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When I popped in to see my family the other day, my dads cousin had been to see him and she'd got loads of copies of family history because she's investigating our family tree.

It was quite interesting reading about it all and especially to find our name had changed not 4 generations ago. This was put down to the low literacy levels at the time.

The most interesting part was reading about how my great, great, great, great grandfather and his family had drowned while emigrating to New Zealand.

The funny part came from a newspaper report about the family and a testomony from thier last employer in the UK.....

"The last employer of the family was a Mr.Smith and the family had been working in his mill before they left for New Zealand, 'I'm not suprised at all, the entire family were feckless', he said."

Great, I come from a long line of idiots.

Reminds me of a Simpsons episode...

it reminds me of the Simpsons family.....
I should search my family tree.who knows what I would find out....maybe I'll be richer

Anyone interested in their family tree might wanna try out http://www.genesconnected.co.uk .

The site is by the same people who run http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk .

I'll check it.but first I have to find out my family tree....

That's the beauty. You start with yourself and the people you know. Mums, Dads, sisters, etc and then you can save it with a logon. Then, when you find some more info you can go back and add it in.

It's all free, unless you want to try and contact other people registered on the site, who you find using their search engine, to see if they're related to you.

You search on names and it matches up on names, place of birth and date of birth.

yeah I don't understand....

my dad did a good deal of finding the family tree for a long time back

maybe were all related...

That website stuff or my original post Jules?

The mill owner was a prick huh?..


Smiths huh?..explains a bit. J/K

I'd love a regular surname like "Smith", mine is strange.

My paternal grandmother was a Smith...the whole family was a bit melodramtic and loopy.

Was Smith the old family name?

No, Smith was the name of the mill owner that made the comment about my feckless family.

My surname is waaaaaaaaay stranger than that.

BOOOOO...I hope I'm not related to that jerk!!

What's your name?

Never will I reveal it.

Never.

okay *sobs silently in disappointment*

Oh stop it, or I'll be forced to initiate a group hug.

Ewwwwwwwwww... mech's gonna go hug happy.

I got hugs here........don't make me use em'!

*Shuts up*

So..waht else did you learn about you wonderful family??

It seems my dads grear grandfather did pretty well for himself, he was one of the first to read and write in our family (no small thing in those days) and worked for a company called Norwest. Got pretty high up there apparently.

Sounds down right civilized..

He must have been the black sheep of the family then.

I know my grandfather was a chef in the navy and when my brother left school he trained as a chef too. My old man is an engineer and I followed in his foot steps.

What about you Dim, have you followed in anyone's foot steps?

Hey I know mechs real name.....

Seems it's no small thing these days as well, if the current reports on the state of the education system are to be believed....

so what are you going to do about this???
tell us....

Raz knows all...devulges nothing!

How do you know Raz? Was it field when I joined?

Oh dear god man I'll do anything, just keep it to yourself!

Mech's real name is...Mechmoggy. Muahahahaha!!!

My earliest tracked ancestor was John Oliver, who fought in the Revolutionary War and participated in the Boston Tea Party. Also, my last name is Welsh, therefore I have ancestors from the UK where a ton of you guys are.

Actually I know Mrs.Mech's name aswell!

hehehe...ok...I won't say anything

Hmmmm...I know Raz's name.

it's useless to ask for it,isn't it?

Depends on what we can work out.

Eeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

Dim,I knew your a resonable person.Let's negociate

If you're saying what I think you're saying.......you're right, you do know Mrs.MM name. But not mine.

Mr. Aston Villa, how hard can it be

by the way lucky bastards last night too

yeah keep on smiling they will loose against those bloody Blackburn.
Red rosed crapburn

oi! go ROVERS! souneeeeeeeeess!

My old man saw Graham Souness once and he said he was a right miserable bugger.....so he and his mate began to sing "We're all off to sunny Spain".

(BTW Grahams wife left him some years back and ran off to Spain - Tee Hee!)

did she run all the way too

Who knows.

He always looks like a bit of a shouter doesn't he, I'd hate to play under his management.

souness is our saviour

Pffffffft!

Graham Talyor is da man at club level management, not too clever on the International level though....

look at the genious that is buying yorke and cole

yeah retire squad Rovers

Yorke is a Villa reject, you can keep him.

he scores!
damn those penalties

But he's got teeth the Druids would worship!

yeah hi si on the happy pills for sure

what a change of the topic....