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Russian Fedration wrote:I ment my Oil.

All yall gonna need Oil for your Planes and Tanks . and us Back Water Afghanis wont have any need for it at that time

I'm talking about MT.... MT we won't really use oil.

Russian Fedration

Friedensreich wrote:I'm talking about MT.... MT we won't really use oil.

OHHHHH !!!!

WELL how about you instead negotiate and strike a deal for it ?

Friedensreich wrote:Actually, Zeppelins were nearly impossible to take down from the air until later on when the British Royal Air Force deployed inciendiary ammunition in their planes. Ordinary machine gun bullets didn't do diddly squat against a Zeppelin, let alone the fact that Zeppelins normally flew much higher than any other plane for the time.

Before this, the RAF tried to use rockets to take down Zeppelins but those unsurpisingly failed miserably.

The operative words there was "bursting charge".

In order to effectively do their job, they'd have to maintain a low enough altitude to be able to look down and search for Sub's from above (too high up and they'll be unable to make out much below the water) while also keeping speed with the fleet...which puts them in danger from the guns of the fleets at battle, especially if those ships were loaded with HE/HEI.

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Kalaron wrote:The operative words there was "bursting charge".

In order to effectively do their job, they'd have to maintain a low enough altitude to be able to look down and search for Sub's from above (too high up and they'll be unable to make out much below the water) while also keeping speed with the fleet...which puts them in danger from the guns of the fleets at battle, especially if those ships were loaded with HE/HEI.

There were hydrophones during WWI? Huh 🙃

Penguania And Antarctica

Andromitus wrote:There were hydrophones during WWI? Huh 🙃

Well, at least late WWI, but I'm not that anal about things.

Andromitus

Здравствуйте, я вернулся 😄🇷🇺

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The Russian Federations wrote:Здравствуйте, я вернулся 😄🇷🇺

Blasphemy

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Vista Major wrote:Blasphemy

I've been in Lazarus. Trying to help out there. Hows been CFN akaNGA

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The Russian Federations wrote:Здравствуйте, я вернулся 😄🇷🇺

Привет, добро пожаловать!

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Russian Fedration wrote:Привет, добро пожаловать!

Кто ты?

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The Russian Federations wrote:Здравствуйте, я вернулся 😄🇷🇺

I would speak Russian back but I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard - funny story, first time I used Russian in person was outside of an off license in some sh*tty borough of Moscow when some drunk came up to me and tried to come back with me to the hotel. It was both sh*t scary and funny in hindsight, but I managed to play it off chill. He did keep offering to buy me and my two friends alcohol though but thankfully I got him talking and eventually the police came to shut down the off license and bundled him in a van. When they told us to move we never ran so fast on ice in our life.

Russian Fedration, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Есть только комната для одной России! 🤔

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Yukona wrote:I would speak Russian back but I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard - funny story, first time I used Russian in person was outside of an off license in some sh*tty borough of Moscow when some drunk came up to me and tried to come back with me to the hotel. It was both sh*t scary and funny in hindsight, but I managed to play it off chill. He did keep offering to buy me and my two friends alcohol though but thankfully I got him talking and eventually the police came to shut down the off license and bundled him in a van. When they told us to move we never ran so fast on ice in our life.

Yeah you'll get people who either love tourist or the ones who hate them. Moscow is a friendly place

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The Russian Federations wrote:Yeah you'll get people who either love tourist or the ones who hate them. Moscow is a friendly place

There was a real juxtaposition between those two types, I actually found St. Petersburg worse - especially the train journey

Yukona wrote:There was a real juxtaposition between those two types, I actually found St. Petersburg worse - especially the train journey

Ever been to Volgograd? I'm from there, my bro Arch is from Archanglsk way up north

Russian Fedration

The Russian Federations wrote:Ever been to Volgograd? I'm from there, my bro Arch is from Archanglsk way up north

Nah, I've been to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Pskov and Kazan. I would like to do Volgograd, though, but I'm not sure if I will return to Russia any time soon, so much of the world to explore. It was fun but equally scary for a foreigner like me.

Russian Fedration, Nuremgard

The Russian Federations wrote:Кто ты?

Российская Федерация. Я просто переехал сюда.

The Russian Federations wrote:Есть только комната для одной России! 🤔

I would have to agree.

Russian Fedration wrote:Российская Федерация. Я просто переехал сюда.

I would have to agree.

Новичок 😉

Russian Fedration

Oh Ok [nation=short]Baxten[/nation] the Confusion makes alot more sense now !

