British Polytubby needed!

[giblets]

Are you really interested in knowing? Probably the most famous is Canada's Last Daughters, where I collaborated with Andrea Mrozek.

Well I looked for that on Google, and found this:

Canada's Lost Daughters
We've heard of couples overseas aborting female fetuses for want of a boy. Western Standard magazine's investigative report found it's happening in Canada too.
by Andrea Mrozek with files from Sean Ollech

How a contribution to a magazine article about a contemporary issue makes someone a historian is anyone's guess, I guess.

[Dauphin]

I am amused that BK is looking for an obscure reference in a limited text to support a parochial position. Whatever happened to bald assertion man?

[Ben Kenobi]

I am amused that BK is looking for an obscure reference in a limited text to support a parochial position. Whatever happened to bald assertion man?

Poly is where I turn my brain off.

My professional life is very boring. This is something that maybe 5 people in the universe have cared about, ever. Maybe another 5 will care about it in the future. But, I'm in the realm of actually having to do real research.

[Ben Kenobi]

How a contribution to a magazine article about a contemporary issue makes someone a historian is anyone's guess, I guess.

I didn't say it was my only publication. It's the only one that people have, in any reasonable assumption, came across.

[giblets]

Well it's not history, so it doesn't demonstrate that you're a historian.

[DaShi]

Oh, I'll make it worth both your while.

So gay.

[giblets]

Poly is where I turn my brain off.

That would explain why your posts display no signs of brain activity.

[Ben Kenobi]

Well it's not history, so it doesn't demonstrate that you're a historian.

If you read the article, it demonstrates that the ratios of boys to girls in certain parts of Vancouver and Toronto have deviated from the natural norm over the course of about 30 years. That requires research into the ratios back in the 60's and 70's and comparing them with today.

So yes, it is history, and the reason why my actual reasearch (not the article), got passed onto a demographer in the UK, who for some reason was interested in my work.

It's also why the BBC hired me to do a similar project solo for them in the UK, despite my warning that they were wasting their money.

[giblets]

Oh, lol. Looking up a statistic from the 60's makes you a historian?

[Ben Kenobi]

Oh, lol. Looking up a statistic from the 60's makes you a historian?

Charting changes from the 60s, yes, I don't see why it wouldn't.

[MOBIUS]

I actually have a friend who used to work there and still knows loads of people.

But then if you were on fire, I wouldn't even piss on you to put you out.

[Ben Kenobi]

But then if you were on fire, I wouldn't even piss on you to put you out.

Considering where it's been? If I were on fire, I'd rather you saved it for the the sheep.

[Uncle Sparky]

You'd think a professional historian such as yourself would be calling on academic colleagues to assist rather than polytubbies. Are they all on vacation?

[Ben Kenobi]

You'd think a professional historian such as yourself would be calling on academic colleagues to assist rather than polytubbies. Are they all on vacation?

What makes you think I haven't already done so?

[Dauphin]

E-mail forward as below. It either helps (in that it says your source is a steaming pile of turd) or it doesn't (in that your source is a steaming pile of turd but you don't know what your next option is?). GF says you need to get a better source than peerage.com, which is where she suspects you got the original reference from? She recommends you visit a proper library? She also wonders if you really are a historian?

On the page cited, the entry for Robert de Courtenay (below). The book is pretty much just a LONG list of entries like this one. It sounds like it's not the person he's referring to in the email you sent me, since Champignelles is in Burgundy, and THAT Robert de Courtenay died in 1239, not 1242, and he married Maud de Yahun-sur-Yevre, blah blah blah.

Basically, this guy has a bogus reference to a DIFFERENT Robert de Courtenay. I don't know where he got the idea that Burke's Peerage listed his Robert as son of Pierre whoever, since the volume and page number supplied directed me to this one, in the section devoted to Devon, NOT Burgundy. So, he's got a bogus reference from somewhere. I wouldn't question the reliability of Burke's, but rather the reliability of whatever cited Burke's.

ROBERT de COURTENAY; feudal lord of Okehampton and Sutton Courtenay; Sherrif of Devon and Oxon, Castellan Exeter and Oxford, inherited 31 July 1219 from his mother the great Honour of Okehampton in Devon, amounting to 92 knights’ fees; KING JOHN granted him the right to coin tin in Devon and Cornwall in 1215; m Mary, yst dau of William de Reviers or de Vernon, 5th Earl of Devon of the 1141 cr and Lord of the Isle of Wight (d preliminary remarks above), and widow of Pierre de Preaux; d 26 July, 1242, leaving:

JOHN de COURTENAY…

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