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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
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: January 2004 Posts: 27,026 Send Message	Von	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:45
	Maybe it’s the same billy who didn’t have any mates ;-)
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 14,736 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:45
	Thanks for that Ann a fully comprehensive answer if I may say so. :-) I lived in the Midlands but never heard of that one before. :-S Maybe like Up In Annies Room Behind the Clock, when something cannot be found. :-D :-D
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 49,262 Send Message	Ann	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:45
	Steady Von :-0 :-0 :-D
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 90,317 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:44
	Thanks for that Ann :-D :-D
	Researching: Go on, make my day!
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 27,026 Send Message	Von	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:44
	I’ve just closed my windows as I was getting chilly. Mind you I was wearing shorts ;-) ;-)
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 90,317 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:43
	It must be a Yorkie saying ;-) :-D
	Researching: Go on, make my day!
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 121,132 Send Message	Fly	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:43
	Gusty wind here Ann :-)
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 14,736 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:42
	Even more confused now Belle. :-D :-D
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 49,262 Send Message	Ann	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:42
	It's looking a bit black over Bill's mother's, is often heard in the English Midlands when dark clouds appear on the horizon, heralding rain. But who is Bill? "When I was a young boy the only person I knew called Bill was very old and it made me wonder how old must Bill's mother be?," said Matt McHugh, who contacted BBC News seeking the origin of the phrase. "And why does she move house so much?" Some believe "Bill" refers to William Shakespeare, whose mother Mary Arden lived in Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, the smart money is on Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German emperor and king of Prussia, abdicating at the end of World War One. Germany's foreign policy at that time echoed Wilhelm's changeable and blustering character, according to the Open University., external Black Country poet Brendan Hawthorne, external said: "If there was stormy weather coming from the East they would say it's black over Bill's mother's." :-D :-D
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 90,317 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:42
	....and here, I have the bay windows open and it is very pleasant :-D
	Researching: Go on, make my day!
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 121,132 Send Message	Fly	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:42
	Billy lives over yonder MG :-D
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 90,317 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:41
	Fly normally Maddie ;-) :-D
	Researching: Go on, make my day!
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 27,026 Send Message	Von	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:40
	Still sunny here just saying ;-) ;-)
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 49,262 Send Message	Ann	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:40
	I am Belle :-D :-D
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 14,736 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:40
	Who is Billy? :-S
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 90,317 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:39
	Translate Fly :-S :-D :-D
	Researching: Go on, make my day!
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 49,262 Send Message	Ann	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:39
	Been weird weather here Fly…blue skies then black cloud…..bits of rain and a really strong wind :-0 Think they have given gales for up North :-0
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 90,317 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:39
	Are you splitting hairs Ann :-D :-D
	Researching: Go on, make my day!
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 14,736 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:39
	Breakfast or lunchtime show host along with a female presenter. Belle. :-)
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 49,262 Send Message	Ann	Report	27 Jun 2024 19:38
	Today and tomorrow Belle…get it right :-D :-D

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