My main is 82nd in the world for largest defense stat. O.O

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Yukona wrote:Nah, I've been to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Pskov and Kazan. I would like to do Volgograd, though, but I'm not sure if I will return to Russia any time soon, so much of the world to explore. It was fun but equally scary for a foreigner like me.

As long as you didn't run into any facsist scum your fine. They're all Russia for Russians and are just Дерьмо

Russian Fedration

The Russian Federations wrote:Новичок 😉

В регион, да.

В игру, а не на длинный выстрел.

It dropped almost 20k points somehow and I'm still 82nd that should say something.

Jaslandia, Oelesa

Representing Vidnoye, Moscow!

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Modern Tech Helghan wrote:My main is 82nd in the world for largest defense stat. O.O

yea...im not that good sadly

Modern Tech Helghan

The Vidnoye wrote:Representing Vidnoye, Moscow!

Representing Norl'sk and our Nickle!

I'm all cool with Russia for Russians but hey we should never be that extreme or hateful.

Russian Fedration

The Russian Federations wrote:I'm all cool with Russia for Russians but hey we should never be that extreme or hateful.

As long as there not a Nazi lover im ok.

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The Russian Federations wrote:As long as you didn't run into any facsist scum your fine. They're all Russia for Russians and are just Дерьмо

One security was a total asshole to me and acted a bit nationalistic, but I had my Russian friend with me who's a 6ft something basket ball player so it 'twas alright

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Russian Fedration wrote:В регион, да.

В игру, а не на длинный выстрел.

Я был в течение десятилетия

Russian Fedration

The Russian Federations wrote:Я был в течение десятилетия

Интересно. Это не должно быть вашим главным.

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Russian Fedration wrote:Интересно. Это не должно быть вашим главным.

Вы поддерживаете Единую Россию или Коммунистическую партию?

Лазарь был моим первым.

Russian Fedration

Yukona wrote:One security was a total asshole to me and acted a bit nationalistic, but I had my Russian friend with me who's a 6ft something basket ball player so it 'twas alright

I've lived in america since I was young. My mother is American and my Father Russian.

One old school strict and one's more lenient.

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Russian Fedration wrote:yea...im not that good sadly

If I had a high sci adv on that nation (well higher than 650) then I would wage eternal war against AMMO :-p

Russian Fedration

The Russian Federations wrote:Вы поддерживаете Единую Россию или Коммунистическую партию?

Лазарь был моим первым.

Мне нравятся оба, но я поддерживаю Единую Россию больше, чем КПРФ

Modern Tech Helghan wrote:If I had a high sci adv on that nation (well higher than 650) then I would wage eternal war against AMMO :-p

I would love to help you with that!

Russian Fedration wrote:Мне нравятся оба, но я поддерживаю Единую Россию больше, чем КПРФ

Согласовано

Russian Fedration

Kalaron wrote:The operative words there was "bursting charge".

In order to effectively do their job, they'd have to maintain a low enough altitude to be able to look down and search for Sub's from above (too high up and they'll be unable to make out much below the water) while also keeping speed with the fleet...which puts them in danger from the guns of the fleets at battle, especially if those ships were loaded with HE/HEI.

The operative words in my statement was "Let alone Zeppelins flew much higher than any other plane at the time". This hints at a huge advantage of the use of the Zeppelin during this time period, and the biggest reason why most missions for Zeppelins during WW1 were not combative in nature. Out of the thousand or so missions with Zeppelins, only 50 were for bombing or direct combat.

Naval patrols, reconnaissance, and escorts with Zeppelins have been claimed to be why the British navy wasn't able to approach Germany, and why most British attempts at laying mines in the North Sea failed.

Zeppelins were able to fly out of range of British air defenses (The range of QF 1P "Pom Pom" is minuscule compared to maximum altitude of a Zeppelin during WW1- upwards of 6,400 m compared to the Pom Pom's 4,110) and alert naval patrols and fleets of a British force in the area.

So, in context of what Andromitus wants to do, using Zeppelins as a naval escort, it is a tried and true method. Zeppelins were effective as naval escorts and were even better at reconnaissance. Now, if he's talking about using the Zeppelins as a sort of bomber/fighting machine, of corse it'll get stomped. Because like you said, it would have to get into range, which was coincidentally in range of enemy anti-air.

Russian Fedration

Russian Fedration wrote:I would love to help you with that!

I would love the Help.

Russian Fedration

Friedensreich wrote:I'm talking about MT.... MT we won't really use oil.

Um...but you kinda will. MT equals present day, and last I checked, oil was quite the commodity in the present day

Russian Fedration

Russian Fedration wrote:Representing Norl'sk and our Nickle!

Repping Indianapolis and ancestral home city of Kaiserslautern!

