tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post895814682295767371..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: I surmise with my little blue eyesThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-36519365649293852452007-03-30T03:28:00.000+01:002007-03-30T03:28:00.000+01:00I know a bit too much about my family tree...recor...I know a bit too much about my family tree...records as far back as 1688 to a James Colburn from somewhere in the southernmost part of Ireland...<BR/><BR/>Then, businessmen and drunkards came to America in the 1740's all the way through to the present day....One of them, thought he was Daniel Boone and went around annoying his aquaintances with his coonskin cap and his omnipresent skinful of alchohol<BR/><BR/>But I like the small spare bits of something else...A great, great grandparent on each side was from France (or Quebec)imfunnytoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12942406430628029505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-49017472758194920972007-03-28T20:24:00.000+01:002007-03-28T20:24:00.000+01:00I do not know much about my family tree either, bu...I do not know much about my family tree either, but some of your theories made me curious. I did not know that blue eyes were that rare. I also have blue eyes, but dark brown hair and I am not exactly pale skinned. I am 3/4 German (well I guess...) and 1/8 Polish and 1/8 Dutch. Wonder what that reveals about me... I would love to find any jinxes or romantic legends in my family, too.BloggingMonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17767164739217269193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-26982885859908871782007-03-28T19:44:00.000+01:002007-03-28T19:44:00.000+01:00Unreliable, why thank you. ;-)Charles, of course, ...Unreliable, why thank you. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Charles, of course, the fossil in Cheddar Gorge accounted for just one of that school teacher's <I>millions</I> of ancestors. The rest of them may have come from anywhere else in the world. If they had happened to prove a relationship between the Cheddar Gorge fossil and someone living in Thailand, whose family going several generations back were entirely Thai...The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-60583470554090225322007-03-28T18:15:00.000+01:002007-03-28T18:15:00.000+01:00What about that schoolteacher in Somerset who prov...What about that schoolteacher in Somerset who proved to have the dame DNA as 3 000-year-old fossil bones discovered in the Cheddar Gorge? He <I>must</I> be indigenous!<BR/><BR/>Though mind you, given the usual treatment meted out to aboriginal peoples, he is probably wise to not make too much of it.<BR/><BR/>But imagine upstaging the Queen, for example: Who are these Johnny-come-latelys?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-47180791461815803132007-03-28T17:34:00.000+01:002007-03-28T17:34:00.000+01:00Has anyone ever told you that you've got very cute...Has anyone ever told you that you've got very cute irises?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com