Posted on 07/01/2006 1:23:09 PM PDT by AntiGuv
Yes, that's right, a family tree showing purported descent from Ramesses II "the Great", a pharaoh of Egypt.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/l/a/Christopher-A-Clark-/ODT9-0001.html
I'm going to go take a shower.
And then I'm going to eat a bag of pork rinds.
My descendants will be proud to say that they can trace their ancestry to Alouette!
That post was a gem.
[rimshot!]
I did extensive genealogical research, but lost continuous lines when it got into Spain and France.
I did find one woman whose family was supposedly related to one of the kings of France- a Charles I believe.
Then there was the dubious honor of finding the ORIGINAL male chauvinist pig as a rather close ancestor- Nicholas Chauvin deLery. Lots of titled French ancestors, many of whom were executed for belligerance against the Spanish.
I think this everyone is a descendant of Mohammed rot is BS.A sad attempt at making the world Islamic by default? Kumbaya, we are all related and we all owe our lives to Mohammed- yeah, its a raghead world...Talk about desperate!
I had a friend who claimed to be from Alexander the Great.
He, of course, was delusional. The great assumption in all this is records.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the records exist. Without them, all is fabrication and wishful thinking.
Umm.. Alexander's the Great's only child was assassinated at age 13...</p>
Umm.. Alexander's the Great's only child was assassinated at age 13...</p>
On my Basque (French) side I got back to March 10, 1340. Before that time there were no surnames in the town.
Ah, yes, when HBO was brand new! I remember it well. My brother-in-law had stumbled across an old rounded-tube color TV. The signal scrambling of the time did not work on tube televisions, so we got HBO for free the whole six months the set lasted.
Since we were both unemployed at the time, we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail every day until we had memorized every line! That's part of the reason I gave up, and enlisted in the USAF.
What made French research hard was the fact that almost every son named a son after the family patriarch. So there were a dozen Jacques per generation. Of course only the eldest of a huge family got any inheritance, so being related to the Sieur de Bienvilles 4th son does not get you any points with 5th cousins in the social register.
I think the oldest name I got was that female I mentioned, and that was the 1200s.
Those greeks sure got started early, didn't they?
No way will I accept that Muhammad is in my family line.
btt
So Shirley MacClain was right?
I know what you mean. My Grandmother was a Henry, of the Patrick Henry line. Her mother was Jewish, so what does that make me? But then, Great Grandmother was also Welsh. This is all on my mother's side.
Family tradition on my fathers side has it that our branch of an old Scottish lowland family are descended from James 5 of Scotland.
Of course, James 5 was by-named The 'Gudeman o'Ballengeich', that is, the farmer of Ballengeich, which is a district of Stirling, just under the castle. James's fields were women, and his crops were bastard children. He had many, so it isn't such a big thing in Scotland to be descended from James 5.
Possibly Jewish. By Jewish law, Jewish lineage is derived from the mother.
You're saying this is your mother's side of the family. If your grandmother's mother is Jewish, that means your grandmother is Jewish. If her daughter (your mother) is Jewish, then guess what that makes you.
My family is related to several powerful families from England, France, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.
Have a few Kings, Counts, Viscounts, Dukes, Earls ect.
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