Author Topic: New online game World of Rootschat!  (Read 4078 times)

Offline bwgan ceredig

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Re: New online game World of Rootschat!
« Reply #9 on: Friday 24 February 06 23:57 GMT (UK) »
Oh, oh, oh, yes please, me too ;D...You could get a penalty everytime you incorrectly adopted someone who wasn't yours...I do that all the time :( ;D...err no hang on that means I'm bound to loose...might have to rethink this one :( ;D
Stiff - Monmouthshire & Glos, Parry - Monmouthshire
Stafford - Glos, Liles - Glos, Bright- Glos, Webb - Monmouthshire & Glos, Smart - Glos, Smith - Glos
Sullivan - Ireland, Jones (oh dear! Almost as bad as Smith), Walker - Somerset, Llewellyn
And, no don't laugh...Crump...I think it's great!

And of course, if I ever do manage to do a successful look up it is crown copyright and all that legal stuff!

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Re: New online game World of Rootschat!
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 25 February 06 15:18 GMT (UK) »
The symbols by the welcome thumbs up are the code that some enumerators used when compiling the censuses.

Can I have 20 points for this?

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Beds: Chapman, Norris, Nicholls
Cul:  Bone, Casson, Cuppage, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, McAvoy, Rooney, Sherwen, Singleton, Stephenson, Taylor, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Woodall
Herts:  Chapman, Merridan, Seymour
Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
Yorks:  Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire


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Offline Lesanne

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Re: New online game World of Rootschat!
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 25 February 06 21:50 GMT (UK) »
  What codes?  :-\

      Great Idea. Better patent it quick, case Waddington's are watching.
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Berks Bucks Oxon= Norris Coxhead Turner Cox Weston Baston Simpson
Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner

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Re: New online game World of Rootschat!
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 25 February 06 22:51 GMT (UK) »
I think I have just stepped into a parallel world!

Kerry

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Searching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website ....