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The Common Room / Re: Gentlemen Only Funerals in Wales - Why?
« on: Yesterday at 00:37 »
"Utter Rubbish !"
Well, that's religion for you.
Well, that's religion for you.
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The Lighter Side / Hello Girls
« on: Friday 03 May 24 00:52 BST (UK) »
"Marie Edmee LeRoux was on the front lines of World War I in France, she sang in Paris, jumped out of biplanes in Italy and she was among the small group of women who helped change a president’s mind on giving women the right to vote. “And in spite of all they did,” said Catherine Bourgin, 59, LeRoux’s granddaughter, “when they were discharged from the military, they were told they were not veterans.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/02/hello-girls-ww1-suffrage/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/02/hello-girls-ww1-suffrage/
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United States of America / Re: Grand Army of the Republic
« on: Thursday 02 May 24 00:01 BST (UK) »4
The Common Room / Re: Stressed out
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 16:44 BST (UK) »
Thanks! It seems to be working smoothly for me, too.
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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Hints which have no relation to the person they are giving the hint for
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 18:49 BST (UK) »
"people in the damn US of A "
I'm not sure why the United States should be repeatedly damned by you for having people with the same name as some of your British relatives.
I'm not sure why the United States should be repeatedly damned by you for having people with the same name as some of your British relatives.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Family Search activity
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 16:27 BST (UK) »
"Perhaps Erato means that some of their family is included on other trees which have been submitted by other people."
Exactly. It's my family, but I'm not the one who put the tree online at FamilySearch.
Exactly. It's my family, but I'm not the one who put the tree online at FamilySearch.
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The Common Room / Stressed out
« on: Friday 26 April 24 22:34 BST (UK) »
"Due to high stress on the server, the search function has been automatically and temporarily disabled. Please try again in a short while."
I have been constantly getting this message for the past several days. What's up?
I have been constantly getting this message for the past several days. What's up?
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The Lighter Side / Re: Family Search activity
« on: Friday 26 April 24 20:05 BST (UK) »
I use FamilySearch often, but I don't keep my tree online there (or anywhere else). Of course, huge parts of my tree have been incorporated into the FS One World Tree by other people, and for the most part the information is correct. I have seen some errors, though. I don't try to correct them but, rather, just attach a note with my information and sources. No one has ever responded to my annotations.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Friday 26 April 24 10:04 BST (UK) »
The same author also wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" which is an excellent account of the events leading up to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. And especially interesting to me since I grew up in the town where the first shots were fired.
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"Just my opinion, but I do believe the original Puritan settlers did set a “tone” in New England of hard work, sobriety, and a conservative approach to life, if not politics, as it does tend to be a liberal area in that regard."
There I tend to agree with you. The actual modern religious descendants of the New England Puritans are the Congregationalists and the Unitarians, not the fundamentalist nut jobs of the bible belt. Those Puritan settlers did set a "tone" that is still dimly perceptible today even though New England is no longer numerically dominated by pure blooded Yankees. Certainly Yankee culture was a major theme in my paternal family.
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"Just my opinion, but I do believe the original Puritan settlers did set a “tone” in New England of hard work, sobriety, and a conservative approach to life, if not politics, as it does tend to be a liberal area in that regard."
There I tend to agree with you. The actual modern religious descendants of the New England Puritans are the Congregationalists and the Unitarians, not the fundamentalist nut jobs of the bible belt. Those Puritan settlers did set a "tone" that is still dimly perceptible today even though New England is no longer numerically dominated by pure blooded Yankees. Certainly Yankee culture was a major theme in my paternal family.