Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

[Isaac]

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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A mostly peaceful event, it seems

 

[The_Doc_Man]

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.

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.)

 

[ColinEssex]

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.

It's called culture. Something Americans no nothing about. Plus, the Royal Family generate a huge amount of tourist revenue, far more than their civil list income. Best of all, the highest revenue comes from American and Japanese tourists. Americans just love to see 'Bucking-ham Palace'.
BTW, the half breed Yank is not a Princess, she was grudgingly awarded the title Duchess, by the Queen. Also, the income bestowed on Harry has been severed since he stopped doing royal duties. Also, the royal house they used in London has been taken away from them. Even his brother Wills has stopped speaking to him since he took up with the goldigger Yank.
Col

 

[Isaac]

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.)

Thanks for the explanation, I am going to give it another go some time! It's truly fascinating how families change with the times

 

[NauticalGent]

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

 

[ColinEssex]

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.)

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

 

[ColinEssex]

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

Um, excuse me but I'm not that way inclined.

 

[NauticalGent]

Of course not...

 

[Isaac]

Royal Duties. Oxymoron of the day

 

[NauticalGent]

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...

 

[ColinEssex]

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...

Actually, I don't mind, you are entitled to your opinions, they, like my opinions and comments, can be influenced by what we read in the press or see on telly.
I think American opinions of the U.K. can be quite funny.
Col

 

[Isaac]

But I wanted to find out what it was like to be a troll for a day!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

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

If I ever do visit Essex (not again; for me it would be "first time") I would love to have tea with you. Either blended or varietal would work fine, though I must admit not being a fan of the "smokey" teas like Lapsang Souchon. I am a man of simple tastes. Orange or Black Pekoe would work just fine.

 

[ColinEssex]

I'll warn you I don't do semi skimmed milk, that's for girls or according to some people, it's a sign of homosexuality.
Col

 

[The_Doc_Man]

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.

 

[ColinEssex]

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.

We don't have too much of that Nancy tea. We have our tea like we like our women, strong and dark. If you ask for honey or lemon in tea, good chance you'll get beaten up as a poofter.
Col

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I can indeed drink tea with nothing, or at most with a little bit of sweetener. And if you have a sore throat, honey/lemon in your tea is a WONDERFUL remedy. The folks who would call me a poofter might find out the error of their ways. My wife would beat the hell out of them.

 

[ColinEssex]

When I was 16, I was an apprentice motor mechanic. One of my jobs was to make the tea for about 8 or 10 mechanics in a back street garage in Bristol, one job I had was the tea, I made tea that was, shall we say, a bit weak. As a result, I was stripped on the lower part of my body and Castrol grease was applied liberally to specific areas. I learnt that motor mechanics like tea they can stand the spoon up in.
Actually, I was glad they did it because it was tradition that an apprentice had an 'initiation' so that got it over with. They were a good bunch to work with.
Col

 

[The_Doc_Man]

It's not quite the same, but with my time spent as a Navy contractor, I learned to appreciate the "Chief's coffee mess" tradition. Generally, the least senior of all the Chief Petty Officers is responsible for the coffee mess. And the tradition is that Navy coffee doubles as barnacle remover in a pinch. If you make a pot of weak coffee, someone usually suggests that the pot was just being cleaned, they weren't REALLY making coffee. It looked that weak because some of the fresher coffee stains were dissolving off the glass surface.

I didn't REALLY appreciate Navy coffee, though, until I went back to one of my mother's family reunions. In Alabama, you can pick up the traditional Bunn-o-matic glass coffee carafe of freshly-brewed coffee and hold it up to the light. You can see through it, and not just dimly. Yecchh!

 

[NauticalGent]