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Hi
Anyone got any interesting ancestors .
Mine were Kent smugglers (more detail if this thread gets going) please let us know.

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I found out I am related to clan Shaw which I find terribly interesting given their history. However I can't vouch for the interest in the UK given that it is probably "just being Scottish". But I live in America and after researching back more than a hundred years I deserve to feel special about finding a name and a country.

"The Shaws are an ancient Scottish clan, which played a considerable role in Highland history, and which traces its ancestry to the old Earls of Fife and thus the royal line of the Scottish kings...The Shaws later migrated to the Americas with the fleet of the Mayflower."--From Wikipedia

My great grandmother was a Shaw.

Some of my ancestors were inventors of a sort.
I think oe of them studied bacteriophages and used them to clean up part of the East River... maybe it was. I m,ight not be remembering quite correctly though.
Another one did stuff that had to do with the development of charcoal water-filters. Hmm...

1 of them, I had meant.
typos.

One of my ancestors was Rhys ap Tewdwr, king of Deheubarth and an ancestor of Henry VII and all the other Tudors

One of my ancectors, if a spectre can claim such mortal ties, was a leader of the resistance during the turkish invasions through eastern eurpoe in the 13 century.

Yes, I discovered a lot of interesting ancestors.
One even got burried alive !

http://www.bethelks.edu/services/mla/images/martyrsmirror/mm%20bk2%20p793.jpg


My own Journal about it


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Greetings- alive and well - from Amsterdam