Kumquat
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- Mar 2, 2009
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I think you mean "the former Mrs Huhne"..... anyway my girlfriend doesn't like to talk about her.
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Crazy where family history can lead
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I think you mean "the former Mrs Huhne"..... anyway my girlfriend doesn't like to talk about her.
The Birdman
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Glad to see you listening don't forget our ancestors also marched on London with the chartist movement .Another one supported united Ireland.Might even find your ancestors were throwing Irish farmers off their land and stealing it?
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
It is very interesting a distant cousin decided to trace the history of my Dads family starting with the youngest grandchild which was Mini Hut and traced him back to Oliver Cromwell no less.
I'm sorry that it's me.
I am a direct descendent of the first tribe to leave Africa and begin colonising the entire world
Baron Pepperpot
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Rosco P Coltrane (James Best) is a distant cousin of mine.
Older folk will find that funny.
Older folk will find that funny.
That sounds cool. But if your direct ancestor was 2nd cousin, you are Richard's 2nd cousin 18 times removed.
Sounds good, what are the details?
Are you a direct descendant of him?
Rosco PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Coltrane (and the good ol' boys)
Well, that would be me. I've been studying my family history for the past 35 years and I'm related to everybody. But I'm not going to boast about it here!
On Christmas Day my wife traced me back to the Marquis of Granby. Bloody annoying as I was just about to order a third pint!
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
right from William the Conqueror through to to the end of the Plantagenets , once you get into the royals its difficult to get out of them and through the marriages of some of the early Normans it runs into the Saxons as well and the whole lot of them intermarried even into the Welsh and Scots royals.
and I am now studying the Huns who intermarried with what were the Vikings and their royals
all very interesting ......but I still find the study of my mums family just as interesting and they never moved from the Forest of Dean area for 500 years
goldfish
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glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
I would imagine that everyone is related to someone famous to some degree .............but as you know its bothering to find out.
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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Stop thinking about the past, it doesn't prove anything.
Insel affe
HellBilly
My grandfather who was a priest traced his side of the family tree back to 1066 when Ralph de la Pomerai (Knight) came over with William the Conqueror and was awarded 57 manors in Somerset and Devon including the main seat at Berry Pomeroy and some intresting bits reading through the book including William of Orange. As with most people we can all make famous connections and as with most people our predecessors pissed any wealth away. Very intresting I have only just started to be intrested in it and may try and find out the other side of the family, Which came over from Germany & changed there name from schnorber to Shaw before the 1st world war and my uncle fought in Africa against the Germans and won a St Georges cross.
There is so much to think about, if I take Ralph de la Pomerai who was a Norman then there is a strong chance he is from Viking stock as the vikings settled in that part of France, so many directions one can go.
Ps anyone recommend a good website to do further tracing and how far back can one realistically go ?
There is so much to think about, if I take Ralph de la Pomerai who was a Norman then there is a strong chance he is from Viking stock as the vikings settled in that part of France, so many directions one can go.
Ps anyone recommend a good website to do further tracing and how far back can one realistically go ?
smudge
Up the Albion!
I need to do this as I have to find out my Nan's date of birth & death, bless her.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
try ANCESTRY but beware the yanks on there they do trace the history very well but will insist on putting odd stuff in like someone who was born in 1232 was born in Dallas Texas.
+ go back into the knights history he may well have come from viking royalty.
how far can you go back well I have managed to go back to before 500 BC but some of the links are very dubious/ stringy but nevertheless interesting
Insel affe
HellBilly
Thanks for that Mr Glasfryn, will try that Ralph de la Pomerai was from Saint Sauveur de la Pommeraye, La Manche, Normandy, France. So I would think they were land owners in Normandy and of some standing before coming over.
Superphil
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It might be that you understand these things better than me, here is the tree section right at the top, it then runs straight down over 3 more pages till it gets to me.
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You're in trouble if I do, I had to look it up after reading your post. Seems pretty straightforward though: Re: What does "x cousin x times removed" mean? - Genealogy Help - Family History & Genealogy Message Board - Ancestry.co.uk
King Richard III appears to be your 3rd cousin, x times removed. Henry Percy doesn't appear to be second cousin to Richard III (as your first post said) - I'd call that great great uncle.
Whatever it's called though, it's cool, Your Highness.
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You're in trouble if I do, I had to look it up after reading your post. Seems pretty straightforward though: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/topics.researchresources.genealogy-20-help/4399.1/mb.ashx
King Richard III appears to be your 3rd cousin, x times removed. Henry Percy doesn't appear to be second cousin to Richard III (as your first post said) - I'd call that great great uncle.
Whatever it's called though, it's cool, Your Highness.
