Is Genes Reunited a purely English site?

[Russell]

Hi Andrew

My moan was not about rights but about phraseology. "Look up YOUR census." Its NOT my census when none of my family names appear on it!

I am objecting to erroneous advertising which implies that England is Britain Let's forget the other appendages since they don't matter.

I'm not a rabid Scot Nat or anything. I quite like being British as long as I am made to feel part of it and this doesn't give me that feeling.

By the way Lesley no hard feelings about hijacking the thread I put it up as a rant expecting a few others to feel the same. And they DO

Russell

[DavidWW]

.......snipped.............By the way Lesley no hard feelings about hijacking the thread I put it up as a rant expecting a few others to feel the same. And they DO

Russell

They do, they do !! The advantage that I have is that I can let rip on the subject during lectures and in articles ........... it may not solve the problem, but it makes me feel better

David
on the Gold Coast

[rdem]

Russell et al:

I have to concur, that I get annoyed when we are included as British when it is clearly English they mean. However, having said that I was initially excited to the prospect of Genes Reunited for it's Britishness since I was so tired of every other genealogical site being U.S. based, then I found Talking Scots and everything is alright with the world!!!!

[wini]

And SHE is still Elizabeth the first.
Not that I have blown up any mail boxes recently.
The youngsters won't know what I am talking about

wini

[alex19canteen]

They have Berwickshire in England too I sent them a wee message

[Rachel]

Probably it is, but if you "cant join them USE them" My first and main genealogical site is Scotlands People however I have found many connections on genes reunited and even a real live one. Before learning the Gaelic I think I will have to re learn the Glaswegian patter. I had a sad visit to Glasgow last week and found it hard to keep up with quick fire repartee. I have been away too long.
rachel

[davran]

I have to concur, that I get annoyed when we are included as British when it is clearly English they mean.

Isn't it interesting how terminology has changed? When I was a child growing up in S Africa in the '50s people would ask if I was ENGLISH. What they actually meant was BRITISH. ENGLISH included all parts of Britain!!! As it happens I WAS born and bred in England, though of Scottish descent, so I suppose I am truly BRITISH. However, I have a friend who insists that he is not BRITISH, but ENGLISH and thinks we should celebrate St George's day in the same way as the Scots, Irish and Welsh celebrate their saint's days.

I have no objection to being proud of where you were born and the culture of that country, but we are all part of a global family and there can be very few people in the British Isles who are PURE anything any more. Borders are artificial, political barriers, which are often meaningless to people living in remote places, who cross back and forth at will.

[DavidWW]

And SHE is still Elizabeth the first.
Not that I have blown up any mail boxes recently.
The youngsters won't know what I am talking about

wini

And on the Scottish red postboxes it's just "ER" after a long battle by the man who was one of the team who nicked the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.............

David
on the Gold Coast

[JimM]

the man who was one of the team who nicked the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.............

David
on the Gold Coast

Hi David
Surely you meant say repatriated

Jim

[DavidWW]

the man who was one of the team who nicked the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey.............

David
on the Gold Coast

Hi David
Surely you meant say repatriated

Jim

Not really , because that was never the correct one in the first place, instead being the pale copy of the orginal that was left for Edward and his minions to find

And even the one that was "returned" down South in 1960 something may well have been a modern copy of the replica that had been sitting down South for however many hundred years .........

David
on the Gold Coast