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Originally Posted by renormalised
Makes for finding rellies pretty easy!!!!  
Lots of families were like that, though. Hardly moving around for hundreds of years. That's also why whole families were vulnerable to disease and could die out. They reckon something like 70-80% of the families that were extant during the period of the Middle Ages have left no living relations. Pretty amazing when you come to think about it, but understandable given the life they led back then. |
My wife's half croatian, half maltese, her grand father is german and my boy's born in France. Nobody understand each other, only at weddings when we're all pi**ed. So the blood is diluted now.
Wanna hear something scary? When I was a kid, we'd pack for holidays, get a trailer with the tents, get in the car, drive 100km to a camping ground and stay there for a month. That was the "big summer trip" of the year
. The oldies in my family speak a mix of French and Spanish called 'patois'. All those dialects disapear with the people because most are not written, just spoken. Each Valley has its own. You walk over the hill in another village and it's very likely people don't speak the same patois.
