Re: Genealogy
There is a downside to all this ancestry thing.
My sister decided to dig into our ancestry and it transpires my family can trace its roots to Henry VIII.
This also involved several other families who were offshoots of the direct line.
Now, for me personally, I couldn't give a monkey's toss who was born on which side of what sheets, who begat who - it simply leaves me cold. If it put bread on the table, I might think differently.
Yet I am now finding that a load of strangers to me are claiming ownership to my family, posting images of same, together with photographs of the houses we lived in, without, certainly my, permission, in an orgy of faux snobbery. A quote from Facebook this morning.
"If there was one address that stuck in my head from when I was a child, it was 5 ######## Vale, ##########, ########, Wiltshire. My one Dream to some day meet my family who resided at this address. On the 20/08/2017, this dream came true for me. I got to see The home where my Nana Ella Aline ##### nee Hill and my Aunt Barbara #####nee ##### lived with their family. I have had the pleasure of meeting my cousins Robert #### Mike ###### Tracey ######## and members of their family. Needless to say this trip to the UK has been a memorable and emotional one for me."
What a load of utter, absolute, arrant bollocks!!!!
So beware all you genealogy buffs, you may get what you ask for.