tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post5110168294368547033..comments2024-02-29T06:03:35.483-05:00Comments on Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections: Uninteresting people in your family tree?JDRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06471656063812824731noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-65487507271245612802011-04-16T12:15:14.423-04:002011-04-16T12:15:14.423-04:00The question was "...on your family tree"...The question was "...on your family tree". I read that to mean it depends on how wide the responder has made their own family tree when they put it on paper or a family-tree program. If the war hero, pirate, politician or 52nd cousin once removed is there, he/she is there.Old Census Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292318972627916311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-45644630683933152612011-04-16T09:14:32.124-04:002011-04-16T09:14:32.124-04:00Now that's a question MAS. It would have been ...Now that's a question MAS. It would have been helpful if the original had specified. If I were answering I'd choose anyone in the family tree, except where I've expanded the question on royalty to be explicit. Otherwise I wouldn't be comfortable making the claim in the Ancestry press release.JDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06471656063812824731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-17321404665188670102011-04-16T08:56:04.688-04:002011-04-16T08:56:04.688-04:00Does the family tree include people who have marri...Does the family tree include people who have married into the family? e.g. uncle by marriage? or do you just mean blood relatives? MASAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-74368423848763519642011-04-16T07:44:54.404-04:002011-04-16T07:44:54.404-04:00I second the definition of "pirate". Do...I second the definition of "pirate". Does an Englishman who may have involved in the slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century count? I don't think my family, nor my husband's, is any more unusual than anyone else's, yet I seem to be turning up a healthy minority of free spirits/questionable characters/weirdos. I suggest people aren't looking close enough. They need Persephonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15560178981320189795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24066635.post-90889884117593022552011-04-16T01:12:42.909-04:002011-04-16T01:12:42.909-04:00I share your surprise. May one ask, how many surve...I share your surprise. May one ask, how many surveys were sent out for Ancestry to base its results on 1,000+ Canadians? To which genealogical societies were the surveys sent? Or elsewhere? Just out of curiosity, if these results are from No. 11 on the survey, what are the other questions?? And some of us desperately wonder what we all think "pirate" encompasses.BDMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13798944688122545676noreply@blogger.com