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To: TobagoJack who wrote (72461)3/12/2010 6:17:54 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
>>in the temple is a stone tablet inscribed with a poem, and each generation is supposed to take the next word of the poem as middle name<<

Thanks TJ, that's a fascinating family custom. Hopefully all of the words in the poem are appropriate for naming purposes! ;)

Speaking of ancestral villages, Google just switched on nationwide "Street View" in Britain. I'm now having great fun browsing around the old George Stronge Cottage in the tiny hamlet of Chardstock, Devon. This quaint little field-stone thatched-roofed house dating back to the 1500s is my ancestral home, just as it was for my distant cousins Ben Jr. and Anna Louise... :0)

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Cheers,
-Snow
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