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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: November 2005 Posts: 2 399 Send Message	ElizabethK	Report	29 Oct 2018 10:59
	and this one https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6259837/Cambridge-University-Students-Union-row-Remembrance-Day-motion.html What is doing on with these young women-power and equality gone t their heads? :-(
Member Since: November 2005 Posts: 2 399 Send Message	ElizabethK	Report	29 Oct 2018 10:53
	https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/education/southampton-university-student-president-vows-to-take-down-white-men-mural-honouring-ww1-soldiers-1-8682343
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9 114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	29 Oct 2018 10:10
	Good to see many towns and villages across the UK are making very impressive displays.
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 13 283 Send Message	Annx	Report	27 Oct 2018 01:17
	We have wrought iron gates covered in knitted and crocheted poppies in the town and since last year the local villages have had large poppies fixed high up on the lamp posts. <3 <3
	Researching: Staffordshire, Warwickshire
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 15 153 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	26 Oct 2018 13:15
	Wow! I got a lump in my throat just looking at the pictures online.
	Researching:
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9 114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	26 Oct 2018 12:26
	Here in Canada we have the Highway of Heroes, when all returning fallen soldiers return they travel along that route to Toronto. Every journey people line the bridges etc to "welcome them home".
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 26 411 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	26 Oct 2018 11:34
	What a striking display.! Folkestone was the setting off port for so many men in the First World War. The steep road which they trod down to the harbour was later renamed Road of Remembrance and thousands of poppies are fixed to the railings there. The opposite side of the road has been planted with rosemary, to continue the theme of remembrance. The town war memorial and more recent Memorial Arch are at the top of this road.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20 659 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	26 Oct 2018 07:30
	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6314129/We-shall-knit-forget-Display-15-000-crocheted-poppies-placed-towns-war-memorial.html Wow! Around Hythe (Hampshire) there have ceramic poppies on roundabouts. for the past month or so.
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9 114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	26 Oct 2018 01:26
	Near my Mum they do the same knitting/ crocheting and display them near the seafront.
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32 477 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	25 Oct 2018 23:19
	We have them in Norwich, I hope to go to see them. A lovely idea! Lizx
Member Since: February 2008 Posts: 7 326 Send Message	DameShelly("\(o)/")	Report	25 Oct 2018 21:10
	the link works for me so nice to see there lovley <3 <3
	Researching: Re-searching Barber and Marrow Wickhambrook Suffolk
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 23 596 Send Message	JoyBoroAngel	Report	25 Oct 2018 21:03
	I love the Crocheted poppies :-D
	Researching: The birth of Middlesbrough
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9 114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	25 Oct 2018 14:52
	sorry my links don't always work!! I think the idea is catching on all around the country.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 5 994 Send Message	SuffolkVera	Report	25 Oct 2018 14:33
	The link wouldn’t work for me but we have a similar thing in our town, hung from the tower of a large church in the centre of town and draped down to the ground. It also contains a few purple poppies for the animals who died. It looks very impressive and moving. EDIT. Just found the article by googling. They also look pretty impressive.
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 9 114 Send Message	Caroline	Report	25 Oct 2018 13:33
	www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6314129/We-shall-knit-forget-Display-15-000-crocheted-poppies-placed-towns-war-memorial.html