[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by Cherie

oh I would love someone to do that for me

Its not too hard you know, the TL goes obsessive about things like this and is at it night and day. I found out that I drive by the house my GG grandfather on my mums side used to live at once a week and that the TL lived for many years about 50 feet from where my Mums G Grandparents lived for many many years. One of the TL's relations was called Edward the Worm Slayer

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Edward the Worm Slayer

Marsh?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The TL did my family tree last year right back to like the 15th century and we are also related. tbh once you get to your GG grandparents you literally are related to everyone and you have cousins all over the shop

I was going to say there's less chance for me and my wife because we're from very different areas BUT my dad's maternal family (if you go back 3 or 4 generations) was Irish Catholic, and her mum's family is Irish Catholic going back just one generation (both her maternal grandparents migrated from Ireland as adults) so I guess there's potential there .

If you stay around the same area for life everyone does seem to be related in some way or other though. In my teens it transpired that my best friend at school is actually some form of "numbered/removed" cousin... my grandfather and his great-grandfather were 1st cousins. So not even that distant

[edit]3rd cousins once removed. I've just used a calcumerlator on google

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Its not too hard you know, the TL goes obsessive about things like this and is at it night and day. I found out that I drive by the house my GG grandfather on my mums side used to live at once a week and that the TL lived for many years about 50 feet from where my Mums G Grandparents lived for many many years. One of the TL's relations was called Edward the Worm Slayer

haha I'm gonna guess it's worm as in "wyrm", so he killed dragons

[ChristmasNeeve]

Actually, Gavins surname is Scottish and I think one of his relatives did a family history search and they're from Scotland going back not too long ago, so he might be related to you both TS and LT Both my parents have very irish names though, it would be interesting to do a search, where do you even start with it?

[Christmas Dynasnow]

If we assume that there is a new generation every twenty-five years, an ancestor born 1,000 years before you would be 40 generations removed from you. You would have 2,199,023,255,550 (that’s 2 trillion, 199 billion, 23 million, 255 thousand, 550) unique ancestors born in the previous 40 generations, assuming no overlap (that is, none of your ancestors were cousins to other ancestors).

https://blog.eogn.com/2018/01/26/how...s-do-you-have/

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Actually, Gavins surname is Scottish and I think one of his relatives did a family history search and they're from Scotland going back not too long ago, so he might be related to you both TS and LT Both my parents have very irish names though, it would be interesting to do a search, where do you even start with it?

spit in a wee bottle and send it off

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

spit in a wee bottle and send it off

Where? Ancestery.com or something like that?

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

spit in a wee bottle and send it off

Surely you should wee in a wee bottle and spit in a spit bottle?

[Cherry Christmas]

I am very tempted now to do it, but after sharing one of the very few bus journeys recently with a woman who is convinced she is the actual Queen (and she had a big file of papers to prove it) and that Liz and Philip are going to be ousted any day now, I'm worried I might be Liz's long lost daughter

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I am very tempted now to do it, but after sharing one of the very few bus journeys recently with a woman who is convinced she is the actual Queen (and she had a big file of papers to prove it) and that Liz and Philip are going to be ousted any day now, I'm worried I might be Liz's long lost daughter

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

How do these things happen to me, she turned to me and ask me if I was English, what she meant was did I speak English as she wanted to show me her fat file on how she is the actual heir to the throne

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Cherie

How do these things happen to me, she turned to me and ask me if I was English, what she meant was did I speak English as she wanted to show me her fat file on how she is the actual heir to the throne

Those things always happen to Gavin, I'm an expert at giving off "don't talk to me" vibes to strangers

[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Those things always happen to Gavin, I'm an expert at giving off "don't talk to me" vibes to strangers

I thought she wanted directions she was very upset when I said I had to get off

[Parmy]

I must watch this on catchup, I've seen a lot of people crowing about how good this show was...was kelso featured at all?

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Where? Ancestery.com or something like that?

https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/