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The Russian Federations wrote:Согласовано

Xорошо :)

Baxten wrote:Um...but you kinda will. MT equals present day, and last I checked, oil was quite the commodity in the present day

Umm.... biofuel is a thing.

Russian Fedration

Modern Tech Helghan wrote:I would love the Help.

I'd be happy to

Friedensreich wrote:Repping Indianapolis and ancestral home city of Kaiserslautern!

Who's that?

Penguania And Antarctica

Russian Fedration wrote:I'd be happy to

Who's that?

Kaiserslautern? It's a city in western Germany.

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Friedensreich wrote:Kaiserslautern? It's a city in western Germany.

Oh wow! i didnt know that. thats cool how you can track your Ancestors all the way back like that

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Just so people dont think its just them thinking it, Fried has been adament about being a totally green and eco-clean war machine since the begining of time.

Same with Rus Fed but with space stuff :)

Russian Fedration, Friedensreich

Russian Fedration wrote:Oh wow! i didnt know that. thats cool how you can track your Ancestors all the way back like that

I'm part Irish and part English. My Irish side comes from Malin Head, County Donegal (the most northerly part of Ireland); it's Clann O'Doherty and our branch is called the Bush Doherty's although we have a lot of Black Doherty's in our tree too. My English side has a small amount of Jewish sprinkled in there that I know who it comes from but not after them, however going right back they come from Norman nobility as my surname means "son of Richard" when augmented slightly in Norman. I'm fairly sure it's Richard I of Rouen, although I'm not sure as he didn't come over to England, although his dates could line up with the Norman invasion of England and the appearance of my family in southern England (where they are mostly concentrated). Whether or not we were direct nobility or perhaps associates or servants/undermen of this Lord, or part Lord ourselves, I don't know as I don't exactly know how Norman naming systems work and what that means for me.

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Russian Fedration wrote:Oh wow! i didnt know that. thats cool how you can track your Ancestors all the way back like that

It's just 150 years or so :P

We're such a young "branch" of my family that we can still find relatives in places like the former lands of Prussia (now Poland) and Kaiserslautern. Of course, that's after we "un-Americanize" our surnames.

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The Vidnoye wrote:Just so people dont think its just them thinking it, Fried has been adament about being a totally green and eco-clean war machine since the begining of time.

Same with Rus Fed but with space stuff :)

Thats very true my friend.

Remember to run for office. There are no limits to how many candidates can run for an office; the more, the better, always.

Russian Fedration, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Friedensreich wrote:It's just 150 years or so :P

We're such a young "branch" of my family that we can still find relatives in places like the former lands of Prussia (now Poland) and Kaiserslautern. Of course, that's after we "un-Americanize" our surnames.

Ah ok. Thats cool i always wanted to take the ancestry .com thing my self.

Yukona wrote:I'm part Irish and part English. My Irish side comes from Malin Head, County Donegal (the most northerly part of Ireland); it's Clann O'Doherty and our branch is called the Bush Doherty's although we have a lot of Black Doherty's in our tree too. My English side has a small amount of Jewish sprinkled in there that I know who it comes from but not after them, however going right back they come from Norman nobility as my surname means "son of Richard" when augmented slightly in Norman. I'm fairly sure it's Richard I of Rouen, although I'm not sure as he didn't come over to England, although his dates could line up with the Norman invasion of England and the appearance of my family in southern England (where they are mostly concentrated). Whether or not we were direct nobility or perhaps associates or servants/undermen of this Lord, or part Lord ourselves, I don't know as I don't exactly know how Norman naming systems work and what that means for me.

Wow your Pretty mixed lol

you really know about your past dont ya . Can i ask how was it like good Family record keeping or was it a Scavenger hunt?

Friedensreich wrote:The operative words in my statement was "Let alone Zeppelins flew much higher than any other plane at the time". This hints at a huge advantage of the use of the Zeppelin during this time period, and the biggest reason why most missions for Zeppelins during WW1 were not combative in nature. Out of the thousand or so missions with Zeppelins, only 50 were for bombing or direct combat.

Naval patrols, reconnaissance, and escorts with Zeppelins have been claimed to be why the British navy wasn't able to approach Germany, and why most British attempts at laying mines in the North Sea failed.

Zeppelins were able to fly out of range of British air defenses (The range of QF 1P "Pom Pom" is minuscule compared to maximum altitude of a Zeppelin during WW1- upwards of 6,400 m compared to the Pom Pom's 4,110) and alert naval patrols and fleets of a British force in the area.

