Posted on 11/01/2015 11:04:00 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
My bologna has a first name and if I had a pipe I would name it bubbles.
Each generation further back you have twice as many ancestors (with possible duplications--if two people married who were third cousins they would have some ancestors in common). The royal ancestor might well be the illegitimate son or daughter of a king...but the English monarchy traces its lineage back to William the Conqueror, also known as William the Bastard.
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