From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Sat, 20 Apr 2019 18:24:41 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2019-04-20 09:09:55 +0000, MB said:   
   >   
   >> On 19/04/2019 23:18, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >>> Anyone who's _that_ bothered about who he's descended from that far   
   >>> back - or even _much_ more recently (say two or three centuries),   
   >>> whether nobility, serial killer, or whatever - has IMO a poor grasp of   
   >>> what's important. Sure, it's _nice_ to find you are descended from   
   >>> nobility, royalty, or someone famous; I'd be equally happy to find   
   >>> someone infamous! (I've found a few rich farmers and merchants, but   
   >>> mostly just Ag Lab or miner. Nobody _that_ famous.)   
   >>   
   >> But it has been happening for years with information from conventional   
   >> sources.  Best example recent was the EastEnders actor on WDYTYA who   
   >> found he was descended (allegedly) from William the Conqueror etc   
   >> though it was obviously played up for television.   
   >   
   >With possible exception of people who've immigrated from Africa or Asia   
   >in the last generation or so we're all descended from William the   
   >Conqueror.   
   >>   
   Maybe more unlikely the further your origins are from SE England or   
   anyone vaguely noble [sic]; the bike hadn't been invented in the 11th   
   century. OTOH I have a friend who is his 27th ggdaur and if I can fill   
   in 5 centuries between Walter Stewart, 1st Baron Kincardine and myself   
   then I'm her cousin.   
      
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