So, in context of what Andromitus wants to do, using Zeppelins as a naval escort, it is a tried and true method. Zeppelins were effective as naval escorts and were even better at reconnaissance. Now, if he's talking about using the Zeppelins as a sort of bomber/fighting machine, of corse it'll get stomped. Because like you said, it would have to get into range, which was coincidentally in range of enemy anti-air.

Yes, as a scouting platform searching for a surface fleet, they could be effective at the maximum altitude...but he was talking from the perspective of them searching for submarines, thus implying a much lower altitude than the grand 6K or so meters up.

As I said, this sort of low altitude observation is less efficient than...say...the Hydrophone while also carrying the risk of being destroyed by anything with a HEI load (And considering that it isn't impossible to affix low caliber guns on a submarine either...) so the question of surface fleets is as immaterial as it can be.

The Vidnoye wrote:Just so people dont think its just them thinking it, Fried has been adament about being a totally green and eco-clean war machine since the begining of time.

Same with Rus Fed but with space stuff :)

Yep. If there were five things that made us unique, it would be eco-friendliness, bloodthirst, trade, socialism, and isolationism.

But I'm fine with forgoing some of my more "advanced" technologies from TNI as long as I don't have to completely trash my eco-friendliness and general lore.

Russian Fedration

Russian Fedration wrote:Ah ok. Thats cool i always wanted to take the ancestry .com thing my self.

Wow your Pretty mixed lol

you really know about your past dont ya . Can i ask how was it like good Family record keeping or was it a Scavenger hunt?

It's initially quite easy, as I've got a lot of living family that you can just go back through, ask them about their parents, go back, etc. etc. But once you start getting to deceased it gets increasingly more difficult. Initially, you've got to remember you're dealing with someone's parents and your grand dad might not feel great about you rooting about his mum's history. Once I got over that initial hurdle it was basically just doing a lot of hunting into the name and trying to link other people's branches of my name with mine. I found out that my people are commonly located around the Somerset/Dorset area and quite a few are rich land owners/farmers. From this I phoned up councils and local historians who led me even further into records and I managed to get back to about the 1600s, but once I got past that it went a bit dark. From what I can assume based off what I found out, my family were either landed gentry dating right back to the Normans or found their fortune somehow. Obviously the family also expanded and whether or not I'm directly linked to France is another shot in the dark, although considering me and my Dad have quite olive skin and Mediterranean features I could hazard a guess, but it's just a guess.

On the Irish side, it was bloody easy. The Clann's tighter than anything and there's usually a bunch of Yanks who think they're 100% Irish willing to give you all their records. You can trace the Clann right back to the early Middle Ages and look at my direct ancestors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Doherty_family. In fact, a lot of the information about the Doherty Clann is compiled in one area in each sept, all I needed to do was ask my family and they eventually pointed to the right person who had a large family tree I could work off with ease. I managed to get really far back, but the lines get hazy at that point.

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Baxten wrote:Um...but you kinda will. MT equals present day, and last I checked, oil was quite the commodity in the present day

Renewable plus thorium and fast reactors

Friedensreich wrote:Yep. If there were five things that made us unique, it would be eco-friendliness, bloodthirst, trade, socialism, and isolationism.

But I'm fine with forgoing some of my more "advanced" technologies from TNI as long as I don't have to completely trash my eco-friendliness and general lore.

By isolationism I hope you don't mean autarkism

Russian Fedration

Friedensreich wrote:Umm.... biofuel is a thing.

Yes, but you can't run a whole nation on biofuel. If we could (I really wish we could, too), this world would be much better

Yukona wrote:It's initially quite easy, as I've got a lot of living family that you can just go back through, ask them about their parents, go back, etc. etc. But once you start getting to deceased it gets increasingly more difficult. Initially, you've got to remember you're dealing with someone's parents and your grand dad might not feel great about you rooting about his mum's history. Once I got over that initial hurdle it was basically just doing a lot of hunting into the name and trying to link other people's branches of my name with mine. I found out that my people are commonly located around the Somerset/Dorset area and quite a few are rich land owners/farmers. From this I phoned up councils and local historians who led me even further into records and I managed to get back to about the 1600s, but once I got past that it went a bit dark. From what I can assume based off what I found out, my family were either landed gentry dating right back to the Normans or found their fortune somehow. Obviously the family also expanded and whether or not I'm directly linked to France is another shot in the dark, although considering me and my Dad have quite olive skin and Mediterranean features I could hazard a guess, but it's just a guess.

On the Irish side, it was bloody easy. The Clann's tighter than anything and there's usually a bunch of Yanks who think they're 100% Irish willing to give you all their records. You can trace the Clann right back to the early Middle Ages and look at my direct ancestors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Doherty_family. In fact, a lot of the information about the Doherty Clann is compiled in one area in each sept, all I needed to do was ask my family and they eventually pointed to the right person who had a large family tree I could work off with ease. I managed to get really far back, but the lines get hazy at that point.

