Shame and scandal

[Ian.MacAllan]

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This genealogy business doesn't half put the cat amongst the pigeons, but it can be fun if not taken too seriously.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

The landlord of an Edinburgh B&B once asked me if I were of Scots' ancestry. I replied that though it seemed possible, just on the basis of the surname, I had not looked into it in any detail. When he asked why not I said that so many Scots had emigrated involuntarily that I couldn't be sure I'd like what I discovered.

"Aye," he replied, nodding wisely, "a mon kin spend ten pounds finding suthin' out, and a hundred more hushin' it up!"

. . . one thing I learned from genealogy research was that . . . it was almost the norm in ancestry research that the first born arrived around six weeks after the wedding. . . .

My grandmother (once I reached my 20's) was fond of saying that the first child could take anywhere from a day to a year, but all the later children took nine months each.

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