I love the French but

[banjobob]

It's on the French news, possibly being pushed by the anti vaxers.

https://www.lalibre.be/international/eu ... 23AW445AU/

[Hotrodder]

Well if it divides people vaccinated and non vaccinated then fine. It keeps them away from me.

Plus One!

They say 60% of new hospital admissions in the UK for covid were double jabbed.

There were never any guarantees that the vaccine would make anyone totally safe from infection, only that it would make it less deadly if you caught it. The problem is with the people who have "thinking difficulties" that get both jabs and then think they are invulnerable. They go out and forget all the sensible precautions that would prevent unnecessary exposure.

[DominicBest]

That announcement was incorrect, he messed up. The 60% is for unvaccinated people not double vaccinated, a huge difference.

[RobertArthur]

About underground cultural rivers, surfacing so every now and then. Rome at war with the many tribes in France, 58 - 52 BC. In his "De Bello Gallico" we read about German tribes crossing the river Rhine, without invitation. What to do, who are your allies? Julius Caesar doesn't think he can count on Gaulish tribes. In an English translation his considerations:

" Caesar was informed of these events; and fearing the fickleness of the Gauls, because they are capricious in forming designs and intent for the most part on change, he considered that no trust should be reposed in them."

In French, Dutch and German translations the text is sometimes a bit more revolution oriented:

"---- how they are almost always inclined to rebel...."

Perhaps more advanced DNA research can shed some further light on this matter....

[Blaze]

Many French would be amazed at their ancestry given the to-ing and fro-ing that's taken place in Europe, and further, over the centuries. How many French have you come across who say "My grandmother was Czech" or "mon arrière grandpère était allemand" ?
A French friend recently received the results of his DNA test and was astonished to find he is 60% English. He does not know of any English relations, but perhaps he needs to go back to the Hundred Years War ... or further.
With the movement of populations, Europe has always been a melting pot so who knows what was in the genes of the Gallic hordes !

[Wilbro]

Many French would be amazed at their ancestry given the to-ing and fro-ing that's taken place in Europe, and further, over the centuries. How many French have you come across who say "My grandmother was Czech" or "mon arrière grandpère était allemand" ?
A French friend recently received the results of his DNA test and was astonished to find he is 60% English. He does not know of any English relations, but perhaps he needs to go back to the Hundred Years War ... or further.
With the movement of populations, Europe has always been a melting pot so who knows what was in the genes of the Gallic hordes !

Hmmm! I know from my own DNA test that you would need to have a parent or two grandparents to get that mix. I had an English Great Grandfather but my DNA shows 80% Scottish and 20% Irish. Not an English gene in sight
Did his mother have an English neighbour?

[Blaze]

Did his mother have an English neighbour?

I'll have to ask him !
One of my lines is Macleod on my father's side and they did extensive research and found we came from Norway a long way back.
I will get around to doing a DNA test one day.

[Wilbro]

Actually there is another possibility. Was he adopted and never told?

[Blaze]

Actually there is another possibility. Was he adopted and never told?

That an interesting thought - having a DNA test can open a Pandora's box. In a country where many are "né sous X" it is only fairly recently that people are allowed to try to find their birth mother.
Wilbro - when you get the results, don't you get some idea of where your "relatives" are living ?
Funnily enough, this fella with the 60% English genes is a rabid anti-vaxer !

[Wilbro]

Actually there is another possibility. Was he adopted and never told?

That an interesting thought - having a DNA test can open a Pandora's box. In a country where many are "né sous X" it is only fairly recently that people are allowed to try to find their birth mother.
Wilbro - when you get the results, don't you get some idea of where your "relatives" are living ?
Funnily enough, this fella with the 60% English genes is a rabid anti-vaxer !

Not where they live unless they say where on their personal info. however it gives you a breakdown of their DNA. The analysis I had has given me several new cousins in US, Australia, New Zealand and UK. It's fascinating once you get into it and has expanded my family connections no end as well as clarifying a lot of loose ends. I've been researching my tree for over 20 years and go back solidly to the 17C and some tentative links earlier than that.