Re:Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
by DavidAdams on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:25PM
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It's funny that this showed up at HN, but I'm personally interested because one of my ancestors, Aoife MacMurrough, was buried at Tintern Abbey. Her daughter and son-in-law, Isabel de Clare and William Marshal, were big time patrons of the abbey. If you're ever in Eastern Wales, the ruins are a pretty spot to visit.
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Re:Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
by XiJInPaddington on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:21AM
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It's extremely rad that you can trace your ancestry back 1000 years. I guess I don't have much else to add besides that, but I'm someone whose knowledge of their ancestry stops 2 generations up so I'm kind of in awe by that fact. 1000 years!
Re:Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
by DavidAdams on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:08PM
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The trick is that we all have thousands of ancestors, and if you luck upon one thread that connects you to the aristocracy, their genealogical records are more complete than common people. That's why, after a few generations, people only know the really fancy people they're descended from.