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burntcopper) wrote2002-08-03 10:25 am
burntcopper) wrote2002-08-03 10:25 am
:snerk:
the friday five is family history -
'Where are your ancestors from?'
'Who were the first to move here?'
and all that, and I was answering those in my head and going 'they're celts and anglo-saxons'.
Seriously. The only branch we can trace that weren't either of those were a bunch of french glassmakers a few centuries ago. Such quizzes become embarrassing when you're disgustingly native. First to move here - that would be the lot who moved in a couple of thousand years ago in this big wave of immigration across europe, the British Isles being pretty much the furthest place you could get in those days.
'Where are your ancestors from?'
'Who were the first to move here?'
and all that, and I was answering those in my head and going 'they're celts and anglo-saxons'.
Seriously. The only branch we can trace that weren't either of those were a bunch of french glassmakers a few centuries ago. Such quizzes become embarrassing when you're disgustingly native. First to move here - that would be the lot who moved in a couple of thousand years ago in this big wave of immigration across europe, the British Isles being pretty much the furthest place you could get in those days.