Probably "White Cliffs of Dover." The original artist in WW 2 was Vera Lynn. Didn't notice any bluebirds, but at that range, they probably wouldn't show up anyway, and it could have been taken in the wrong season.
If AB had deferred to me previously, I missed it somehow. But I must admit my interests were waning because another issue was becoming important.
I've been consumed for the last several weeks working on my Ancestry database.
On the research side, I've now got four main branches between me and Linda where I can go back to the 1600s and a foreign origin. I can take my sweetie's maternal grandmother's line back to Acadia, Nova Scotia at the time of the Acadian Diaspora. (Which means Linda can claim being among the "true and original" Cajuns.) But I can also take her maternal grandfather back to 1640s Canary Islands and Andalucia, Spain. (Some people refer to that as Andalusia but Ancestry seems to insist it is Andalucia.) I had already taken my patrilineal sequence back to 1600s Essex, and now I can take my matrilineal grandfather's line back to 1640s Gloucestershire. I'm working on cleaning up the list of cousins on both sides of the family. Once I do that, I think I will let my subscription to Ancestry.COM lapse.
I've also been working on optimizing some of the grunt work of generating customized family tree documents. I now have a sequencer that lets me pick any person in the DB as an anchor point. From there I can generate four family-related documents in less than three minutes. I build the selected person's ancestry tree (parents only, as far back as I have), the person's spouse's ancestry tree, the descendant tree for the two of them as a couple (their kids, grandkids, great-grands - again as far as I have), and a phone-book type listing of everyone who appears in any of the other three documents. Typically, for anyone in my grandparent's generation, this is 120+ people. This sequence includes using Excel to build the three trees and Word to build the indexed, alphabetized, and formatted family list.
Then, in the last month, we were having work done on the house and that has been a continual distraction. And WILL continue to be so, because the rain has been delaying progress. So there again, I have been flitting in and out of the forum just because my attention is elsewhere.
