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From: "Janenne Garner" <>
Subject: Re: The Queen
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:52:23 +1000
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I guess that makes us Colonial Cousins, Mary Anne! Oddly enough, when I
survey the 'notables' on one side of my Tree I don't feel anything special -
maybe because I grew up knowing about some of it - but it does make the
reading of English/British history more entertaining!
In my case, some of our best connections are thanks to James IV's roving
eye -(seems to have been a Stewart trait) which produced Janet Stewart - not
to mention a number of others - who was married off to a minor nobleman,
but whose grand-daughter married into one of the more powerful Scots
families!
The best part of having 'names' in the Family Tree is that they're so well
documented it makes extended research much easier!

Jan,
(in a very chilly Melbourne, Oz)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Anne Sibley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: The Queen


> The Royal Family has done nothing different than the heads of other
> countries...Canada, US included.
>
> I too, thought the sun rose and set on Diana, but she was human, and so
are
> they all. Maybe I am naive, but I do not expect people to be Saints.
>
> We do have something that most countries have never known....the
> Monarchy...the pomp and ceremony which are envied everywhere.
>
> Do not condemn them for their human failings (and if Queen Elizabeth has
> failed us, I have never heard of it). We do not have to care for their
> personal lives, but we definitely should care for them as the
> head of our country (as I said I am a Canadian, and still feel that way).
>
> Although this has nothing to do with my opinion, and unfortunately it is
> not totally documented, my lineage tells me that I am 29th cousin, 3 times
> removed from Queen Elizabeth, through Richard II Duke of Normandy and
> Judith of Brittany.........
>
> On to adding more info to my database of 37,000.
>
> Good luck in your research everyone. Mary Anne
>
> ______________________________

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