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   Message 128,107 of 130,039   
   Chris Dickinson to Doug Laidlaw   
   Re: Royal family: descent from Adam and    
   23 Apr 18 05:42:48   
   
   From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Monday, 23 April 2018 13:15:00 UTC+1, Doug Laidlaw  wrote:   
   > On 23/04/18 00:13,  wrote:   
   > > The source for this genealogy (true or not) comes from the Asser's Life of   
   King Alfred, written in 893.  Did Alfred the Great give him the information,   
   did he believe it, know it for a fact, who knows, but some of the replies here   
   scoffing at it are    
   childish.  It is a source like all others, it is not always factual but all we   
   have to go on until proven or disproven.   
   >    
   > What you say is fair comment, but did Alfred know his lineage back to    
   > Adam as a fact?  As if in Adam's time, they started a "family Bible."   
   >    
      
   Alfred would have considered the book of Genesis as his family bible.   
      
   Chris   
      
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