Sara All that research into to ships finally paid off !!! Pam >>> "Iain Sutherland" <iain_sutherland@totalise.co.uk> 05/22/03 10:03pm >>> I,m tremblin fair tremblin I thought the welsh were bad enough but Attila ooh heck Iain ----- Original Message ----- From: Sara Thomas <Sethomas@btinternet.com> To: <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: [SUT] Cheer up, everybody! [Off-topic] > Thought I'd share with you the news that I'm descended from Attila the > Hun. This is through a connection in my Craigie branch (Perthshire) > with the Drummond family. > > A cousin has sent a photocopy of a marvellous old book on the > Drummonds. Lots of fascinating info: e.g. Attila 'died on the night > of his marriage to the fair Ildica at the age of 124'. > > If that's not a warning to us all, harken to the fate of a descendant > of his, Sybilla, who died by eating 'a portion of her sister's > breakfast' --- that'll teach her! (She obviously forgot the Drummond > motto, which is "Gang Warily".) > > Sara > > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > To check out previous messages > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== To check out previous messages http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237