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They didn't call her Bloody Mary for nothing!
Sorry. Too early in the day for me, thanks. 
I have to go to a wake and I'll probably wish I had a few afterwards.
I am English, Irish, Welsh, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian. etc etc. I would love to meet all my ancestors.
Nice stock. Ah...No French?
I think ancient humans traveled much more than modern man gives them credit.
And a good thing too, or we'd all still be living in the Olduvai Gorge (and it would be awfully crowded by now!)
I can trace my patrilineal family (Cole) back about a thousand years here (thank God for the Domesday Book and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles!) to Cornish Kola, though many Coles emigrated to the US and elsewhere over the years. I'm mostly Saxon and Norman on my mother's side.
But that's not a patch on one man in Somerset who lives half a mile from Cheddar Gorge, who was recently DNA-matched to a 9,000 year old skeleton found in one of the caves.http://pw2.netcom.com/~duchess/old_stuff/stone.html
I'll apologise to Klato now if one of my ancestors (the sherrif of Enniskillen, who founded Coleraine,) had any part in the hounding his ancestor for back taxes
9,000 year old skeleton found in one of the caves I saw something on tv about that. (I still watch it too much ) That must be a great feeling to know you belong to a place, and your people have been there for so many thousands of years. What a shame so much history of the "common folk" is lost to time. I would love to know the life stories of all the people that never made the history books. It's a wonderful thing that some of it can be brought to life by DNA!
I'll apologise to Klato now if one of my ancestors (the sherrif of Enniskillen, who founded Coleraine,) had any part in the hounding his ancestor for back taxes.
That's not all you'll have to atone for. Tomorrow, I have to die as a loyalist. We are doing our annual re-enactment of a part of the Battle of Kettle Creek. I get to die again! For King and Country!
I think civilization would have to be credited to the Middle East, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and Africa.
Indeed, it depends how we define civilization. Writing would be the Middle East, Agriculture would be Indo-European, and technology (stone) would be Africa, predating even the evolution of the genus Homo.
I am always profoundly aware, when I look at all the technology of today - computers, space shuttles, the Microsoft Office paperclip, whatever, that it was all made by ancient Man banging flints together. They made the tools that made the tools that made the tools... that made them all.
I also found it interesting that when they did a genetic sampling there was a Italian woman and an Inuit man that shared a great number of common markers.
I needed that one. I did a google on the Amazons and received a ton of pictures of Amazon blondes (Hollywood type). I recall a study being done on searching for an Amazon descendant and I was searching for it. Oh, well, as my Pre-Alzheimer brain remembers, DNA tests were run against a 9 year old blonde girl who turned out to be a direct descendant of an Amazon warrior whose body had been found earlier. You're right. DNA can really pose some interesting questions about people and their life stories.
hat it was all made by ancient Man banging flints together I am amazed by the skill it takes to make a flake tool. I have tried and got nothing but broken rocks and some nasty cuts. I good flint tool is amazingly sharp, and stays sharp much longer than metal. (they do fracture and metal won't). You have to hand it to the ancestors for having skill and stamina.
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Corwin:
If you chhanged to firefox, go to:
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and un-check "block pop-up windows".
If you chhanged to firefox, go to:
tools/options/content
and un-check "block pop-up windows".
I have to go to a wake and I'll probably wish I had a few afterwards. 
Yes, The Irish part is Corbett. Comes from a Norman word meaning a little crow. So you have Norse going to France going to Ireland. So I guess people got around a lot before the new world too.
Wow! The Norse did get around more than I thought. I think I saw something about the Norse migrations on the History Channel, but it was only on their trips to Iceland and Newfoundland. Do you think the Norse people started civilization?
No, as proud as I may be of my Norse side of the family, I think civilization would have to be credited to the Middle East, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and Africa. Then there is a lot to be said for the Asians too.
I think ancient humans traveled much more than modern man gives them credit. I find common cultural practices spread among diverse cultures very interesting. The use of red ocre and hand mirrors in burials from many cultures around the arctic circle is interesting.
I don't think man's basic nature has changed much, I think he has always been curious, and interested in trade, adventure, and the hope of riches to be found over the next hill.
I also found it interesting that when they did a genetic sampling there was a Italian woman and an Inuit man that shared a great number of common markers..Now either that branch of science is somehow flawed, or there is an interesting story in history we will never know.
I think ancient humans traveled much more than modern man gives them credit. I find common cultural practices spread among diverse cultures very interesting. The use of red ocre and hand mirrors in burials from many cultures around the arctic circle is interesting.
I don't think man's basic nature has changed much, I think he has always been curious, and interested in trade, adventure, and the hope of riches to be found over the next hill.
I also found it interesting that when they did a genetic sampling there was a Italian woman and an Inuit man that shared a great number of common markers..Now either that branch of science is somehow flawed, or there is an interesting story in history we will never know.
And a good thing too, or we'd all still be living in the Olduvai Gorge (and it would be awfully crowded by now!)
I can trace my patrilineal family (Cole) back about a thousand years here (thank God for the Domesday Book and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles!) to Cornish Kola, though many Coles emigrated to the US and elsewhere over the years. I'm mostly Saxon and Norman on my mother's side.
But that's not a patch on one man in Somerset who lives half a mile from Cheddar Gorge, who was recently DNA-matched to a 9,000 year old skeleton found in one of the caves.
I'll apologise to Klato now if one of my ancestors (the sherrif of Enniskillen, who founded Coleraine,) had any part in the hounding his ancestor for back taxes
) That must be a great feeling to know you belong to a place, and your people have been there for so many thousands of years. What a shame so much history of the "common folk" is lost to time. I would love to know the life stories of all the people that never made the history books. It's a wonderful thing that some of it can be brought to life by DNA! Tomorrow, I have to die as a loyalist. We are doing our annual re-enactment of a part of the Battle of Kettle Creek. I get to die again! For King and Country! Indeed, it depends how we define civilization. Writing would be the Middle East, Agriculture would be Indo-European, and technology (stone) would be Africa, predating even the evolution of the genus Homo.
I am always profoundly aware, when I look at all the technology of today - computers, space shuttles, the Microsoft Office paperclip, whatever, that it was all made by ancient Man banging flints together. They made the tools that made the tools that made the tools... that made them all.
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