Geneology help
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gh0st

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4,693 posts

287 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Hi,

Recently my mum has got really really interested in geneology (sp?) - for those who dont know what that is its finding out about long dead relatives and tracing back the family tree.

She has discovered all sorts of amazing things such as a family naval history, the jobs of our ancestors and their place in society and what ships our family served on.

Now here is the question - is there any way of getting her to shut the fk up as she is boring the st out of me...

Incorrigible

13,668 posts

290 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I really don't see how people get so into this as there's so many more things to do that are actually interesting

Each to there own though

selmer

2,760 posts

271 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Tell her you'll never give grandkids, hence terminating the family lineage.

esselte

14,626 posts

296 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I did some of this and found out I was descended from my grandad.

randlemarcus

13,646 posts

260 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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Get her onto an internet forum - oops :P

gh0st

Original Poster:

4,693 posts

287 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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esselte said:
I did some of this and found out I was descended from my grandad.



Really?! I need to tell my mum about this poste haste! might give her something new to discover

Marki

15,763 posts

299 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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thats toofunny Ghost

JagLover

46,739 posts

264 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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I actually find this very interesting.

We usually know about our grandparents-but what about their parents and grandparents?

Wouldn't you want to know what your ancestors were doing a century ago.

mxdi

13,994 posts

278 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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My parents and my chaps' parents are doing it, just act interested and thank your lucky stars you wont have to do it when you are older.
We got both parents together for lunch one day and they wouldnt stop chattign about it, mind both sides of family have found out some gossip

simpo two

92,692 posts

294 months

Friday 15th April 2005
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This'll keep her quiet:

It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.



Music at http://users.cis.net/sammy/grandpa.htm

esselte

14,626 posts

296 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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JagLover said:
I actually find this very interesting.

We usually know about our grandparents-but what about their parents and grandparents?

Wouldn't you want to know what your ancestors were doing a century ago.


Because I'm here now I have a good idea what they were up to for some of the time.

8Pack

5,182 posts

269 months

Saturday 16th April 2005
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esselte said:

JagLover said:
I actually find this very interesting.

We usually know about our grandparents-but what about their parents and grandparents?

Wouldn't you want to know what your ancestors were doing a century ago.



Because I'm here now I have a good idea what they were up to for some of the time.


We know a song about that don't we? (to the tune Auld langs sine)

We're here because, we're here because, we're here because we're here!

We're here because, we're here because, we're here because we're here!