Happy birthday, Mike!

Happy birthday mikekellner, Lord of the List! Have some extra bourbon for me.

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Census

Spurred on by yesterday's look at surname distribution, and because I was looking at the National Statistics site for work, I had a poke around the 1901 Census for family members. My mother had sent me some good handwritten notes about my grandparents on both sides, so I started some confident searches on my dad's family.

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Moral: trust oral history, it's loads better.