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by GeoffSmith » Sun 29.06.2014, 20:47
.... I've got Jock blood.
Meet great, great grandfather Robert Moffit Tait (yes, the old bearded one at the back) born in Leitholm in the Borders - less than 10 miles from Duns so it's not all bad.
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by hodge » Sun 29.06.2014, 21:12
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by Fredjohn » Sun 29.06.2014, 21:13
Expect to see you in a kilt next time!!
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by L8apex » Sun 29.06.2014, 21:53
The woman in the photo has a neat eyes and a really sweet smile......
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by epipete » Sun 29.06.2014, 22:13
L8apex wrote:The woman in the photo has a neat eyes and a really sweet smile......
Whilst the guy looks, uncannily, like General Melchett (blackadder IV)

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by GeoffSmith » Sun 29.06.2014, 22:15
That's my family you bassars.

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by maz_r » Sun 29.06.2014, 22:49
GeoffSmith wrote:That's my family you bassars.

Now then....now then....then.....now....now then.....then.............now....
2:54 in.....
Now Then....
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by Simon_P » Mon 30.06.2014, 09:34
Does that entitle you to vote?
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by rip » Mon 30.06.2014, 13:00
Part Jock part Geordie...
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by DaveT » Mon 30.06.2014, 18:42
The ultimate shame!!!!
you don't know the half of it-
my family tree has the Taits from that area also in it-- FFS we could be related!!!!!!
Have you got gedcom file?
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by GeoffSmith » Mon 30.06.2014, 19:44
FFFFFFS, this is worse than I imagined. Not only could I be related to Rambo but DaveT as well.... I guess it's too late to order your book Dave?

DaveT wrote:Have you got gedcom file?
No but I could get it....
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by DaveT » Mon 30.06.2014, 20:41
Book about the Twems- nothing about the Taits in it. Associated families will be the next edition. Book comes with disc of gedcom files for all Twems and associated families though. Book still available.
Twems have
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by tigerdog » Wed 02.07.2014, 15:39
epipete wrote:Whilst the guy looks, uncannily, like General Melchett...
Or maybe like Ron Swanson, from the US TV series "Parks And Recreation"

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by dapinky » Sat 05.07.2014, 19:15
GeoffSmith wrote:FFFFFFS, this is worse than I imagined. Not only could I be related to Rambo but DaveT as well....
I really hope you haven't got an Auntie Helen from Sutton Coldfield anywhere in your familly history - this could be a real disaster, cousin!
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by GeoffSmith » Sat 05.07.2014, 19:49
The Sheffields are from Drayton Bassett......

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by Rambo » Sat 05.07.2014, 21:22
GeoffSmith wrote:FFFFFFS, this is worse than I imagined. Not only could I be related to Rambo but DaveT as well....
You know where you got your good looks from then

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by epipete » Sat 05.07.2014, 21:45
Originally, I was relieved in checking that Annan was a long way from Leitholm and though I might have Scots ancestry (1/8 I think) there is little risk of sharing Geoff's blood line (albeit Grandad's Newcastle roots); but now I am fearful that, as a Lichfield boy, with these references to Sutton and Drayton things might be much, much worse.
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by GeoffSmith » Sat 05.07.2014, 22:40
Rambo wrote:GeoffSmith wrote:FFFFFFS, this is worse than I imagined. Not only could I be related to Rambo but DaveT as well....
You know where you got your good looks from then

No. Where?
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by DaveT » Sun 06.07.2014, 10:37
Cough cough!!!!
Well it certainly isn't from Rambo.
Having said that my side of the family have taller genes, not the "inbred" short fat and hairy ones that predominate north of the border.
Geoff- have checked my lot and they were originally masons in Stow, Midlothian, some of these then moved down to Langholme in Dumfrieshire and from there some to Liverpool where my connection through my great great grandmother Jeannie Tait commenced. Seems like Stow not too far from your lot so might be worth a look at a gedcom file if you have one.
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by Rambo » Sun 06.07.2014, 20:06
DaveT wrote:Cough cough!!!!
Well it certainly isn't from Rambo.
Having said that my side of the family have taller genes, not the "inbred" short fat and hairy ones that predominate north of the border.
Geoff- have checked my lot and they were originally masons in Stow, Midlothian, some of these then moved down to Langholme in Dumfrieshire and from there some to Liverpool where my connection through my great great grandmother Jeannie Tait commenced. Seems like Stow not too far from your lot so might be worth a look at a gedcom file if you have one.
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I meant YOU Dave not me - I'm the short, fat hairy one
Interestingly though, Stow is about 12 miles from me and Langholm about 35 so perhaps me, you and Geoff
ARE related. Geoff also used to have wacky hair before he lost the plot and shaved it off

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