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You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
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The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,649 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	5 Jun 2016 00:33
	I did that in the impoverished ag lab days. I like broad bean tops - but not broad beans :-(
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	4 Jun 2016 13:39
	Broad bean tops. It seems you have to pinch the tops out of broad beans to stop blackfly , no, I don't know how either. Waste not, want not (think Glasshopper) so we are having them as a vegetable. It is not for the first time and they are delicious as, indeed, are the seed pods of radishes hat have been overlooked.

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