Eating dinner sorry about that.

wow thats cool and i can totally understand about the caution needed to be taken. The Furthest my dads been able to Trace back was 1791 but after that we really dont have anything and People wise they really arent many or there not here anymore witch is bumming.

Thats so cool tho i wish i was able to do that. Thats just so cool well Kudos to you i think more people should learn about there pasts

Yukona

Hey! It's really interesting to read about you guy's family history.

Unfortunately mines is very dull...200 years of people from the West of Scotland...I live in Glasgow, so you can tell my family has came a long way :P

The only interesting facts about my family is that there was a great great great...great uncle who destroyed all family records. He was a member of the church. So must of found something dodgy.

My family tree goes back to the late 1700s...to where they lived on a farm in Kintyre, owned today by Paul McCartney.

Incidentally this is my only tenuous link to someone famous.

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Baxten wrote:Yes, but you can't run a whole nation on biofuel. If we could (I really wish we could, too), this world would be much better

I mean, it's not just biofuel that they'd need.

Oil is used in so many applications (glances worriedly at the military) that attempting to remove it like kebab would run straight into that wall at least.

I'll read through their factbooks to take a look at what they may need to audit.

Russian Fedration

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Hug a Friend Day

- Hug an Australian Day

I actually did both of these today at the same time (as in, the person is both an Australian and a friend of mine), before I even knew either of them were holidays. I'm on top of it.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1777 – Legend tells that Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces

https://youtu.be/4OmrMY-c9Ic

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Nevermind. Kevin O'Leary dropped out of the Tory leadership race and endorsed my man Maxime Bernier.

No sobbing for me today!

I enjoy Kevin O'Leary on Shark Tank (or Dragons' Den, to you Canadians), but I would not want him as PM of Canada. We already have one businessman-turned-reality-TV-star as a world leader, and that's more than enough.

The Russian Federations wrote:Здравствуйте, я вернулся 😄🇷🇺

RF! It's been so long! How are you?

Calofas wrote:Hey! It's really interesting to read about you guy's family history.

Unfortunately mines is very dull...200 years of people from the West of Scotland...I live in Glasgow, so you can tell my family has came a long way :P

The only interesting facts about my family is that there was a great great great...great uncle who destroyed all family records. He was a member of the church. So must of found something dodgy.

My family tree goes back to the late 1700s...to where they lived on a farm in Kintyre, owned today by Paul McCartney.

Incidentally this is my only tenuous link to someone famous.

My Gifted teacher helped me do some research into my family history in 8th grade, or at least my dad's side. They came from Naples, Italy in the early 1900s (around 1907). My great-grandparents married around 1917, and had their first child (my great-aunt) in 1918; my grandfather was their youngest child. We couldn't find anything from before they came to America, but we did find the address in New York City where they lived, and what it looks like now.

Calofas, Percyton

Yukona wrote:It's initially quite easy

Calofas wrote:Incidentally this is my only tenuous link to someone famous.

According to my family history, most of my ancestors were Irish. Also, my mum's family and dad's family had married a few generations ago so I am mildly inbred. :P

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I don't feel very worldly right now. The most exotic place I've been abroad (indeed the only place I've been abroad) was Menorca.

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Nuremgard wrote:I don't feel very worldly right now. The most exotic place I've been abroad (indeed the only place I've been abroad) was Menorca.

I would still consider you lucky; I haven't traveled outside the U.S. at all, and in fact, I've never even left the eastern coast of the U.S. I'm going to be changing that soon, however; this summer I'm going on a trip to Europe with some classmates. We'll be visiting London, Paris, Florence, Rome, and southern Italy (primarily Pompeii, Capri, and Sorrento). We may also stop in Burgundy and Milan.

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Jaslandia wrote:

My Gifted teacher helped me do some research into my family history in 8th grade, or at least my dad's side. They came from Naples, Italy in the early 1900s (around 1907). My great-grandparents married around 1917, and had their first child (my great-aunt) in 1918; my grandfather was their youngest child. We couldn't find anything from before they came to America, but we did find the address in New York City where they lived, and what it looks like now.

Thats pretty cool!You'd probably have to go to Italy to find further information. Normally (at least in Scotland) local churches had birth certificates, thats how most of my family history was found.

Nuremgard wrote:According to my family history, most of my ancestors were Irish. Also, my mum's family and dad's family had married a few generations ago so I am mildly inbred. :P

I must be the only person in Scotland not to have had an Irish grandparent...or even great grandparent. Literally 200 years of people from the West of Scotland, thats all I have!

