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Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sat, 16 May 2020 21:44:12 GMT

No, not a Gardening website, but one that may help identify where your family roots may have originated:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/15/oxford-surnames-dictionary-goes-free-for-family-bonding-in-lockdown

That should break the monotony for a few minutes 👍

Re: Find Your Roots...

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2020 02:00:20 GMT

Gutted.. my hair is so long I needed help finding my roots..

You are no longer my Sage

Re: Find Your Roots...

Cleoriff — Sun, 17 May 2020 06:38:13 GMT

I couldn't find mine, only derivatives of the my fathers name. As he didn't know who HIS father was, my previous attempts at finding my ancestry ended right there.

Re: Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sun, 17 May 2020 09:19:42 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Gutted.. my hair is so long I needed help finding my roots..

You are no longer my Sage

I still can't get into the "free" website - must be a con. Will have to try from laptop later.

For you, @Anonymous, I've always got Thyme

Re: Find Your Roots...

Mi-Amigo — Sun, 17 May 2020 10:14:19 GMT

@pgn

found mine, after clicking numerous pages as no search box, name showed but for details need to subscribe [one those "free for a month" then xxx type - which I`m always doubtful about] so left it.

Dunno if its a con or not but would`ve been interesting

Re: Find Your Roots...

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2020 10:24:00 GMT

I know where we're from, our roots were firmly planted across the Irish Sea for 200+ years until we settled in Yorkshire in the roaring 20s.

The search box

Thanks @pgn it's no big dill

Re: Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sun, 17 May 2020 10:26:41 GMT

That Surnames website's still not Cumin up for me, @Anonymous 🙄

Re: Find Your Roots...

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2020 11:30:53 GMT

I guess something just aren’t mint to be @pgn

Re: Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sun, 17 May 2020 11:46:30 GMT

Oregano go on in this vein for a while yet, @Anonymous?

Re: Find Your Roots...

Cleoriff — Sun, 17 May 2020 11:51:40 GMT

A bit like Basil Fawlty on here.....

Re: Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sun, 17 May 2020 12:14:33 GMT

Great! Now @Cleoriff Chives along... I was going to say "Cumin, why don't you?", but we've already used that one 🤣

Re: Find Your Roots...

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2020 12:33:42 GMT

I can’t Bayleaf anyone else would want to join in

Re: Find Your Roots...

Cleoriff — Sun, 17 May 2020 12:38:21 GMT

Dill Rosemary play I wonder?

Re: Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sun, 17 May 2020 12:52:17 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Dill Rosemary play I wonder?

No, she walked Parsley on the way here, the two of them wandered off somewhere together.

Re: Find Your Roots...

Mi-Amigo — Sun, 17 May 2020 13:19:51 GMT

Thyme and tide wait for no man

[or woman for that matter]

Re: Find Your Roots...

pgn — Sun, 17 May 2020 13:47:40 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thyme and tide wait for no man
[or woman for that matter]

Hmm. That's rubbed Marjoram up the wrong way! 🙄