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    While I am very proud of the various (primarily British Isles) threads of my heritage, I always remember what my Dad said "It's more important to become a distinguished ancestor that to have a distinguished ancestor."
    Geoff Withnell

    "My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
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    Your Dad was a very wise man, Geoff.
    " Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.

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    Wise, indeed. I'll take that to heart, if I you don't mind - it IS an accident of birth anyways. My people were of no heraldry or social substance; servants or working class, and apparently too busy covenanting to concern themselves with accurate record keeping LoL...

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