From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr
On 2019-04-20 17:47:12 +0000, Charles Ellson said:
> 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.
Nobles, and kings in particular, didn't need bicycles to get around and
spread their Y chromosomes about. If we believe the somewhat fanciful
genealogies compiled by our ancestors, William the Conqueror is my
great^30 grandfather (through two different routes). Big deal. The same
is true of virtually everyone.
> 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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athel
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