Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on November 22, 2024, 04:48:02 PMHow very interesting! I indeed have ancestors in the Norwood family that were in South Carolina! My 8th great-grandfather Theophilus Norwood was born in North Carolina in 1698 and died in South Carolina in 1782. Within a couple generations, they had migrated to Oklahoma. I spent quite a long time working on my own genealogy and have quite a few interesting tidbits throughout, including a rather scandalous encounter of my wife's relatives with George Washington!

Yeah, the Norwoods sure seem to like the name Theophilus! My grandfather has DNA matches on his paternal side who are descended from a grandson of Theophilus Norwood 1698 (John Norwood 1744-1798) who married a Pickens, and matches on his maternal side who are descended from a 5th great grandson of Theophilus (Oliver Franklin Norwood 1888-1965 of Arkansas) who married a Reynolds.

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on November 21, 2024, 04:48:17 PMI don't have sufficient proof to use any specific Clan's tartan, though my genealogical research does present some rather interesting links to the House of Stuart.

Genealogy has been my biggest hobby over the past few years. I'm related by marriage to two branches of a Norwood family that was in colonial South Carolina, through my late grandfather. Incidentally, he was also a DNA match of the sister of King John (though I haven't been able to figure out how we're related).

Unless I'm mistaken, the position of Leader of the Opposition doesn't exist at all in the OrgLaw at present. I think it's risky to give important OrgLaw responsibilities to positions that depend completely on lower-level law for their existence.

Congratulations, Sir Txec!

¡Felicia nadaliça!

¡Graschcias!

As a member of the CÚG before Llimbaziua 2019, I hereby request membership in SIGN.

Has the referendum been announced on our social media accounts (Facebook, X, whatever)? I don't use social media much but it might attract the notice of some citizens.

¡Per!

Quote from: Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB on October 11, 2024, 09:37:45 AMYou can vote for the tie-breaker here: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=3569.0

2B is one of the options.

Thanks! Don't know how I missed that.

I got the reminder fine, but the original notice went into my spam folder so I never saw it. I wonder how much that has affected turnout.

Missed the poll, but I like 2B best. It would be neat if this started a trend where other provinces created tartans using the same green and red base but different colored "provincial stripes" (the narrow ones). Like navy and gold for Florencia, black and white for Cézembre, etc.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on July 03, 2024, 03:42:20 PMLast time I spoke to him he told me he'd probably have to change his name

"Carlüs Xheraltescu" has a nice ring to it.

Quote from: Flip Molinar on July 02, 2024, 05:14:02 PMI know that I have been harping on this a lot since I have returned in the last few weeks, but why do we not just switch to a system of registered voters and non-registered voters or active voters and the inactive voters?

I'm torn about this. I agree with a lot of what you say. On the other hand we have a mechanism to remove inactive citizens from the official rolls in order to prevent the active citizens becoming a smaller and smaller proportion of the population we claim. We have had instances in the past where prospective citizens came away feeling like the country was a sham because we had 200+ people on the citizen list but only a handful of people posting on Witt. Also, we might never receive notice of a citizen's passing (not everyone has a published obituary), so our credibility might also be damaged in future years by having a citizen list full of centenarians who haven't been heard from in decades. 

Quote from: Flip Molinar on July 02, 2024, 05:14:02 PMa blacklist for people that we know shouldn't be allowed to participate in the Civic or political life of the Kingdom. I think of King Robert the first and Iusti Canün as examples.

It should be noted that neither of these examples has been (as far as I recall) been convicted of anything by a Talossan court.

Always sad to see, but a shorter list than last time at least.