OT - Royal Wedding

On Apr 26, 3:27?pm, "M. JL Esq." wrote:

It's not staying up late, it's getting up early - champagne breakfast
for everyone! We'll be there. LOL.

N.
 
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:25:26 -0400, Cheryl
wrote:


First-- Search for some sets of interview questions and ask all the
older folks who still survive before they die next week.

Then I'd have to recommend ancestry.com. It is a commercial site &
I'm not sure how much you can find for free anymore- but lots of
libraries have it for free- and they give free trials frequently.

You can kill a couple hours [days. . weeks. .] at the free site-
genealogy.com, too.

Caution-- if you have any interest in history, people, or puzzles,
genealogy can be addictive. It took me a decade to get back to my
regularly scheduled life. [and I backslide from time to time--
but I love it]

Jim
 
On 26/04/2011 10:01 AM, Nancy Young wrote:



It never ceases to amaze me how much interest people have in that clan
if in-breds. What amazes me even more is how much more fascinated
Americans seem to be in the royals than Canadians. I get the media from
both sides of the border and it the American sources devote a lot more
time to the upcoming wedding than ours do.
 
Mark Thorson wrote in news:4DB7703E.6BB212C6
@sonic.net:


And on the downslope...one of the nasty side effects of "being on
top" is that you have to relinquish the spot eventually.

--

The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
On 26/04/2011 1:49 PM, Michel Boucher wrote:

They could still have a king, but they blew it ;-) Like the rest of the
former colonies, they could be a member of the Commonwealth and have
gained their independence peacefully like we did.
 
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[email protected] says...

You should find a reliable photography studio which can copy the
originals; then the originals can be stashed away safely, everyone in the
family who wants copies can have their own, and you don't have to worry
about the precious only record being lost.

Janet
 
On 26/04/2011 2:52 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:


The point I was trying to make was that there are probably a greater
percentage of Americans who are hung up in this royal wedding than
Canadians. Most of us accept the reality of a monarch as figurehead
head of state, but we really don't give a fig for the anyone in the
royal family. They are a tourist attraction that benefits the UK.

The only person I know who travelled to England to see the coronation of
Liz II was my father in law, who was born and raised in the US and was,
at that point, still an American citizen.
 
Dave Smith wrote:

I'm sure there are millions and millions of Americans who could not
care less about it. You're confusing the media interest with viewer
interest.

nancy
 
On 27/04/2011 8:26 AM, Janet wrote:



Some people don't care about family history. When cleaning out my
father's stuff we came across a bunch of old sepia photos that looked to
be from the Boer War. We didn't know who they were so my brother threw
them out. My younger brother later learned that we had a great uncle
who fought in that war.

I recently made contact with a distant cousin who has given me all sorts
of good information about our family. I forwarded stuff to all three
brothers. Only one of them got to me about it. The other two probably
didn't bother to open them. If you are going to dig up the family
history,be prepared to do it for your own sake because the others
probably don't care.
 
Re: [email protected]

Dave Smith wrote:


What fun would that be? And besides, the economic impact of letting the US
colonies go would have been more than the Brits would have been willing to
stand for. It was a gigantic cash cow for them.
 
On Apr 26, 8:06?am, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

Supposedly William's favorite cake. The other thing that might appear
for one of the meals is "Eton Mess." I saw a brief on that - very
amusing - big mistake turned into a favorite dessert with only 3
ingredients.

N.
 
On Apr 26, 9:01?am, "Nancy Young" wrote:

I love it all, don't care if everyone thinks it's silly - ever since
Queen Elizabeth was a little girl. I had a scrapbook of pictures and
articles from current magazines when I was young in the 40s - have
kind of kept track of Elizabeth and Anne ever since. I probably come
by it honestly - half my family ancestors are English, and my paternal
grandmother was a real Anglophile, if that's the correct word. I had
a something-great grandfather who was Lord Mayor of Dublin (not
exactly English, but the UK nevertheless). This will be the second-in-
a-lifetime future-king royal English wedding I will watch on TV - the
beautiful couple certainly has my best wishes, and I don't see the
marriage failing. Any foreboding I have would be attached to
William's job as a rescue helicopter pilot - not exactly the safest
thing in the world.

N.
 
On 27/04/2011 2:25 AM, sf wrote:


I have found pictures of a number of my forefathers internet. I found
one of my 4X great grandfather who had been a Hessien serving in New
York who settled in Quebec. I found several pictures of my 3X great
grandfather who fought in the War of 1812 and later in the Upper Canada
Rebellion. I also found one of his son, who had moved back to the US and
fought for the south in the Civil War. He was with Stonewall Jackosn
when he was killed, escorted his body back to Virginia and was then on
Lee's staff and was present at the surrender at Appomatox.
 
On 26/04/2011 1:12 PM, Janet wrote:

At the time that her great grandfather was Lord Mayor, it would have
been part of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Not all Irish were anti
English. It was about that time that my great great great grandfather
left the priesthood, left the Catholic Church, left Ireland and moved to
Canada where he married into a Loyalist family.
 
Re: [email protected]

Nancy Young wrote:


Not really. The media delivers what the public wants, as evidenced by
ratings and sweeps which these days are very accurate, since cable and sat
systems can easily survey what channels you use. Respectable journalists
might cover a story for a couple days because it's news, and for no other
reason, but the extended hooplah only exists because people are watching it.

MartyB
 
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