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Descended from Royalty
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Eldrick | Report | 14 May 2017 22:56 |
Depending on how you do the maths, you can say that between 80% and 99% of people with British lineage are descended from Edward III. |
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Rambling | Report | 14 May 2017 23:22 |
All descended from 'Adam', whoever or whatever you perceive 'Adam' to be ;-) |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 14 May 2017 23:45 |
I think we are all related to Royalty |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 14 May 2017 23:54 |
Rose, my nephew got his DNA analysed. |
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Caroline | Report | 14 May 2017 23:55 |
Oh I've got Scots blood in me so good chance some French royalty as they've got cozy over the years haven't they :-D :-D |
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Caroline | Report | 14 May 2017 23:58 |
Italians = Romans we've discussed this before. :-D |
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Eldrick | Report | 15 May 2017 00:05 |
Yeah, I had my DNA done and it was interesting - I suppose the point is, as Nyx so righty says, we are all from one common ancestor and taking it to the extreme there was once upon a time a newly formed single cell..... |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 15 May 2017 00:14 |
Genealogy also doesn't acknowledge the 'rights' of the Lord of the Manor in times gone by :-( :-( |
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Caroline | Report | 15 May 2017 00:41 |
A past time still followed by many it seems :-D |
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Cynthia | Report | 15 May 2017 07:11 |
I had my DNA done too - as a Christmas present. It seems I have quite a lot of Scandinavian blood in my veins. I blame the Vikings! |
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Guinevere | Report | 15 May 2017 07:44 |
Me too, Cynthia. My east coast ancestors supplied the Viking blood! They have Scandinavian surnames so we sort of knew already. |
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Dermot | Report | 15 May 2017 07:52 |
'Whether King or commoner, you should be responsible for the child you have fathered'. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 May 2017 10:28 |
Practically everybody in the UK with a British grandfather will have a link to blue blood legitimate or otherwise. It is estimated that there are over 4 million descendents of Edward III. There are some public trees with over 100000 documented descendents of this king. |
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Eldrick | Report | 15 May 2017 10:55 |
How did I know that you would have a direct link, meticulously researched, documented, verified and confirmed, to an illegitimate 14th C daughter of a son of Edward III, thereby being able to trace descent back to Henry II and your name derivative, Rollo the Viking (the son of Ketil flatnose, as I'm sure you know) where the line comes to a halt. |
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Rambling | Report | 15 May 2017 12:22 |
I do have one line, father's father etc back to Suffolk 1525, well researched ( not by me but a lifetime's work) I must check through it sometime. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 May 2017 12:30 |
My breath is quite unbated but you are right about the moniker. |
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Caroline | Report | 15 May 2017 18:07 |
The trouble with some of these research people you have to wonder if all of them are 100% accurate. I've found people with connections to my tree over the years who swear blind they have the tree going back to the year dot, and it must be right I paid for it type attitude. I've found mistakes in their tree without too much research. No I don't think I'm a master sleuth but sometimes they make a good educated guess and it can be wrong....and this is in the census so how good was their research before the census etc were available to check. |
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Eldrick | Report | 15 May 2017 18:27 |
Illegitimacy was rife, any records that were kept even up to the present time have to be taken with a large dose of scepticism. I personally only ever say that so an so is recorded as being a relative. I think it's probably fair to say that the further back you go, the less reliable things are, to the degree that it's probably just a best guess. Bastardy records are useful on occasions where they exist, but unless someone can be dug up and some DNA found, all you can do is say its possible. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 May 2017 18:43 |
Although I did not do the original work I did check it all out myself. Took three years. |
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Eldrick | Report | 15 May 2017 19:09 |
How interesting. We must be related. |
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