...also...you've probably hitched upon what that great uncle found and the reason for destroying any further family history :P

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Jaslandia wrote:I would still consider you lucky; I haven't traveled outside the U.S. at all, and inf fact, I've never even left the eastern coast of the U.S. I'm going to be changing that soon, however; this summer I'm going on a trip to Europe with some classmates. We'll be visiting London, Paris, Florence, Rome, and southern Italy (primarily Pompeii, Capri, and Sorrento). We may also stop in Burgundy and Milan.

That sounds really exciting. They all sound like lovely locations. In a way I'd love to travel but in a way I don't because I'm not a very adventurous person and get homesick really easily. Plus I'd feel ignorant not being able to speak the languages and such. I'm also very fussy with food too so would not be keen on trying the cuisine. :P

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Calofas wrote:Thats pretty cool!You'd probably have to go to Italy to find further information. Normally (at least in Scotland) local churches had birth certificates, thats how most of my family history was found.

I must be the only person in Scotland not to have had an Irish grandparent...or even great grandparent. Literally 200 years of people from the West of Scotland, thats all I have!

...also...you've probably hitched upon what that great uncle found and the reason for destroying any further family history :P

You're a pure-blood eh? ;)

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Calofas wrote:Thats pretty cool!You'd probably have to go to Italy to find further information. Normally (at least in Scotland) local churches had birth certificates, thats how most of my family history was found.

True. Me and my teacher did our research through ancestry.com (my Gifted teacher has an account there), and she said if I wanted to find any further information about my family before they came to America, I'd have to get ancestry.com's international package; their regular package only includes American documents and information.

Nuremgard wrote:That sounds really exciting. They all sound like lovely locations. In a way I'd love to travel but in a way I don't because I'm not a very adventurous person and get homesick really easily. Plus I'd feel ignorant not being able to speak the languages and such. I'm also very fussy with food too so would not be keen on trying the cuisine. :P

I have many of those same issues (not particularly adventurous, not being able to speak other languages, picky eater), but I just love history and learning about other cultures so much, that I'm willing to try it anyway. I've read so much about these places online and in books, so I would love to see it all in person.

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Jaslandia wrote:True. Me and my teacher did our research through ancestry.com (my Gifted teacher has an account there), and she said if I wanted to find any further information about my family before they came to America, I'd have to get ancestry.com's international package; their regular package only includes American documents and information.

I have many of those same issues (not particularly adventurous, not being able to speak other languages, picky eater), but I just love history and learning about other cultures so much, that I'm willing to try it anyway. I've read so much about these places online and in books, so I would love to see it all in person.

Europe is an awesome place so I hope you enjoy it.

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Nuremgard wrote:That sounds really exciting. They all sound like lovely locations. In a way I'd love to travel but in a way I don't because I'm not a very adventurous person and get homesick really easily. Plus I'd feel ignorant not being able to speak the languages and such. I'm also very fussy with food too so would not be keen on trying the cuisine. :P

Go to Greece! Best place in the world (not including Scotland).

Nuremgard wrote:You're a pure-blood eh? ;)

I call it very boring family history :(

Jaslandia wrote:I would still consider you lucky; I haven't traveled outside the U.S. at all, and in fact, I've never even left the eastern coast of the U.S. I'm going to be changing that soon, however; this summer I'm going on a trip to Europe with some classmates. We'll be visiting London, Paris, Florence, Rome, and southern Italy (primarily Pompeii, Capri, and Sorrento). We may also stop in Burgundy and Milan.

That sounds like an awesome trip! Would love to visit some of those places, but it would cost a fortune...if you're ever in Glasgow (just up the road from London) I'll buy you a drink :D

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Calofas wrote:Go to Greece! Best place in the world (not including Scotland).

I call it very boring family history :(

That sounds like an awesome trip! Would love to visit some of those places, but it would cost a fortune...if you're ever in Glasgow (just up the road from London) I'll buy you a drink :D

Just up the road lol. Oh aye. Just a wee five minute walk. :P

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Nuremgard wrote:Europe is an awesome place so I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks! There are a few other places I would like to visit that aren't part of the trip (Scotland, Vienna, St. Petersburg Russia, Amsterdam, other parts of England), so if I'm lucky, maybe I can go back to Europe someday for round 2.

Calofas wrote:That sounds like an awesome trip! Would love to visit some of those places, but it would cost a fortune...if you're ever in Glasgow (just up the road from London) I'll buy you a drink :D

Glasgow seems like it's a bit more than "up the road" from London, but I appreciate the offer.

