All but one US President descended from a British King.

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All but one US President descended from a British King.

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:21 pm




Limeys!!!! :lay:

John Lackland Plantagent - signer of the Magna Carta. All US Presidents except Martin Van Buren are descended from him, according to this research....
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Re: All but one US President descended from a British King.

Post by Ian » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:39 pm

Pfft. Big deal. Even I'm descended from British royalty. :hmph:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:30 pm

Ian wrote:Pfft. Big deal. Even I'm descended from British royalty. :hmph:
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:32 pm

Ian wrote:Pfft. Big deal. Even I'm descended from British royalty. :hmph:
But, royalty is one thing...the same royal...I wonder how common that is? Is most of the general population also related to that same royal? I suppose it's possible - I had read some items that indicated that after enough time, we're all related to most everyone that was around 500 years ago to some degree...
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Re: All but one US President descended from a British King.

Post by klr » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:51 pm

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Ian wrote:Pfft. Big deal. Even I'm descended from British royalty. :hmph:
But, royalty is one thing...the same royal...I wonder how common that is? Is most of the general population also related to that same royal? I suppose it's possible - I had read some items that indicated that after enough time, we're all related to most everyone that was around 500 years ago to some degree...
Especially since they kept many of the women for themselves. Genghis Khan (and/or some of his sons) has a very successful Y-chromosome ...
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Post by Berthold » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:12 am

16th cousin, that's not very close. :mrgreen:

Isn't it somewhere around the degree to which most everyone is related to everyone else?
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:32 pm

Berthold wrote:16th cousin, that's not very close. :mrgreen:

Isn't it somewhere around the degree to which most everyone is related to everyone else?
That's the hunch I had too. I'm not sure, though.
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