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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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In 1980 my family had to sell their farm in Crosshouse, Ayrshire due to a new road being built. The family had been there for years with various generations being born in that area back to my great grand father and beyond we believed.
We moved to a farm in Darvel some 10 - 15 miles away, an area where we did not know anyone.
In the 1990's I started a school project on local history and looked at Census records for 1851and discovered a family with the same surname as ours living at the same farm in Darvel. With a little bit of investigation I discovered that it was in fact my g g g grandfather and his family so we had returned by chance to the exact same farm and also to the area where my family originates from.
Before that we had joked about the names on the gravestones in the cemetry bearing the surname as being our relatives and in fact they all were!
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:33:02 +0000Coincidence ID:3936
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