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Hackstaple
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Whoopee! I have a raft of new live rellies and we stand toe to toe.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Amy K
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Me too, me too!!
My mother says that my toes are the only thing I inherited from my father, although I must say my second toe is considerably longer than my big toe, just just practically the same lenghth, like Bill Oddie's....
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Hackstaple
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Perhaps having long second toes shows a genetic predisposition towards hunting dead relatives? Well, if you can tell a lot about folk by studying the bumps on their heads or the lines on their hands... but cousins Fitty and Amy K.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Carolann
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Hi
I caught up with this last night after videoing both programmes. I thought they were well done. It is difficult to capture all the toing and froing that goes on when you're searching for your family and I think they did a good job of it.
I was jealous when Bill got to find the coroners report for his grandad's death, my husbands' great grandfather was run over by a furniture van in 1909 in Farnborough Hampshire and as I live in Yorkshire, I've been emaililng around local studies libraries etc, but so far none of them seem to have the relevant papers, possibly as the one in Farnborough itself is closed at the moment 
The only thing I was disapointed in is that they didn't show more of his mother's side of the family - too often genealogy books etc, only follow the male line - I like to buck this trend and am thoroughly researching all my female lines (to the best of my ability anyway  ).
I will certainly look forward to the next programme and intend keeping them all on video as a record.
Carol
Hull, East Yorkshrie
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GREEN, HOBSON, WILLOUGHBY, FARROW - Hull East Yorks
SAYERS, DOBNEY, GRANT, CROFT, HARE - Lincs
SINGLETON, FOGG, BROCKLEBANK - Lancashire
SINGLETON - Cumberland
PAGAN, GRAY, CALDWELL, NAISMITH - Scotland
CHEESMAN, WHITE, WATTS, GAINS, - Hampshire/Surrey
NASH, BULLMAN, PATE, LOFTUS/LOFFEST - London
HOSTY - Ireland to Chicago to Durham
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HI Everyone,
I enjoyed the programme too, but ugh that foot! I too have that 2nd toe thingy - hello new cous 
I missed the second programme on BBC4 though, but I enjoyed the interactive prog on BBC1, How easily did Bill Oddie get to see his mother's medical notes , do you think the Secretary for Health will now be inundated with requests from us all?
Looking forward to next week.
For Carole Ann,
I may be able to help you with your research in Farnborough as I use the library there, but as you say it is closed at the moment, but the Fleet library isn't the area shares newspapers and has done for as long as I can remember, Aldershot News, Farnborough News, Camberley News, so one of those libraries may have the info you need, there is a Family History Centre at Woking which may have copies of neighbouring papers?
May be worth a try?
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Hackstaple
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Nose to nose is better than toe to toe but in my case the nose needs some real space. But - look how many new cousins we have acquired in just a couple of days!
I did watch the BBC 4 programme and I thought it was better than the Oddie one. Here was a pretty normal guy trying to understand his parentage, many false starts and let downs and eventually a great surprise and still a basic question unanswered. Won't say more except that you should catch it next time round.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Amy K
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Apparently WDYTYA got something like 5.5 million viewers, twice as many as a BBC2 program normally gets!!!
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