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[Kaneke]

however, what is interesting to me, is the other people I am marginally related to .. with some of the same ancestors

as diverse as Humphrey Bogart, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, the Smothers Brothers, Todd Eldredge, Jim Nantz, and Princess Di

 

[Mia_]

Various people in my family have looked into our heritage. I have an ancestor that signed the Declaration of Independence. I figure that this is not something that someone made up because I growing up, I learned that DAR meetings are boring and are made up of a bunch of little old ladies.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Must go out and chase cows, productive day already but not nearly done with, by a long shot.

(These messages brought to you by lunch).

 

[hallerlake]

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I take that back. I did discover that the Czarnomskis were gentry, and members of the Grabie clan, so our coat of arms is a wooden rake on a green and yellow ground. How appropriate.

I take that back. new research show us members of a different clan with a horseshoe on our shield.

just be sure you don't USE that coat of arms around someone who is aware of the usage of coats of arms ...

was carefully explained to me, that the only one allowed to use that, was the eldest son of the eldest son of the .. (you get the picture)

now it could be different in Poland ... because my informant was talking of British and French insignia ..
so it may follow the rules of Scottish clan tartan usage instead

some people become quite vehement about the matter ... (oopsie !)

my lot were mainly tradesmen ... grocers, curriers, shoemakers, cabinetmakers, smiths, tavern keepers; most of them also farmed, then there were the seacaptains and Reverends (lots of those) ... almost everyone here by 1690 ...

From Wikipedia-
Membership in a Polish clan does not always connote consanguinity or even territoriality, as do Scottish clan, but refers to the fact that member families belong to the same heraldic clan. This is why hundreds of different, sometimes unrelated families are to be found within the same clan with all of them being entitled to use the same coat of arms. For this reason, rather than being parallel to the Scottish clan model, the Polish clan system may be considered as being more akin to the Scandinavian ætt and the Germanic sippia.

Also from Wikipedia
Although the Polish heraldic system evolved under the influence of French and German heraldry, there are many notable differences.
The most striking peculiarity of the system is that a coat of arms does not belong to a single family. A number of unrelated families (sometimes hundreds of them), usually with a number of different family names, may use the same, undifferenced coat of arms, and each coat of arms has its own name. The total number of coats of arms in this system was relatively low – ca. 200 in the late Middle Ages. The same can be also seen in Western Europe, when families of different surnames but sharing clan origin would use similar coats-of-arms, the fleur-de-lis of the many Capetian families being perhaps the best known example.

 

[RustyHen]

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Thank you!

I also do pottery. Got to get into the studio and make Christmas gifts.
Poison Mug - each mug is a different colour, and has a different poison name on it
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_thallium.jpg

Little jewel pot - all different colours with different "crystal" tops and insides
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_blue_jewel_pot3.jpg

Pebble dish with luminary - after I made this one, hubby bought me a rock tumpler and a ton of nice rocks, so now I do all sorts of crystals, agates, jasper rocks etc.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_pebble_luminary.jpg

place settings - all different sizes (hubby makes most of them)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/76434_black_salad1.jpg

Got to keep busy - chicks, ducks, rabbits goats etc, just leaves me with so much time on my hands

Just beautiful

 

[RustyHen]

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I know how you feel, especially if you have put off doing something else and sit around waiting.

You did give me an idea though. Since I make pottery, I'm going to make some nice little honey jars and fill them with honey as Christmas gifts. I'm sure folks would like that, dontcha think?

 

[Kaneke]

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Julia, this one is for you (warning, mild profanity)

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...3411996_100152733428224_1471_1978445571_n.jpg

on second thought, maybe you ought to share it with CR too ....

 

[Stumpfarmer]

So, weaning started here, gutters cleaned, Long John Silver canes dragged off the roof and that particular piece of MMA-level rose pruning started, mere chores done, and also four loads of laundry dried on the line.

The weather satellites are giving me all sorts of mixed messages- there's a totally atypical giant cyclonic storm way north up by the Bering Strait, pulling the Pacific air circulation pattern out of whack. Cliff Mass, the man who really knows what he's talking about says that the weather could go to winter patterns by this weekend, which displeases me no end- but so far this winter the worst weather is going further north than usual. I'm reminded of the winter of 1979, when I was living in Seattle and too broke to take the bus, when there were two weeks of snow and daytime temperatures below 20F there and mere drizzle and thirty degrees warmer here- the worst weather was in the Puget Sound Convergence Zone. And for all the talk of La Nina, the ocean surface temperatures are warmer than they've projected. I really wish weather people had kept getting better at the rate they did right after the satellites went up, we'd not be left guessing ever.

Anyway, I ended up with a rose thorn cut on the inside of my left nostril, so anyone who's wished I be repremanded for my obnoxious know-it-all-ism has had their wish granted. Also ouch.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Julia, this one is for you (warning, mild profanity)

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...3411996_100152733428224_1471_1978445571_n.jpg

on second thought, maybe you ought to share it with CR too ....

Also goes well with my last sentence

 

[jbear]

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How about you enter them as chickens?

I don't think they'll have a "Crow" class.

haaaah!