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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [BS] Royal Lineages
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:48:47 -0500
References: <620245.79066.qm@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Is that 1/4 chance of someone SAYING you're descended from royalty, or of
having it actually be true?

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Knox" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [BS] Royal Lineages


>> I may have just qualified "me" as a black sheep because I'm sure they
>> would
>> consider me a public embarrassment.......
>
> LOL! Funny! I'll meet you there, and I'll wear my "formal" pair of
> bluejeans .
> . . . .
>
> Somewhat related item - has anyone heard this one before?
> I don't know if this is genealogy's version of urban legend or not -
> I no longer have the source reference, nor can I find it via Google -
> but I recall that it was on the Internet years ago -
>
> In an academic-type article, drawing conclusions supposedly compiled from
> existing genealogies and family histories (apparently American and
> British,
> maybe including European):
> - if an ancestor lived in New England prior to the American Revolution,
> you had
> approximately a 1/4 chance (1-in-4 or 25%) of having descended from
> royalty;
> - if an ancestor lived in England (I don't recall if the article specified
> Britian/BritishIsles or just England) prior to the American Revolution,
> you had
> approximately a 1/3 chance of having descended from royalty; and
> - if an ancestor lived in LONDON prior to the American Revolution, you had
> approximately a 1/2 chance of having descended from royalty (specified in
> the
> article as 4x%; I recall it as either 44 or 45%).
> - (I don't recall whether they filtered for known bogus genealogies or
> not.)
>
> Anyone know the truth of this one?
>
> - Tom Knox
>
>
> --- wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:28:26 -0700
>> From: Paulette Williams <>
>> Subject: [BS] Royal Lineages
>> To:
>>
>>
>> Oddly enough, when your direct lineage connects to a throne you
>> automatically connect to every throne on the planet. One would think I
>> could
>> at least be invited to tea........... HEY....... I may have just
>> qualified
>> "me" as a black sheep because I'm sure they would consider me a public
>> embarrassment....... LOL
>>
>> ~ Paulette Williams ~
>> IBSSG
>> I hear ethereal whispers, persuasive,
>> soft and still,"Daughter, if you don't
>> remember us, who will ?"
>>
>
>
>
>
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