From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   On 23/04/18 00:13, jen53genealogy@gmail.com 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."   
      
   When it was being said that the noble living in the New South Wales   
   desert was the rightful King of England, somebody pointed out that in   
   any case, there is no continuous line of descent. [Jerilderie was the   
   hottest point on our weather map.  I would have grabbed at the   
   opportunity to move somewhere cooler.]   
      
   There was a story that the Australian Morgans in a friend's family tree   
   were descended from the American financial company and there was a   
   document lodged with a genealogical society to prove it.  The link was   
   in the female line, through a non-existent daughter.  The document was a   
   recent re-write of the family legend, self-serving evidence and   
   worthless.  The legend was chronologically impossible, but the believers   
   intend to publish a book.  The American family claim descent from a   
   Welsh chieftain.   
      
   My wife's cousin, a Bernie, believed that their Bernies are descended   
   from Wallace's affair with the princess depicted on Braveheart.  But   
   Blind Harry's epic, the earliest "source," written 100 years after the   
   event, says that the partner was the Queen of England, Edward's wife. To   
   cap it all off, their Bernies are not Scottish, but Irish from Dublin.   
   A movie needs a love interest.  There was an equally impossible legend   
   that the ancestor was a sea-captain.  In his marriage registration, he   
   is a merchant.   
      
   Doug.   
      
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