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My stepmom traced my dad's family back to something like the year 405. It was a direct line back to King Alfred the Great (born 849), whose descendents include the current Royal Family. I want to see the family tree. I bet Queen Elizabeth turns out to be my 53rd cousin, seven times removed.

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That is so cool!

Your family reunion next year is going to be HUGE! :)

Do you think they'll come?

You could give it a shot and invite them :)

Dear cousin Elizabeth...

Oy. think of the paparazzi!

I wonder if she'd play cornhole with us. Now there's a photo op.

That is a lot of searching and work. I thought I was doing good only going back to the 1700's with my Mom's family!

She had previously gone back to the earliest couple on this continent. Now she made the jump across the Atlantic. Once she did that, I think everything fell into place. With all that royalty, the work has already been done.

Wow!

Isn't is amzing you can go back 1500 years, considering all the records that didn't survive the Dark Ages? My wife did the geneology on my Dad's Dad's family, and we trace back to the Spencers, circa 1300s. So, I can say that I'm Lady Diana Spencer's distant cousin.

Correction: Isn't is amzing you can go back over 1600 years

That's pretty cool.

One side of my stepmom's family was traced back to 945 or something like that. It is pretty amzing, considering that even in this country, you sometimes can't find records from the 1800's. Also, in Europe, you run into the problem where you can't trace by family name because they didn't take their father's surname.

I'd be much more excited about having this cousin than that ugly ol' queen...

We do have some Scots in the tree. Robert the Bruce, I think was mentioned. Connery is alive, though, so that's a plus.

That's amazing!! I'm going to have to look up what was happening in the world in 405AD.

Why hello, Sir Kevin of Grafton!
:D

Curtseying will not be required.

So, that probably makes you 85,345th in line for the throne!

I'll keep my fingers crossed for a plague.

I think you need to add two zeroes to that figure. Okay, so if a plague wipes out half of Great Britain, that brings me down to 2,134,800th in line. If it wipes out all of Great Britain, it gets me to 859,200th in line, but I'd have no subjects. Regardless, if I ever make it there, I promise to get you a job in the palace.

In semi-related news, my stepmom also discovered she's related to the Marx Brothers.

You can prove anything with statistics.

If my number of ancestors doubles with every generation (two parents, four grandparents, etc.) and we assume 25 years per generation, then my number of ancestors becomes larger than the British population some time in the 15th century. So I'm probably descended from just about everyone who was alive before then.

So I'm descended from royalty too, and you and I are distant cousins!

Here's a nice animated thing about UK population: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/population/index_embed.shtml

I thought I might see you here. :-)

Yeah, I would assume that everyone in Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, three quarters the population of the US, and ninety percent of Canada has the same relation. It's fun for us Americans to joke about, because it's so hard to trace lineage back that far.

Question: How likely is it for a French person to have similar ancestors, that far back?

France has about the same population as Britain. My guess is that you could do the similar piece of dodgy statistics and get a similar answer.

Your genealogist did pretty well to get back so far. I've seen one branch of my family traced back to the 1600s but only because they lived in the same village up until the 20th century.

I was wondering about the French ancestors mingling with those same English royals.

I'd like to see my stepmom's work. They work on the royal families has all been done, but I wonder how many generations she went through to get that far.

Edited Date: 2011-08-15 10:54 pm (UTC)

> ...French ancestors meeting up with the English royals
Seems likely. If you're related to any royalty, you're related to all of them.

LOL! *curtseys to Sir Kevin*

My sister did a similar search years ago, announcing our supposed royal blood, so I asked her how many horse thieves she also uncovered... and was met with silence. But I'm also sure my sister's search was not as thorough or as well documented as your stepmom's. My sister tends to the "silly."

The family line in question comes through Scotland, and settled in the Appalachians. I'm absolutely certain that they were all upstanding, peaceful people. ;-)