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"16 hours ago — Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA mapped to assess their risk of hundreds of diseases, under NHS plans for the next 10 yearS"

It doesn't give any idea whether both parents will be notified of the results or would the NHS be the only body to know the results of the  DNA test.

Would they be allowed to inform the husband that he had not actually sired the baby that his wife was carrying..

They do say that new born babies look like their fathers - when I first saw our new born baby girl I thought she looked like my father-in-law. 

Whatever posh is, then my mob were def. not it! Farmhands, farmers, ships' carpenters, cabinet makers, all northern bits of the islands of G.B., nowt from down south, really, and all very "pleb." TY

If they were "posh" then they must have had sufficient money to pay for cool ship cabins when they sailed off to foreign lands to pick up a few souvenirs.

P = Port side (left hand side)
O = Out
S = Starboard side (right hand side)
H = Home.

As the ships sailed from the UK into warm and very warm territory, the sun  shone into the Starboard cabins which made it extremely uncomfortable for  lady passengers who wore many layers of long garments.  Hence they wanted to be cool in the Port side cabins, etc.

I too have a ship's carpenter in the family tree and I have yet to discover whether he stayed on land, or sailed with the wooden ships of the period in order to mend anything that got smashed in violent storms at sea.

Just downloaded Will Young episode so will watch later.

As I do it that way I have the ability to pause and look properly at Tree of family lines/connections they are following.

Hard to figure it out sometimes otherwise.

Closest I've got to anyone famous is Iris Murdoch my second cousin.
Have her Grandparents NZ M/C.

I just view the programmes as light relief but sometimes there's been a hint of something or somewhere that I hadn't thought of when researching my own family. 

Constable far more noteworthy than a tenuous link to a long-gone King!
I'm quite delighted that I've no Royal or noble connections anywhere! Quite proud of it, in fact.
TY

Yes TY, but it is always the poor people who died of cold and starvation and the soldiers (both rich and poor)  at the front of an army that die, which means most of us must have descended from a person of higher birth who had a trade (such as a wheelwright/shipwright/blacksmith, etc.) .  When William 1st (William the Conqueror) sailed from Normandy in Europe in 1066 to claim the throne of England from King Harold Godwinson he found that the Anglo Saxon people of the North of England (Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Northumbria) were not particularly welcoming.   William eventually claimed the throne of England after Harold died with an arrow in his eye and his followers ran off.

William exacted revenge on the northern people of England by what is known as "The Harrying Of The North" - in other words he and his men swept into every village, hamlet, etc. killing every living person they could find.

So, when an army kills all the peasants and famine/bad harvests kill off peasants in other parts of the land, it means only the lucky people who own the land such as tribal leaders, Bishops, Archbishops, Monks in Monasteries which are attached to Granges (large farms).

I'm suprised there was anyone left in England when I remember history lessons of various religious differences, when at one time the Roman Catholics were in fear of their lives and at other times Protestants were afraid to disclose their affiliation in case they too were put on the rack and/or hung, drawn and quartered.   Then there was the English Civil War when the roundheads led by Oliver Cromwell, went round the UK killing off anyone who supported the King.

The last sentence has reminded me:  When my late OH was posted to Lincolnshire in 1964 we lived in an  old manor house which had been divided up into three separate quarters.         From the main upstairs bedroom there were three steps up to a laundry room.  One evening OH was in the bathroom and I was reading in  the bedroom when I looked up into the dividing room and saw four men (ghosts) - one man facing the other three and seemngly giving instructions  - all of them were wearing  old fashioned armour and helmets.    Years later I surfed online to see who had owned the place and found that a royalist had owned the original house, which explained why the roundheads were searching for something.   

I followed the link and found it mentioned the word "danelaw".   I found this interesting as East Riding Yorkshire once paid the Vikings (the Danes of Denmark)  a sort of ransome for not pillaging and plundering the land.  The money given was known as "geld" pronounced "gelt" and my parents born early 1900s still used the word daily, as in:  "I haven't any loose change (money/cash), have you any gelt, mother?".   

"In Old English, "hide" (hida) was a unit of land measurement equivalent to the amount of land needed to support a household, typically around 120 acres (49 hectares). It was the basis for land taxation and was used for military mustering.