Verite
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Reged: 19/08/2008
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I was talking to my dad yesterday. He's 79 this year and I was grumbling about a few things to do with family. Some how he always knows just what to say. Cheered me up and made me laugh.
This got me thinking that if the BBC did a period drama on my family it would be better than most dramas on TV today.
Ours would be full of scandal, family fights, war, love lost and gained and stolen. Luckily no murder plots that I know of  but a few darker stories of old ladies encouraged to change wills or money not going to the right people. Of courses this all goes back to around the beginning of the 19th Century. That's how far I have traced things on my Father's side. Darent think about my mothers...
So think it would be a cross of the following TV shows old and new.
To serve them all my days,upstairs downstairs, definitely a bit of Dallas and Dynasty,a wee bit of Millionaire and definitely a little dash of Thomas Hardy and Jane Austin thrown in for good measure even though these are writers.
So what about you.
Vx
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Verite
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Reged: 19/08/2008
Posts: 399
Loc: HONG KONG
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oh come on 4 of you have had a look and didn't want to comment !!!
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chilla
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Reged: 05/09/2008
Posts: 869
Loc: runcorn
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Sorry. I've not got a lot to say. No siblings, parents died a long time ago before i was in my 30s. My other half has one brother. Have no children. We are really boring family wise. And I just have no interest in meeting up with any cousins etc that are out there. I'm just not family orientated.
Do love the family history tracing programme (forget the name) on BBC. Patsy Kensit's and Jerry Springer's both had me snuffling 
Now I've answered Verite, can I go and do some work?
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When I have talked for an hour I feel lousy-
Not so when I have danced for an hour;
The dancers inherit the party
While the talkers wear themselves out and
Sit in corners, alone, and glower.
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chris_in_france
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Reged: 28/07/2008
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My family is very boring but my husbands is very colorful so much so that I have been known to get confused in the comings and goings , when I have told friends about then I think they think I am exaggerating , but I tell you it would be impossible to make it up lol .
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issi
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Reged: 30/09/2007
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Loc: Surrey
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I think it is fascinating Verite. I would love to trace my own ancestors but both my parents came from Eastern Europe so it would be quite a job, especially my mother's side as she lost all contact with them during the war.
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stellac
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Reged: 14/05/2008
Posts: 721
Loc: mauritius
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I am the eldest of 7 and my husband the eldest of 8 so there are loads of us, my mum is of Scottish descent,though born in London, she was evaquated to Somerset in the war. Dad was the illigitimate son of a randy Welshman and a Somerset maid brought up by his gran.
My mother was not happy when i turned up on the doorstep with OH who was definatly not British.
Nieces and nephews galore my favorite nephew Sam who was a young soldier in Iraq has travelled everywere and has brought his Japanese lady to meet the family before they emigrate to Australia.
My daughters have produced grandchildren and so it continues
STELLAX
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