Posted on 06/27/2017 5:40:48 AM PDT by C19fan
An exchange from the Bob Newhart Show:
Jerry: “I could be a duke, or an earl.”
Bob: “You could be the Duke of Earl.”
BFD! I’m related to a Von and a Di, great! Now lets find our castles and dig under them, to see of the loot from the crusades is still hidden there.
Most Royals in Europe were inbreeds. Just sayin.
No, we’re not, but we’re all related.
No doubt my sisters in law have royal blood. They're all drama queens.
We’re also all related to horse thieves - and probably a lot more closely than to royals.
My ex taught at a french school in San Francisco, many of the french families had a lineage chart and a very large percentage included Charlamagne
I am Catholic and doing historical research on the English Catholic martyrs. My daughter is working on our family tree and found that we are directly descended from William Tyndale and Roland Taylor, two Protestant martyrs.
Not getting into faith matters here, but with the eons that have passed, there is a very good chance we are all (distantly) related to Jesus, Moses and other biblical characters, especially of you are of Caucasian, Ashkenazim and/or Sephardic heritage.
By “Caucasian”, do you mean the people of the Caucasus Mountains specifically, or white people generally? Obviously, the two main branches of the world’s Jewish population would be genetically related to the ancient Israelites.
By “Caucasian”, do you mean the people of the Caucasus Mountains specifically, or white people generally? Obviously, the two main branches of the world’s Jewish population would be genetically related to the ancient Israelites.
Everybody posting in this thread who is of european descent will probably find a common ancestor no more than 1000 years back.
Royalty is medieval real estate management where you had to work with your “neighbors” to protect your respective properties which had disputable border lines.
We are Family!
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