeks.
My doctor was all for me doing ‘fun’ things like Facebook, which is relaxing and distracting in a good way. See me there if you want to - as far as I can tell, if you put ’Sheila Rowlands Wales’ into the search box, I am the only one to come up.