Common themes in your bloodline?

[Graham47]

Our first house was opposite a pub, brilliant we thought..... until stop tap.
We soon got fed up with car doors slamming, shout's of "g'night" and of course the occasional 'watering' of our fence posts!

[bearsome]

When we started looking for houses here, there was a house we really liked, and seriously considered, but decided that being next door to a pub wasn't likely to be a good idea. As it was, it looks, despite the deeds saying other wise, that the pub is going to be replaced with housing, so it's just as well we didn't move in there. We do have a daughter with a publican's licence, though. 

[Trishanne]

When I left school I decided I wanted to be a hotel receptionist.  I have no idea why, the idea just came to me.  When I later started researching my family tree I have discovered very many of my ancestors were hoteliers in the Lake District.

[snooziflooze]

Now this is another topic altogether - that of what genes do you think you have inherited through your bloodlines...?

Perhaps another post is needed though for that one 

[stonechat]

Not really a common theme in my ancestry.

[Graham47]

All of them?

[bearsome]

All of them?

 

[stormtroop]

Just joined the forum,

All the women who married into the family I would like to praise; they kept us out of the workhouse, safe, strong , out of prison and out from under the shadow of the hangmans noose, so heres to the female line , God bless them.

[bykerlads]

Couldn't agree with you more, Stormtroop- I'm constantly in awe of the way my female ancestors faced down the odds so very much stacked against them and gradually improved the fortunes of the family- better women than me, in so many ways.
(PS- this is not to underestimate their menfolk whose toils kept the family fed and no doubt provided the firm hand needed to raise huge broods of children)