Posted on 07/06/2013 9:03:06 PM PDT by lee martell
Nothing much to be proud of, really. I didn’t pick them, and there must be millions of us that have descended.
I was just lucky enough to have been able to trace it back. And, for whatever it is worth, there are a lot of disreputable apples in the old family tree.
One the other side of my father’s family, (Scots) - had to leave Scotland at night, rowing out to a boat - one step ahead of the English - had something to do with “The Clearances” and disobeying the law.
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