@kendonnelly Compassion towards the unworthy is the epitome of the virtue.

@NiveusLepus I am just kidding. My ancestors were among the French deported by the British in 1755 from what would eventually become Canada. Some died in the ships. I don’t actually support mass deportation. .

@kendonnelly I figured. ^_^ On my Dad's side of the family they were exiled Huguenots. In 1731 two brothers who were the descendants of those exiles that had settled in England made their way to Philadelphia.

@NiveusLepus I have Huguenots in my ancestry as well.

@kendonnelly Maybe we're long lost cousins! Howdy Cousin!

@NiveusLepus Howdy! Did your cousins change their name to avoid discrimination? Mine did. Not sure if that was the norm at the time.

@kendonnelly I know the name changed when the family section I'm descended from arrived in Northumbria... It anglicized to Mickley from Michelet

@NiveusLepus I would have to go back and look in my records, but I am sure that is not their name.

@kendonnelly I bet we got at least one shared ancestor in the last 5 or 10k years... So, Howdy distant cousin! ^_^

@NiveusLepus I was thinking the same thing