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Saturday: martial arts
Sep. 12th, 2020 11:00 pmI took T. to martial arts. I did not have my phone call with M., because she was taking her son to a Scout thing.
Last day of the genealogy conference (NYSFHC, run by NYGBS). I had planned to livestream 2 sessions, but after the previous day giving up on the Jones presentation because it belabored the obvious a bit too much even for me, and figured you know, no. But I did listen in on the Bettinger developments in genetic genealogy, and that was awesome — lots of deep dive into the implications of recent changes on Ancestry.com. Partly it was about the ethnicity estimates, and it was nice to hear that he thinks about it _roughly_ the same way I do. However, the really great part was the description of algorithm changes to reconnect accidentally broken segments, and eliminating matches based on too short lengths, and displaying segment lengths and letting you sort on them. It is great that ancestry is surfacing this stuff — before you had to download and re-upload your info to a place that would let you do that analysis and honestly, I am not that motivated and it would not help really anyway because everyone else’s info is still on ancestry. So, exciting, and I should go check it out.
While listening, I really thoroughly cleaned some doors (master bathroom, green bathroom, T.’s bedroom door on the hallway side, door to the 3rd floor on the hallway side). They really needed it.
Last day of the genealogy conference (NYSFHC, run by NYGBS). I had planned to livestream 2 sessions, but after the previous day giving up on the Jones presentation because it belabored the obvious a bit too much even for me, and figured you know, no. But I did listen in on the Bettinger developments in genetic genealogy, and that was awesome — lots of deep dive into the implications of recent changes on Ancestry.com. Partly it was about the ethnicity estimates, and it was nice to hear that he thinks about it _roughly_ the same way I do. However, the really great part was the description of algorithm changes to reconnect accidentally broken segments, and eliminating matches based on too short lengths, and displaying segment lengths and letting you sort on them. It is great that ancestry is surfacing this stuff — before you had to download and re-upload your info to a place that would let you do that analysis and honestly, I am not that motivated and it would not help really anyway because everyone else’s info is still on ancestry. So, exciting, and I should go check it out.
While listening, I really thoroughly cleaned some doors (master bathroom, green bathroom, T.’s bedroom door on the hallway side, door to the 3rd floor on the hallway side). They really needed it.