From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 20/04/2019 17:24, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   True but few of us have an identifiable link into the Royal line.   
      
   The funniest I heard was at a talk by the author A Dance Called America.   
     He went to the US to meet the present day Nez Perce tribe and had a   
   meal with them in their community hall.  There were children playing in   
   the corner and it occurred to him that every single one of those Indian   
   children had a direct line back to Somerled whilst many wealthy   
   Americans visit Scotland hoping to find a connection to Royalty or at   
   least aristocracy but can only find they were descended from a poor crofter.   
      
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