Genealogists discover royal roots for all

Associated Press ^ | July 01, 2006 | Matt Crenson

[TruthConquers]

You are quite right about Iceland. My mother's, by way of Canada, family tree is of solid Icelandic descent. My dad is from Nova Scotia. I am very sure I have NO MOHAMMED in my family tree. I fact in Iceland if you can trace your family tree back to one guy in the 1500's (who had three wives and three mistress' over his life time) you can then trace back all the way to Odin.

I wonder if I have Berserker's in my family tree?

[Mike Darancette]

I'm wondering which English King you were referring to that your ancestor supposedly killed

Charles I. Maj Gen Harrison signed the death warrant of Charles I and was later executed for it.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

My cousin traced our family line back to Wales and connected us to the Welsh Royal family (middle ages). The rest is history, from that royal line it goes back to the third century AD and a Roman. On another line (my Irish ancestors), we are connected to the Spanish royal family.

[Cicero]

One of my grandmothers was a descendant of Pico della Mirandola, who in turn traced his genealogy back to Julius Caesar.

Another line goes back to Elder William Brewster.

That's OK, but if I'm descended from that rat Muhammed I'd prefer not to know about it.

[Redcloak]

Given the way the Vikings got around, the relationship might just run the other way around!

[Armigerous]

....well he got screwed then....the entier so-called 'Rump Parliament' signed off on that..including Oliver Cromwell...they knew they had to to give the execution any legitimacy at all

[timsbella]

Mohamed? Poppycock. More lame new-age "we're all connected crapola". G-d split us up nicely at Babel for a reason.

[Mike Darancette]

well he got screwed then

Big time! They dug up Cromwell too and gave his bones a trial.

On the positive side it prompted many of my people to head for the Colonies. The General was a bit of a wacko anyway but a great General.

[Mike Darancette]

I have an ancestor who was the only casuality in the Whiskey Rebellion.

From Wikipedia:

The rebels afterwards hid in the woods, but twenty were captured and paraded down Market Street in Philadelphia. The men were imprisoned, where one died, while two were convicted of treason and sentenced to death by hanging. Washington, however, pardoned them on the grounds that one was a "simpleton," and the other, "insane."

Better to be related to the dead guy than a simpleton or an insane guy.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them.
Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

[Defiant]

I wonder if this article is a very weak attempt to encourage Europeans to think of themselves as "Muslims" instead of Europeans.

Of course, this would make them all apostates, and subject to being killed by Muslims. Which the Muslims are trying to do anyway.

[balrog666]

It's *GOOD* to be the King!

[conservative physics]

hehe

sounds like my family tree :)

when people ask me what I am ... I say I am a Euro-Mut :)

[Armigerous]

Indeed it did....my mother's ancestors (Richardson) were Royalists during the war and it was Cromwell's Commonwealth, which was essentially nothing more than a military dictatorship,to move to Virginia during that period

[redhead]

""Millions of people have provable descents from medieval monarchs," said Mark Humphrys, a genealogy enthusiast and professor of computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland."

Yah, and I never even got an invitation to any Windsor weddings... sigh

[ExpatGator]

I agree that the boastful braying about royalty or fame in one's lineage is pitiful.

However, being in touch with one's history and carrying on traditions is a positive. Case in point: my family has a 200 year tradition of providing Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Coastguardsman in the defense of our great nation. I am proud of the sacrifices of my ancestors and I honored that tradition by service and sacrifice in the U.S. Navy. A nephew is a Marine and deploys to Iraq this month. I am fairly certain that at least one of my three will carry on the tradition, and glad of it.

[redhead]

"Not to me...I'd rather descend from the devil himself than that pig fornicator."

Me, too. Who wants to be able to trace their lineage to a fig plucker? Ewwww... Just let me be descended from the usual bunch of philanderers, privateers, debauchers, incestors, and assorted other famous sowers of the royal/noble oats.

[Thumper1960]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

The human race is an incestuous rabble.

[Strategerist]

More lame new-age "we're all connected crapola". G-d split us up nicely at Babel for a reason.

We are indeed connected pretty closely. There's very little genetic variance in the human population.

I'm 1/2 Eastern European Catholic, and 1/2 long-term English immigrants to the US, and I did the National Geographic Genographic project test.

I don't have any male line exact matches, but of the several dozen people who are an almost exact match for me that have entered databases, one is a Pakistani man living in London. A lot of the others are Levite Jews.

[Mike Darancette]

Cromwell's Commonwealth, which was essentially nothing more than a military dictatorship

General Thomas Harrison broke with Cromwell over the Protectorate and was imprisoned by Cromwell 4 times.