Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1 Viewer)

The_Doc_Man said:

Regarding a discussion of the Queen's income source: I had already known about the Chancellory of the Exchequer some time ago. Turns out when I was doing my ancestry research that I verified I had a patrilineal ancestor who was a minor lord and who was affiliated with the British Treasury. This was about the time that Oliver Cromwell was reducing people's height with an axe. Strangest thing was that my family showed up in the Virginia colony at about the same time as the Exchequer's books didn't balance. Of course, nobody could prove anything. But the worst of it was that the dirty rotten scoundrels set up an estate in Virginia, but they never left me so much as a penny. Definitely NOT a nice way to treat your family.

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AccessBlaster said:

I did a search on Ancestry.com once, I found a picture of my distant relative below. He's at some kind of event in Boston.

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Isaac said:

That's pretty fascinating. Maybe I should give Ancestry.com another chance. I've tried it twice, and had trouble understanding how it worked. Or else I understood it, and found it worthless. It just kept asking ME to input my family members, rather than "finding" them for me. What good is that? I think at the end of the day they might as well partner with Lexis Nexis (etc) who really seems to know who is connected to who. I found a.com just a container, making the user do all the work.

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Isaac said:

To me the whole Royal Family thing in the UK seems (pardon me) really silly and ridiculous. An old lady with a crown that pretends to rule the country and in reality does nothing but keep the tabloids in business - and all this cost and nonsense drama that associates with it? What is this, the year 1600? I've never understood why Brits want or keep all this stuff to be honest with you.

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The_Doc_Man said:

Ah, Isaac, but you must have been inputting LIVING relatives. As soon as you enter a dead relative's name and either date of birth or date of death, then wait just a smidge, you will start getting hints. For purposes of the Privacy Act, they do not automatically link you to anyone whom they think is still alive. Using Ancestry and the trick of "riding public trees" I have gone back to Essex, England for my patrilineal ancestors and to Gloucestershire, England for some of my mother's folks - to the early 1600s. I have taken my wife's ancestry back to Canada at the time of the "Cajun Diaspora" of the 1730s, and to a branch from the Canary Islands of Spain in the 1600s. That branch leads us to some folks who might be extremely distant cousins among the people we call the islenos, a settlement of Spanish heritage in Plaquemines Parish just outside of the New Orleans city limits to the east. (We live to the west of the city.)

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The_Doc_Man said:

Ah, Isaac, but you must have been inputting LIVING relatives. As soon as you enter a dead relative's name and either date of birth or date of death, then wait just a smidge, you will start getting hints. For purposes of the Privacy Act, they do not automatically link you to anyone whom they think is still alive. Using Ancestry and the trick of "riding public trees" I have gone back to Essex, England for my patrilineal ancestors and to Gloucestershire, England for some of my mother's folks - to the early 1600s. I have taken my wife's ancestry back to Canada at the time of the "Cajun Diaspora" of the 1730s, and to a branch from the Canary Islands of Spain in the 1600s. That branch leads us to some folks who might be extremely distant cousins among the people we call the islenos, a settlement of Spanish heritage in Plaquemines Parish just outside of the New Orleans city limits to the east. (We live to the west of the city.)

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NauticalGent said:

I knew that statement would bring him out...!

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NauticalGent said:

Careful guys. Although CE deserves it, let's not stoop to insulting the country he belongs to. A shame he does not give us the same consideration, but let's not lose our manners as well...

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ColinEssex said:

Hey Doc, if you pop over to Essex again, you must drop in for tea.
Col

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The_Doc_Man said:

I might do honey or lemon in my tea, but I rarely use milk of any kind. And if it is a particularly pleasant varietal, I might take it "neat" as we say in the USA.

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