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Nuremgard wrote:Just up the road lol. Oh aye. Just a wee five minute walk. :P

It's nothing! Just hop across the pond (Atlantic Ocean) and jump on a bus xD

The offer stands for anyone who comes to Glasgow...but I won't be covering travel costs :P

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Jaslandia wrote:Thanks! There are a few other places I would like to visit that aren't part of the trip (Scotland, Vienna, St. Petersburg Russia, Amsterdam, other parts of England), so if I'm lucky, maybe I can go back to Europe someday for round 2.

Glasgow seems like it's a bit more than "up the road" from London, but I appreciate the offer.

As I said! It's nothing :D

Hey! Just compare San Francisco to New York haha!

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Calofas wrote:It's nothing! Just hop across the pond (Atlantic Ocean) and jump on a bus xD

The offer stands for anyone who comes to Glasgow...but I won't be covering travel costs :P

We knew that already. Typical stingy Scot. :P

Jaslandia wrote:Thanks! There are a few other places I would like to visit that aren't part of the trip (Scotland, Vienna, St. Petersburg Russia, Amsterdam, other parts of England), so if I'm lucky, maybe I can go back to Europe someday for round 2.

Glasgow seems like it's a bit more than "up the road" from London, but I appreciate the offer.

Ooh, Vienna. I want to see Schönbrunn and the Hofburg.

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Nuremgard wrote:Ooh, Vienna. I want to see Schönbrunn and the Hofburg.

Yeah, those two are at the top of my list if I ever go to Vienna. I'd also want to see the other famous palaces in Vienna, like Belvedere, Albertina Palace, and Palais Schwarzenberg.

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Nuremgard wrote:We knew that already. Typical stingy Scot. :P

Ooh, Vienna. I want to see Schönbrunn and the Hofburg.

Hey hey! Thats unfair, I offered a drink didn't I? Oh wait! I forgot to mention it was a drink of water Haha!

Oh! Vienna is the place I want to visit the most. But the best so far is Prague. Jaslandia, ever get the chance go to Prague or Budapest! They would be my recommendations :)

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Jaslandia wrote:Yeah, those two are at the top of my list if I ever go to Vienna. I'd also want to see the other famous palaces in Vienna, like Belvedere, Albertina Palace, and Palais Schwarzenberg.

Calofas wrote:Hey hey! Thats unfair, I offered a drink didn't I? Oh wait! I forgot to mention it was a drink of water Haha!

Oh! Vienna is the place I want to visit the most. But the best so far is Prague. Jaslandia, ever get the chance go to Prague or Budapest! They would be my recommendations :)

If you pay enough cash at Schönbrunn you can sleep in the imperial suite, get your own butler and be pulled around in a carriage. :P

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Calofas wrote:Hey hey! Thats unfair, I offered a drink didn't I? Oh wait! I forgot to mention it was a drink of water Haha!

Oh! Vienna is the place I want to visit the most. But the best so far is Prague. Jaslandia, ever get the chance go to Prague or Budapest! They would be my recommendations :)

I've heard about Prague and thought about visiting there, but I haven't heard much about Budapest. I'll have to keep those places in mind.

Nuremgard wrote:If you pay enough cash at Schönbrunn you can sleep in the imperial suite, get your own butler and be pulled around in a carriage. :P

Sounds like a pretty sweet (suite) deal to me. *ba dum tss*

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I remember when my grandmother went on Ancestry, she traced our histories all the way to the Caesars (not Julius, but you get the point) and it included many, many kings and queens (just on my dad's maternal side). However, she loves to fabricate and exaggerate stories, so I take what she said with a grain of salt. Honestly, I'd have to do my own research to be convinced.

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Jaslandia wrote:I've heard about Prague and thought about visiting there, but I haven't heard much about Budapest. I'll have to keep those places in mind.

Sounds like a pretty sweet (suite) deal to me. *ba dum tss*

Prague is a beautiful city. Budapest has its sights as well, but was the unluckier of the two during WW2, both have great history as well. Also you can get a beer in both for about $1:D

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Baxten wrote:I remember when my grandmother went on Ancestry, she traced our histories all the way to the Caesars (not Julius, but you get the point) and it included many, many kings and queens (just on my dad's maternal side). However, she loves to fabricate and exaggerate stories, so I take what she said with a grain of salt. Honestly, I'd have to do my own research to be convinced.

