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Title: Coincidence
Post by: andrewalston on Friday 19 December 08 08:55 GMT (UK)
I've just realised as I was filling in the search form on Ancestry that I was searching for a newly-born boy in a census whose parents were Joseph and Mary!  ;D
Title: Re: Coincidence
Post by: ricky1 on Friday 19 December 08 09:00 GMT (UK)
Hi andrewalston

I didnt know ancestry went that far back ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: Coincidence
Post by: lizdb on Friday 19 December 08 13:02 GMT (UK)
Was that the Bethleham census?  :)- after all, that is why M & J went there from Nazareth!.

Come to think of it, the Christmas story has lots of Family Historian connections -
A census
A birth
Illegitimacy (apparently)
Emigration (they fled to Egypt soon after the birth to get away from Herod)
Infant mortality (Herod killing all baby boys)

etc etc
Title: Re: Coincidence
Post by: Lydart on Friday 19 December 08 20:21 GMT (UK)
... but unlike the majority of us, a fully recorded genealogy and royal connections !