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Offline Tony Payne

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Re: A bit of Genealogy Fun!!!!
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 03:19 GMT (UK) »
This has been one of my favourites for years....

Scientists have now proved that diahorrea is hereditory.  It runs in your genes...

I am researching the following families:
Hurst / Payne - Leicestershire / Warwickshire / Worcestershire
Toon(e) - Leicestershire
Batchelor / Foster - Warwickshire / Northamptonshire
Hardy - Dorset

My web site has the family tree showing.  I am researching primarily the Payne, Hurst, Foster and Batchelor lines in the Midlands.

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Quotations and Sayings in researching Family History
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 18 September 07 19:52 BST (UK) »
Over the past 14 months or so on various threads there have been numerous sayings and quotations about researching the past.  Sadly I never wrote any of them down.

I am helping someone to research their family tree and thought it would be appropriate to put a sheet of these quotations and sayings in as part of the presentation. 

Recently on a YT thread Deb posted the following:-


HE WHO RESEARCHES THE PAST BLESSES THE FUTURE

What are your favourite quotations/sayings?

Cathy  :D


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Re: Quotations and Sayings in researching Family History
« Reply #29 on: Thursday 20 September 07 02:49 BST (UK) »
Hi

I rather like the  one at the bottom of this post  ;D

Cheers
Caneo
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Re: Quotations and Sayings in researching Family History
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 20 September 07 03:34 BST (UK) »
There are a lot that I like.....but the following are among my favourites....

Genealogy goes on ... and on ... and on ...

Genealogy: Better than the best adventure game, and every bit as frustrating.

Genealogy...it's not a hobby, it's an obsession!

I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged.

......dee

Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

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Re: A bit of Genealogy Fun!!!!
« Reply #31 on: Thursday 20 September 07 11:49 BST (UK) »
....a saying I came across, in the same vein as "Windsurfers do it standing up ..." etc. :

Genealogists do it with dead people!


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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston,  Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland.  Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England

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Re: A bit of Genealogy Fun!!!!
« Reply #32 on: Thursday 20 September 07 11:52 BST (UK) »
The mind boggles!  :o
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: A bit of Genealogy Fun!!!!
« Reply #33 on: Thursday 20 September 07 20:09 BST (UK) »
So you start off  with 1, yourself, then  your parents  and all your siblings and their spouses and the kids so that's 15. Then you go back to your grandparents   and the grandparent's siblings and your parent's siblings 68 and all the spouses and children 74   and then it's the great grandparents and their siblings and children 109........................................................................................ 1 hour of typing later.......10 x great granparents and you find you are related  to half the population.

So now it's time to start on the spouses tree
Tree
GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Shropshire, BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.

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Re: A bit of Genealogy Fun!!!!
« Reply #34 on: Friday 21 September 07 07:55 BST (UK) »
...and then you find you are related to some of his/her  ancestors  :o :o

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Re: A bit of Genealogy Fun!!!!
« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 09 October 07 01:58 BST (UK) »
that reminds me...

you know you are adicted to genealogy when you ring you husband up at work just to tell him some exiting news!

That your great great grandmother's sister married his great great grandfather's brother!  ;D
Board, Lee (father's side), Cox, Lee (mother's side), Adams, Dyne, Allen, Burton, Hooker, Ryan, Mumberson, Bland, Hitchcock, Edwards, Anderson, Dixon, Locke, McFadzean, Escott, Easter...
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