History of Parish Registers: "In 1497 Cardinal Ximenes introduced the registration of baptisms to his province of Toledo, then throughout western Europe. No doubt his aim was to check the growing scandal of wholesale divorces, disguised as decrees of nullity, based on the alleged spiritual kinship contracted at baptism between the baptised and his relatives, and the sponsors and their relatives. How far this notion had gone may be seen from such instances as that of John Hawthorn of Tunbridge, who was sentenced in 1463 to be whipped thrice round church and market for incest, i.e. for marrying as a second wife the god-daughter of his first. On 11 November 1563, the Roman Catholic church ordered the general keeping of baptismal and marriage registers.

Meanwhile in England, a raft of reforming measures was consolidating the split with Rome and the Reformation. Among these, on 5 September 1538, Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal and the king's vicegerent, ordered that every parson, vicar or curate enter in a book every wedding, christening and burial in his parish, with the names of the parties. The entries were to be made each Sunday after the service, in the presence of one of the churchwardens. The parish was to provide a 'sure coffer' with two locks, the parson having custody of one key, and the wardens the other."

so any genealogy before these dates is largely fiction unless tied to the great families of land owners.

">Overførsel af arkivalier

Danmark må regnes som et foregangsland, når talen er om overførsel af originale arkivalier herfra til andre lande. Et par aktuelle eksempler vedrører Norge og US Virgin Islands (De tidligere Danskvestindiske Øer).


Danes weeding their achives
and sending matierial to Norway, and the Virgin Islands

Google Search: "very model of a modern"

and lots of them

thank you Roy !: "I am the very model of a modern genealogist
I`ve information greater than the greatest anthropologist
I search all day with Google for ancestral lines historical
From Will the Conq and Viking gods back to the Delphic Oracle
I`m very good at finding too progenitors armorial
My pedigree`s a work of art, a heraldry tutorial
My lineage is full of knights, ancestors all immaculate
Yet some do sneer and foully claim my research is not accurate
(Chorus)
Yet some do sneer and foully claim his research is not accurate
Yet some do sneer and foully claim his research is not accurate"

'Labotomised Lugworm'Google Search: 'Lobotomized Lugworm'

RootsWeb: GLAMORGAN-L Re: GLAMORGAN-D Digest V01 #34: "Well said - well done. Now you've gone and got me interested in the Cornish
language; an I was quite happy with a few blue-eyed Indians. Must admit
though, that all this 'fun' stretches us. Well, some of us."

searching archives: "
> Hi everyone,
> What is a 'Labotomised Lugworm'?
> Is this Welsh or another language? I came across it on one of my virtual
tours of Glamorgan and wondered wether anyone else knew what it meant.
> Should it be Llabotomisedd Llugworm?
> Kind regards,
> Debbie."

RootsWeb Mailing List Archives: "Welcome to RootsWeb's threaded mail archives!"

RootsWeb: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L [Cmn-L] Fw: lobotomized lugworm: "'lobotomized lugworm'"

supposedly a thread onthe Glamorgan list

Gabion: Welsh Phoenix: The Wales Millennium Centre 1/2: "When the wind blows across Cardiff Bay - and it blows like fury - lugworms become detached from the tidal mudflats and splatter themselves against the walls of the surrounding buildings. Lugworms have no recorded views on architectural styles, but they do cling tenaciously to glass. After a bad storm, you have to scrape them off with a spatula, like old chewing-gum. It is important to know this: it explains why Cardiff is building itself a tidal barrage at huge expense, to turn the mud into a permanent, fresh-water lagoon.

On the edge of this lagoon - still a year off completion - will stand Richard Rogers' very glassy Welsh Assembly building, so anti-lugworm measures cannot come soon enough."

Gabion: Welsh Phoenix: The Wales Millennium Centre 1/2: "When the wind blows across Cardiff Bay - and it blows like fury - lugworms become detached from the tidal mudflats and splatter themselves against the walls of the surrounding buildings. Lugworms have no recorded views on architectural styles, but they do cling tenaciously to glass. After a bad storm, you have to scrape them off with a spatula, like old chewing-gum. It is important to know this: it explains why Cardiff is building itself a tidal barrage at huge expense, to turn the mud into a permanent, fresh-water lagoon.

On the edge of this lagoon - still a year off completion - will stand Richard Rogers' very glassy Welsh Assembly building, so anti-lugworm measures cannot come soon enough."

Google Search: welsh lugworm

Something for Calum (sorry all): "One day
later I had word from Derek Colby to tell me that the original was written
in 1994 by the Swansea poet Nigel Jenkins who, like so many Welsh people,
had enjoyed watching then Welsh secretary John Redwood singing the anthem
on TV 'like a pixillated carp'. He sent it to the Welsh office as a sort of
favour, and heard no more about it until he read how Ffion, then a civil
servant, had deployed it to train her man.

The full version, entitled: 'Some Words for English Viceroys, Rugby Players
and Others, in Abuser-Friendly English, To Help Them Con Televiewers That
They Can Sing the Welsh National Anthem' appears in Mr Jenkins's book of
poems, Ambush (Gomer Press, Llandysul). It is slightly different from
Ffion's version (and infinitely better than my bodged attempt last week).
As a poem in its own right, it has a splendid Edward Lear feel:

My hen laid a haddock, one hand oiled a flea,
Glad farts and centurions threw dogs in the sea
I could stew a hare here and brandish Dan's flan,
Don's ruddy bog's blocked up with sand.
Dad! Dad! Why don't you oil Auntie Glad?
Can't whores appear in beer bottle pies?
O butter the hens as they fly!

Other readers have offered other versions, and it's amazing how different
they are. Take the last line: 'Better henny-eyed, bar-high'(Will Parker);
'Oh boy, my dear hen is so high'(Valerie Lewis), 'Oh bother it, hen he hath
bar high'(Michael and Katherine Lewis, Valerie's husband and daughter) and
from David Lloyd of Bushey, what sounds like a despairing surrender: 'Oh,
buddy, please find me a bar!'"

and the Danish ?

Hugh W

reposted from 1805

Some Icelandic horse-names

a pearl of a page

>> Langhús is a training-station where horses are bred, trained and traded. We have around 35 horses at all ages. Our barn houses 15 horses, some of them ours, some of them that come for training. All our broodmares are trained, most of them are shown and evaluated, and we only use 1st prize stallions as sires. Thus, all the horses we breed are found in the Icelandic studbook. We are A-breeders, that is to say our foals are marked with microchips, and we are thorough about papers. We also run an over-average sized dairy-farm, with around 35 cows, have 18 sheep and more animals.
<<

www.icelandichorse.is - Langhús Farm and Disa is knitting Icelandic sweaters for you.

Welsh Archives FAQ been doing this all afternoon
and finally it is beginning to look more finished

Conwy Archives Service
at http://www.conwy.gov.uk/archives this web site has been broken for weeksI got depressd by this
so have emailed the county archivist

I hate the gov uk webmasters
they make silly changes
for their own convenience
without the curtesy to make links to new URL
ther are exceptions like Birmingham which supplies static links amongst the dynamic html which is administratively so much easier