Quote Originally Posted by Cawdorian View Post
. . . you will find many famous and notorious ancestors. . . .
Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
. . . most of our ancestors were probably impoverished peasants (by far the bulk of humanity until modern times) . . . I find that the rogues and scoundrels usually had much more interesting life stories.

When I stayed at a B&B in Inverness a few years ago the landlord asked me if I were Scots. I told him the name suggests it but I hadn't looked into it in any detail because I wasn't sure I'd like what I found. He nodded sagely and replied, "Aye. A mon kin pay 10 pounds t' fin' suthin' out an' a hun'red more t' hush it up!"

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