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liverpool annie
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:04 UTC (UK) »


Lovely to see you  Gaie .... kids must be back at school !!  Grin

My Sister - Reba McIntire
Welcome Home  - Brian Littrell
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
America - Neil Diamond
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Be who you are and say what you feel -  because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind ! Dr. Seuss

Erect no gravestone .... let the Rose every year bloom for his sake ! Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus, I:5
Gaie
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #31 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:18 UTC (UK) »
For those who search the shipping lists:

"A ship to Old England came" - trad.  Martin Carthy

For the Aussies amongst us:

"My heart's in New South Wales" - trad. Dave Swarbrick
"Jim Jones in Botany Bay" - trad. Martin Carthy

And for our hungry rural ancestors:

"The Sheepstealer"
"The Poacher"
"The Begging Song" - all trad. Dave Swarbrick

G xxx

Annie
No, not back at school yet, but they all did very well in their exams, the eldest is going off to university, and they're all OUT!!! Grin Grin

I'll be looking at other boards later.......
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Notts/Leics/London: POLLARD/BELAND/FELLS/MORRISON/MARYSON/CLARKE
Northants: MARRIOT/T
Suffolk: LINGLY/LINGLEY/LINDLY/LINDLEY/ SEAGER /SIGGER/SEGGAR/VINCE
Gloucs: WINDOW Glamorgan: JENKINS Cardiganshire: JONES
Poland: OZIEMKIEWICZ France: LINETTE
liverpool annie
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #32 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:30 UTC (UK) »


Uh oh ! Now things are going to get expensive Gaie !! ... University !!!!!!!!!  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

How about "School's Out" by Alice Cooper

OK I'll get back on topic   Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Cheesy ........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YhTKiFEMAg
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Jean McGurn
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #33 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:33 UTC (UK) »
With a little help from my friends - The Beatles

Dedicated to all Rootschatters who help show us they way to go when we are stuck.

Jean
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StephEv
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #34 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:38 UTC (UK) »
Hi All, Hands up all those going through their music collections. Wink
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Gaie
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #35 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:43 UTC (UK) »
Caught bang to rights, guv!!!!  I'll come quietly....
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Notts/Leics/London: POLLARD/BELAND/FELLS/MORRISON/MARYSON/CLARKE
Northants: MARRIOT/T
Suffolk: LINGLY/LINGLEY/LINDLY/LINDLEY/ SEAGER /SIGGER/SEGGAR/VINCE
Gloucs: WINDOW Glamorgan: JENKINS Cardiganshire: JONES
Poland: OZIEMKIEWICZ France: LINETTE
pete edwards
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 21 August 08 14:44 UTC (UK) »
I suppose if we go back far enough in time then I would say the immigrant song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0

Pete Smiley Smiley
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 21 August 08 15:09 UTC (UK) »
Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland   (no one famous in my tree)

It Ain't Necessarily So - George & Ira Gershwin    (don't believe everything grannie tells you...)

Where the Streets Have No Name - U2  (lazy enumerator)


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CHS: Gosling, Hinton, Johnson, Marsland, Sorton      
LAN: Barlow, Jackson, James, Potts, Sorton
MAY: Caulfield, Griffin      
SAL/STS: Goodwin, Gregory      
SOM: Dowding, James, Jones

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StephEv
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 21 August 08 15:17 UTC (UK) »
Here's a couple of real oldies, Bing Crosby-As time goes by, Vic Damone- On a street where you live and Doris Day-Sentimental Journey Smiley
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kizmiaz
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #39 on: Thursday 21 August 08 15:56 UTC (UK) »
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
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In London - Scully, Day, Emery, Alger

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crystal lady
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #40 on: Thursday 21 August 08 19:01 UTC (UK) »
How about - ''I'm Alive'' - The Hollies !!

Crystal
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StephEv
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #41 on: Thursday 21 August 08 19:11 UTC (UK) »
Here's another, So Far Away- Carol King. Cool
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StephEv
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #42 on: Thursday 21 August 08 20:02 UTC (UK) »
My Old Man - Ian Drury Wink
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Gadget
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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #43 on: Thursday 21 August 08 20:31 UTC (UK) »
Anyone done this one yet?

Help - The Beatles

or for the very difficult cases:

Imagine - John Lennon

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #44 on: Thursday 21 August 08 20:34 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: Gadget on Thursday 21 August 08 20:31 UTC (UK)
Imagine - John Lennon

No-one does that here, surely?  Wink

meles
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Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk
Harrison: London; Pollock
Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx
Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk
Rogers: London; Bartlett: London
Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants
Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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