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Originally Posted by Gem
I traced my family back to around the 1650-1700s on most lines... until discovering one line that a cousin had traced back to AD 350!!!!! Easy to trace royalty it seems and we are descended from King Harold of 1066 fame.  |
Well, I stumbled upon some work that a very distant relative in the States had done and it seems I'm a descendant of William I aka William the Conquerer!! Grant, I guess it's a bit late to apologise for that little misunderstanding between our relations at Hastings back in 1066? It also seems that because of the route to William I'm also related to Kenneth MacAlpin, the first King of the Scots (Picts) and Margaret of Wessex, aka Saint Margaret of Scotland... Hmmn, I wonder whats on my Italian side... a Pope perhaps?
All very interesting but it hasn't cleared the cloud...
Cheers,
Mario