A bit of my family tree.

#10 Yes Rodney the leader or Fuhrer came from humble backgrounds his father being the local postmaster in Austria not Germany. He too must have seen the carnage of the Somme. Plus the treaty of Versailles made it ideal ground to ferment the feelings of the people to try and resurrect what things could have been. The true history of war is never really known as is always written by the victors. You’ll have to watch now for blackmailers re your eye sight and your driving licence like Des ? I have been in a few situations regarding dead bodies in my life, and after the initial shock a numbness sets in and waits for the nightmares to subside otherwise one would end up a raving lunatic.Depends on the type of person and what morals you have I suppose. Wars are always caused by others but is the poor man in the street left to fight them . Cheers JS

#9. Better than the kings taster of food and drink for poison Harry ! Hope George Horsley , survived to a ripe old age ? Maybe was the author of the original saying “ what’s your poison “ Cheers JS

That kaiser geezer had an effect on me:


I Blame Kaiser Bill
(A tale of two Billies, one was my Dad)

Its all because of Kaiser Bill
That the 'Seidlitz' blasted to bits
The battle cruiser 'Queen Mary' at Jutland.

Its his fault that Joe the stoker
Didn't come home to wed
My Mam, his intended,
That I am not here.

Instead she wed Billy
Of the artillery, so
I'm not who I might be
You see.

Looking for members of the family tree is no easy task.
You find someone you think is yours and find it no so, you are cut off at the roots.

I didn't add the following to my first post on genealogy, as I feared overloading y'all, so here goes:*
The following is listed on the site Ancestry, a genealogical*site on your computer. I'm just cherry picking to give interest to the hobby of genealogy.
*
Bran King of Sluria* c.20 bce-5 ad .* *A 63rd Great Greatgrandfather. (GGF) .* Siluria was the*name then of an area encompassing SouthEast* Wales and a part of England.. Spouse*unknown.

Followed by all the petti Kings of Dumnonia through to 460-495,.* Then followed by the princes and Kings of Brycheinwog. (Wales) -738 who were followed by Princes and Kings of Dyfed (Wales) 580-* 650
Followed by Kings of Dyfed, Wales through to Princess Nest Verch Rhys of Dygbath 1105-1136.

If you decide to take up Genealogy as a hobby, pray you never have the Welsh as ancestors, I think they sold all vowels in their alphabet to the Italians. Welsh has al phs and l'lw's, it drives you nuts

One other notable on this branch*of my tree was Lady Godgifu, better known as Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia and Coventry* -1067 28th Great-Grandaunt.

There were 25 Barons who were witnesses to the magna carta,, 10 of them were my great-grandfathers*or great-grand uncles. and King John 1st was a 26th Great grandfather.

All of these kings etc. flow from a 4th Great*Grandmother Fanny*Saunders* who died a pauper*in a workhouse at 97.* The only information I had on her was the name Fanny Morris, age 18 and she lived in Devon.

When I finally tracked her down (three years later) by tracing every*female with the named Fanny in the South of England ..* She led me on a magic carpet ride through England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,*Normandy, Germany, the Vikings down as far as Attilla the Hun.

Mathematically you would have about 3000 or more* great grandfathers in the year 1,000 AD.* There's you as number 1, mom and dad 2, grandparents 4, great grandparents 8 and so it gets doubled each new generation.* What keeps it down mostly was cousins marrying, accidents, war, famine, plagues, etc. So, it's no big deal to have say a King in your tree, perhaps a percentage of you reading this will have them too.

Still I enjoy it, it's like playing detective and digging around on the computer, there's a wealth of information on-line.* All the censuses of England and some of the rest of GB are online going to about 1815, but not the latest two they will be posted on-line in about 30 years, as a protection and privacy of the current living citizens.* And all the records of churches are online too, you just have to dig a little and be patient and persistent.

I have 9 3 inch binders of names and info of my ancestors. They will all go in the garbage when I kick the bucket.* It's sad, but what the heck, I'm having fun doing*it.

Cheers, Rodney:cool:

Hi Rod.
Don't knock the double LLs or the Rhys's they where my mothers ancestors, Lol. I once heard a talk by an eminent scientist about ancestry, he took us back to eight women from whom he said all people descended from, can't remember the names but I think one was Rebeca, which was a common name in Wales. I have posted this before. Welsh s said to be hard to understand, my Granddaughter who is 36 and never been out of Aus sang Sauspan Fach right through in Welsh at Xmas time, she learned it off the Net.
Des