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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #504 on: Friday 05 August 16 21:31 BST (UK) »
You see the sign above pub doors of the surnames of the licensees and think I have that surname in my family tree".
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #505 on: Friday 05 August 16 23:06 BST (UK) »
I've only been at it a few weeks and I can relate!!  ;D
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Munday
Stone
Surridge
Bryant
Reynolds
Taylor

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #506 on: Friday 05 August 16 23:49 BST (UK) »

A few weeks ;D .... try twenty years ;D ;D ;D
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #507 on: Friday 05 August 16 23:53 BST (UK) »
I've only been at it a few weeks and I can relate!!  ;D

Love the choice of your word RELATE,  ;D
"We analyse the evidence to draw a conclusion. The better the sources and information, the stronger the evidence, which leads to a reliable conclusion!" Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

MATHEWS, Ireland, England, USA & Canada, NZ
FLEMING,   Ireland
DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
DOUGLAS, Scotland, Ireland, NZ
WALKER,   Scotland
WATSON,  England, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
McAUGHTRIE, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
MASON,     Scotland, England, NZ
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #508 on: Saturday 06 August 16 00:03 BST (UK) »
Haha  ;)
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Munday
Stone
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Reynolds
Taylor

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #509 on: Saturday 06 August 16 00:11 BST (UK) »
I've only been at it a few weeks and I can relate!!  ;D

Love the choice of your word RELATE,  ;D

That's when you know you're addicted Jeanne.....every word reverts back to Genealogy  ;D

Good pun JW  :P

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #510 on: Saturday 06 August 16 03:50 BST (UK) »
You're so right - That's twice for me today Ros.  I posted something about watching the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics over on the TOT - I posted that I would be watching the Opening CEMETERY

Duh!   ::)
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FLEMING,   Ireland
DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
DOUGLAS, Scotland, Ireland, NZ
WALKER,   Scotland
WATSON,  England, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
McAUGHTRIE, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
MASON,     Scotland, England, NZ
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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #511 on: Saturday 06 August 16 05:54 BST (UK) »
You're so right - That's twice for me today Ros.  I posted something about watching the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics over on the TOT - I posted that I would be watching the Opening CEMETERY

Duh!   ::)

Love it  ;D

I've always said Genealogy can be fun & that's "dead"pan humour  ::)

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: You know you're addicted to Genealogy when ....
« Reply #512 on: Saturday 06 August 16 06:19 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D - your's is even better Annie!  It's clever!!
"We analyse the evidence to draw a conclusion. The better the sources and information, the stronger the evidence, which leads to a reliable conclusion!" Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

MATHEWS, Ireland, England, USA & Canada, NZ
FLEMING,   Ireland
DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
DOUGLAS, Scotland, Ireland, NZ
WALKER,   Scotland
WATSON,  England, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
McAUGHTRIE, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
MASON,     Scotland, England, NZ
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