Saturday's Activities include: martial arts, Vic's, soccer, MSOG, K1-speed, Cheesecake Factor

From the top: T. had martial arts. It went well. We had a late / second breakfast at Vic's. It was tasty. We went home. R. took T. to soccer. He forgot his bag. They went back to retrieve it, taking A. with them (in her Pjs, because she was having a pj day), so I could go to the Mike Maglio presentation on using genetic genealogy to help adoptees, illegitimate children (children who perhaps only know one of their parents identities) and break through roadblocks. It was really good. He has some very interesting strategies that combine cousin tracking with public-data tree building and DNA matches to figure out relationships. I am newly inspired to take my ancestry DNA results and upload them to GEDmatch, altho, I have to say, it will cause me endless amounts of confusion. One quarter of my ancestry is Russian Mennonite, which is highly endogamous. I'm one of those people who has 1000s of 4th cousin matches on ancestry. Working in my favor is that by this time, I can take a look at a 4th cousin match and just based on the name, eliminate a ton of them as likely much more distant than 4th cousin.

I stuck around for almost 2 hours, but they'd booked the room 12:30-4:30 and I had only planned on an hour. T. was sort of helping R. with yard work when I got home, but we left for K1-speed so he could go go-karting shortly thereafter. Then we stopped at the Burlington Mall Cheesecake Factory for dinner. We had a half hour wait, so I bought a jacket at Eddie Bauer, because the temperature had dropped below 60 degrees and I was freezing.