You could be due a royal inheritance. :P

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Calofas wrote:Prague is a beautiful city. Budapest has its sights as well, but was the unluckier of the two during WW2, both have great history as well. Also you can get a beer in both for about $1:D

I've always wanted to go to Europe. One time, I had the chance, but school started the same week the trip was, so I still haven't gotten the chance. However, as Nurem and others may know, I will be in Scotland in two years for choir, so that's exciting

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Calofas wrote:Prague is a beautiful city. Budapest has its sights as well, but was the unluckier of the two during WW2, both have great history as well. Also you can get a beer in both for about $1:D

I'm not a drinker, but that's a good deal. Hopefully everything else there is cheap too.

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Nuremgard wrote:You could be due a royal inheritance. :P

Wouldn't that be something. But yea, I'm gonna do my own research before I make a final decision. When? Who knows, probably not for a while; definitely gonna get that DNA test they offer.

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Baxten wrote:I've always wanted to go to Europe. One time, I had the chance, but school started the same week the trip was, so I still haven't gotten the chance. However, as Nurem and others may know, I will be in Scotland in two years for choir, so that's exciting

Meant to say haven't been able to go

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Baxten wrote:I've always wanted to go to Europe. One time, I had the chance, but school started the same week the trip was, so I still haven't gotten the chance. However, as Nurem and others may know, I will be in Scotland in two years for choir, so that's exciting

Wow! You'll need to let me and Nuremgard know when you're here :D

Jaslandia wrote:I'm not a drinker, but that's a good deal. Hopefully everything else there is cheap too.

The food is also great in the Czech Republic and Hungry, and is also just as cheap!

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Calofas wrote:Wow! You'll need to let me and Nuremgard know when you're here :D

The food is also great in the Czech Republic and Hungry, and is also just as cheap!

It'll be roughly the week before Ash Wednesday in 2018. Don't know the place's we're going yet, but I'm quite excited

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Baxten wrote:It'll be roughly the week before Ash Wednesday in 2018. Don't know the place's we're going yet, but I'm quite excited

That sounds awesome! If it's anywhere in Scotland it should be good, although the weather won't be :P

Glasgow and Edinburgh are really different from each other and yet only 40 miles apart. So hopefully you have a good experience and see some interesting places :)

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Calofas wrote:That sounds awesome! If it's anywhere in Scotland it should be good, although the weather won't be :P

Glasgow and Edinburgh are really different from each other and yet only 40 miles apart. So hopefully you have a good experience and see some interesting places :)

I hope so too. Very excited to go.

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Calofas wrote:That sounds awesome! If it's anywhere in Scotland it should be good, although the weather won't be :P

Glasgow and Edinburgh are really different from each other and yet only 40 miles apart. So hopefully you have a good experience and see some interesting places :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhtpYIRHAU

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I only really know about my dad's side of the family, which is a mixture of Russian and German/Austrian.

My family can trace its roots back for a good bit, we have some nobility in both old time Bavaria and Austria, as well I have relation to Benjamin Rush. The Russian side is much less uneventful, with it going back to just normie Muscovites.

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Nuremgard wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhtpYIRHAU

So true, the Glesga banter is much better than those Edinburgers xD

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Calofas wrote:So true, the Glesga banter is much better than those Edinburgers xD

You'll like this one. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMRWvZAzgI

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Nuremgard wrote:You'll like this one. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFMRWvZAzgI

Hahaha!!! It is very true Firhill is bursting with banter! And as you know yourself 'Maryhill is Wonderful'

And that is seriously the stereotype of a Thistle fan from pish stained jakies to the pot smoking philosophy student

...Oh the banter, the banter....hmmm the banter.

Now almost everyone outside of Scotland (everyone apart from Nuremgard) thinks I'm really weird :P

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Calofas wrote:Hahaha!!! It is very true Firhill is bursting with banter! And as you know yourself 'Maryhill is Wonderful'

And that is seriously the stereotype of a Thistle fan from pish stained jakies to the pot smoking philosophy student

...Oh the banter, the banter....hmmm the banter.

Now almost everyone outside of Scotland (everyone apart from Nuremgard) thinks I'm really weird :P

Hairymill as we call it. :P

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Nuremgard wrote:Hairymill as we call it. :P

It can get a bit hairy on giro day tbh haha!

But I can't say anything bad about Maryhill, I mean I live next to Toryglen...sounds posh, but really isn't :P

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Calofas wrote:It can get a bit hairy on giro day tbh haha!

But I can't say anything bad about Maryhill, I mean I live next to Toryglen...sounds posh, but really isn't :P

Maryhill has good and bad areas like everywhere else. :P

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Nuremgard wrote:Maryhill has good and bad areas like everywhere else. :P

Yeah like the Woodside Inn, the Star & Garter or Munns Vault...oh wait I'm just naming good pubs.

I'm really not helping combat Scotlands image of a nation of alcoholics lol

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