> From: medway48@xtra.co.nz > To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Roys Call For a Republic > > > That list says it all..Yorkshire run by sports jocks, actors and comic singers Comic singers? What comic singers, precisely? I only mentioned two singers..... KIKI DEE (aka Pauline Matthews from Bradford), who was a pop icon of the 1970s and 80s. LESLEY GARRETT, a world-famous operatic soprano who is known as the Doncaster Diva, though she was actually born at Thorne. She's as famous here as Kiri Te Kanawa and probably a better singer. As for actors, I didn't know New Zealand had any! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE