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HelpFunny you should mention...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine... she's my ancestor!
King Henry III and King Edward I are my ancestors as well as Eleanor of Castile :) They're all traceable in my family tree. Pretty ironic to see all of these names mentioned when I just went through my family tree and found them all LOL.
King Henry III and King Edward I are my ancestors as well as Eleanor of Castile :) They're all traceable in my family tree. Pretty ironic to see all of these names mentioned when I just went through my family tree and found them all LOL.
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Dude they're like everyone's ancestors
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Make sure you get supporting evidence. A lot of people post connections on genealogy websites, but don't have the backup material to prove it. and some of it is based on rumour.
I have one ancestral line where someone keeps insisting that a man married an 'Indian princess'. and another that traces back to a medieval royal line in France, but it's just one researcher who has decided that so and so is the daughter of this duke without any real proof.
The internet has made genealogy easier and fun, but not very reliable as actually tracing the records yourself.
I have one ancestral line where someone keeps insisting that a man married an 'Indian princess'. and another that traces back to a medieval royal line in France, but it's just one researcher who has decided that so and so is the daughter of this duke without any real proof.
The internet has made genealogy easier and fun, but not very reliable as actually tracing the records yourself.
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Wow, you can trace your ancestry back that far? That's awesome. My mom has traced her side of my family to the first French colonists in Quebec and a little further back to France (I think mid-1500's?). It's so interesting to find out just who your ancestors were.
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If you are lucky enough to find a child of a royal- even the illegitimate ones have a paper trail. But the farther back I went, the less I believed it. I found a tree online for some of these ancestors, and it went all the way to Marc Antony's grandfather, also Marcus Aurelius Antonius (the Latin form of his name). I also found Old King Cole from the nursery rhyme and Cybeline- Shakespeare wrote a play about this legendary Briton king. It's basically the Prodigal Son.
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We've actually got it traced back to the 500's!!! Since from the 1400's back it's royalty it's pretty easy to trace. They kept good records of the royals back then :)
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