I was hugely impressed years ago when I first started out researching Family History. My late father in law announced that my husband had French ancestry and that he was a quarter French. Later I discovered this to be very true - his grandmother was a Susanna FRENCH! However, she had been born in Thorney, Cambridgeshire in 1793 and her father, William FRENCH, had been born in Cowbit 1798. Plenty of earlier FRENCH families in the area going back several hundred years - a long way from France! So any French blood would have been much diluted by 1891 when my father in law was born. Ann

Hello Ann, I like this one, shows your father in law had a sense of humour. Peter ======================================== Message Received: Feb 16 2014, 10:09 AM From: "Ann Widdowson" To: [email protected] Cc: Subject: [LIN] Myths I was hugely impressed years ago when I first started out researching Family History. My late father in law announced that my husband had French ancestry and that he was a quarter French. Later I discovered this to be very true - his grandmother was a Susanna FRENCH! However, she had been born in Thorney, Cambridgeshire in 1793 and her father, William FRENCH, had been born in Cowbit 1798. Plenty of earlier FRENCH families in the area going back several hundred years - a long way from France! So any French blood would have been much diluted by 1891 when my father in law was born. Ann ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message