Spam sam 88?

[JWR]

You joined today and you are digging up old post???

If it looks like spam and smells like spam...

[blaine]

You joined today and you are digging up old post???

If it looks like spam and smells like spam...
Yep!! :2tup:

[jonathan180iq]

Dead is he now, upon the shores, of the lonely GZ island. Ne'r to grace, with us his presence, as I've closed his electronic eyelids.

[Water Warrior 2]

Feeling a bit poetic are you?? Well said. :rawk:

[Maggie]

Jonathan Chaucer...the GZerbury Tales :o)

[Water Warrior 2]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[jonathan180iq]

Coincidentally, Geoffrey Chaucer is my 23rd Great Grand Father, straight shot... no lie.

[Water Warrior 2]

That is a pretty tall family tree.

[Maggie]

Coincidentally, Geoffrey Chaucer is my 23rd Great Grand Father, straight shot... no lie.

Wow, that makes you a rock star in my book! In college, I had to learn the prelude to the Canterbury Tales IN MIDDLE ENGLISH!!! Despite much grumbling, I now thank my professor for this awesome jaw-dropper (usually at cocktail parties) LOL

[jonathan180iq]

Yeah, ancestry and lineage is a pretty big hobby of mine. I haven't done much work in recent years but I do remember that one. It blew my mind... I mean, my mother's family is of English and French heritage, and I've come across fairly prominent people throughout History, but they're always like 5th cousins twice removed... To be an actual grandfather... That's just the coolest thing ever.

I also have some connection to Sir Issac Newton, but it's so distant it doesn't really matter.
John Pledger, ESQ, was on the ship with the group of men who purchased the land that was to become New Jersey... I have a copy of his will. And he is a grand father also. That's pretty neat.

I learned the Presidents and States in alphabetical order and I can do it in less than 30 seconds... That's my dorky trick ;) Middle English kicks ass.

[Water Warrior 2]

Jonathan, you certainly have an inquiring mind. I'm not near that curious. All I know about grandparents concerns my paternal grandfather who was an American from Min. somewhere. I have always felt he likely dashed across the border in a hail of gunfire to avoid the law.
Your dorky trick is awesome.

[burkbuilds]

My dad always told us we shouldn't look to far into our family tree because we might find a horse thief, lol. I've done a little looking anyway and found out I'm mainly descended from a bunch of ornery old Scotch Irish on my dad's side and a bunch of Germans on my mom's side. No wonder I always seem to find myself in opposition to someone or something, ha, ha. My wife's family was much more entertaining in heritage, she's descended from Tennessee moonshiners on one side and a former Yankee officer on the other. Good thing I didn't know about the Yankee lineage before I married her, my family might have prevented the marriage. :) Many of my relatives still refer to the U.S. Civil War as "The War of Northern Aggression."