#west country: bristol mendips taunton
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i provided so much delight to my grandad when i found out he had ancestors that had been living in villages near the one he moved to for retirement for centuries and that it wasn't just post potato famine extreme poverty for his family and my mum loved it when i told her that her ancestors has spent so much time in the village that she could see out of her childhood bedroom window and that a hundreds of years old font that got moved to the church where her school had services was where where her 5x great grandfather and his siblings were baptised
#genealogy has really improved my relationship with my family#you should research your family history!#and if you are from the following pretty please tell me about it we might be related#west country: bristol mendips taunton#greater manchester#west yorkshire especially huddersfield#mid suffolk#derby nottingham area#humber shipping industry#potato famine stricken parts of ireland#east of swindon#and just north of the cotswalds#ephemeriee.txt
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