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Gail E
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- Supporter of local soccer 🌊🌄🦅🏴‍☠️🍁
- Genealogy, genetic genealogy and local history enthusiast 🪦🌳
- lover of road trips and unusual roadside attractions 🚗🛣
- interested in the unexplained and mysterious 👻👽💀
- attempting to grow things and not kill them
Are the players no longer singing "stand by me?" with the fans when they win? Or was it just an "oops" last game that they didn't?

Was kind of weird to just be singing it to ourselves in the stands.
Missed having that opportunity to celebrate with the team.
March 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I similarly have Swedish background (very well documented) that often shows in these tests as Norwegian. The ancestral heritage in DNA tests isn't super accurate (borders moving, who has tested, etc).
Interestingly, I also have the Canadian prairies subset too - guessing that's your Swedish side?
February 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don't think it's fair to say Canada caved.... we were poised to hit back, and in discussion reiterated that we are still doing an investment in our borders (as announced in December, nothing to do with this recent stuff), and Trump "paused" for 30 days.
We also still stopped/paused US contracts
February 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I should note this wasn't Scandinavian or German - it was in Canada (and not Scandinavian or German decent). So it can happen all over the place.
February 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Are you digging in my family tree? That's two in a row!
My GGparents has a daughter Shirley who passed as an infant. Then their eldest son had a daughter that same year and named her Shirley.
Father and Son also had the same name (first, middle and last) so it is VERY confusing in the records.
February 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Fantastic! Thank you so much - now I know what my evenings will be taken up with for the next few days 😁
February 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Oooh, what is full-text search?
Some of my ancestors (Embree) are from Nova Scotia as well, and would love to learn some new ways to find more info (or more detailed info)
February 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I have a whole line of Fanny's and Fannies's (daughters named after mothers) and not one of them has ever had "Francis" on any documents.
Fanny and Fannie are switched around, once or twice Franny shows up, but never Francis.

Stone of my GG Gmother Fannie Sarah McCrimmon (nee Church)
February 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The worst is budgeting to finally pay for the subscription, because it looks like it has something/someone you are looking for, only to find it actually doesn't have that paper/place/name etc, that it's main page led you to believe was there 🤣
January 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Love finding old newspaper articles - gives a more personal glimpse into who people were, beyond simply names dates and places.
I also hate how many things are behind various subscription pay walls :(
I get it - it takes peoples time to scan/upload/catalog it all.
January 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I also wish young me had paid more attention, asked more questions, and written things down, with regards to family stories and history 😑
January 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM