Thrainn Vigfusson posted: > I thought you might be joking, but it's not often I get the chance to tell > people I saw Bjork shopping, since everybody here has also seen her. > > We get a lot of "...then you must know..." questions here, mainly because the > whole nation is interested in genealogy. When you tell people who you are or > where you live, you can expect answers like "My wife's cousin's husband's > great aunt used to live there in the fifties. Maybe you've heard about her." > > BTW, I wasn't joking about the interest in genealogy. The family trees of the > entire nation (since about 1650) are available on the web. In a few seconds, > you can find out how you are related to anybody. >
In that case, I'll play ... Long, long ago (the late 1970s) in a galaxy far away (the island of Jamaica) I went to school with an Icelandic fellow named Thordur Hermannsson (whose name I am no doubt misspelling) and his two sisters. Do you know them? E.R.N. Reed
