"Alive with your Ancestors"

[Ruskie]

I remember hearing about that bandick. Mindblowing isn't it? 

[bandick]

I’m surprised you would have heard anything at all of it in Australia…

I have a sister lives only a few miles away on the same range of hills and very interested in keeping me up to date with another amazing incident in much the same area… a small village called ‘Bleadon’… archaeologists dug, numerous, possibly hundreds of skeletons from beneath the local village school prior to some development… they decided to reconstruct the scull from one of the graves… and in an effort to keep the whole village community involved and informed held an open evening to display the  finished bust. It was put out on a program called ‘Meet the ancestors’… by the BBC:

‘Bleadon Man’ is a skeleton of a 50 year-old man found during the building of new houses in Bleadon, Somerset, near Weston-super-Mare, in 1997. He had been 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 metres) tall and suffered from arthritis. The bones were carbon-dated to 100 BC, during the Iron Age, a finding supported by archaeological finds at the site. Testing of the mitochondrial DNA of  local residents’ blood samples showed that five of them are descended from Bleadon man’s family. After viewing the facial reconstruction of Bleadon man, local people surmised that Guy Gibbs might be a relative even before the DNA results were released.

[angelfish58]

a small village called ‘Bleadon’… archaeologists dug, numerous, possibly hundreds of skeletons from beneath the local village school prior to some development… they decided to reconstruct the scull from one of the  Testing of the mitochondrial DNA of  local residents’ blood samples showed that five of them are descended from Bleadon man’s family. After viewing the facial reconstruction of Bleadon man, local people surmised that Guy Gibbs might be a relative even before the DNA results were released.

I remember watching that, the resemblance between the man and the reconstrustion was uncanny.

[genjen]

http://www.concertina.com/history/index.htm

Is this link for me YT?

What a fascinating thread, Wiggy. I have often wondered about what my ancestors were doing in terms of politics, wars etc. I don't seem to have a military background but I'm sure some of my Scottish family must have been affected by the Highland Clearances, Culloden and more.

I'm now looking through all my ancestors to see what was happening when they were alive. Another great way of avoiding the dreaded housework!!

[bandick]

Angelfish… I remember when they took the towel from the bust, the whole room gasped… they all recognised him immediately… it truly was a memorable moment… 

And all that from a pile of crumbling bones…

[Kim1980]

OK, sticking with the year my great grandparents were married:

1: 1913 - the year the zipper was invented
2: 1923 - the Walt Disney Company is established
3: 1890 - Vincent Van Gough dies
4: 1898 - Neon discovered

1565 is the furthest back I've got. That was the birth of my 13 x great grandfather, John Amor in Wiltshire. In that year, widowed Mary Queen of Scots was married. Also in that decade, Elizabeth 1 is queen, the great age of piracy in the Carribean begins and Shakespeare and Galileo are born!

[Windsor87]

My grandfather was born in November 1936...during the short reign of Edward VIII.

Sadly nobody obtained an Edward VIII brass threepence to mark the occassion...worth about  £20,000- £30,000 today. 

[youngtug]

http://www.concertina.com/history/index.htm

Is this link for me YT?

But if you come across one made by my gtgtgtgrandfather could you let me know, heres one of his;http://www.concertinamuseum.com/CM00258.htm

[Lydart]

This is one for PrueM and me:-

My Gr Grandfather was born 9th Jan, 1839 ... the same day the Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science.