rooman wrote:
> my ancestors on both sides were Swedes, Danes, Belgians , Irish and
> Scots (& a touch of Froggie aka the Normans)...the dutch are in the
> middle...but didnt get into the equation or the gene
> pool...weird...must have been the way they (the Vikings) tracked their
> longships down the coast on their way to pillaging the Britons...the
> Dutch coast wasnt there then, so they (the Hollanders) got missed in
> the mist...and left to the Germans to be belted around..!...
The vikings also did the west coast of Scotland and into Northern
Ireland, which when little sister's Danish father-in-law was reving up
the nieces that they were so lucky to have Viking blood from his side,
lead to an unexpected come back. Well, we actually have it from both
sides and mum's side has a fairy flag as well.
LS's father-in-law is at a decided disadvantage due to the germans.
Apparently the church records went up in flames during one of their
visits[1] and they (the danes) didn't get into this central registration
like the poms, etc. Not that it helps that much when your mobs departed
almost entirely before it started or was getting going. And we loose out
on the convict pips as well, bugger.
Dad's also a bit ****** becaused he has always dismissed as ******** the
story of having French ancestors. Yep, apparently his mother's Errey
line came from France during the Norman era. So, if I ever get to do the
family history bicycle tour of Great Britain, I am going to have to
visit the village of Errey in France as well. (phew, finally got it
vaguely back on topic {
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[1] And in typical Irish fashion, they burnt their own lot and two of
our lines came out on the second irish orphan ship and missed getting
a mention in certain "histerical" recreations recently.