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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #99 on: Friday 05 September 08 11:12 BST (UK) »
a message from our ancestors:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsBDcIYes

Please help me to help you by citing sources for information.

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #100 on: Friday 05 September 08 11:36 BST (UK) »
a message from our ancestors:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsBDcIYes



I don't often look at the YouTube links - life is too short - but I am so glad I did this time. That was beautiful, thanks.

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SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #101 on: Saturday 06 September 08 07:00 BST (UK) »
For those who claim to have finally 'completed' their tree and got back to Adam & Eve  :P

He's got the whole world in his hands - by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

NOW THAT dates me  ;D

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #102 on: Saturday 06 September 08 08:35 BST (UK) »
Well done Jean you must be one of the first to go back so far. ;D ;D ;D  Stephen Evans.
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #103 on: Sunday 07 September 08 07:42 BST (UK) »
I meant the song not the tree. :D

 I'm still stuck at the turn of the 19C   :( but I do remember when the song came out. 

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #104 on: Saturday 13 September 08 10:48 BST (UK) »
Papa was a Rolling Stone,- The Temptations  ;D
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #105 on: Saturday 13 September 08 11:03 BST (UK) »
I've got you under my skin - Frank Sinartra
Biology - Girls aloud
I aint no, I've got life - Nina simone
That was your mother - Paul Simon
He aint heavy, he's my brother - The Hollies

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #106 on: Saturday 13 September 08 11:10 BST (UK) »
As my lot were all ag/labs, they might have liked this,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=we55QQcsvY4
Pete :) :)

Another one for our hard-working ancesters who struggled all their lives to make ends meet!  Originally sung by Lesley Sarony, but this is a cover by Roy Leslie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlA4q1IcB0

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Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
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Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #107 on: Saturday 13 September 08 14:17 BST (UK) »
Yet another, Forgive and Forget,- Blondie  :)
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