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From: Antique Mall of Mountain Home <>
Subject: Re: Oldest male line?
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 08:42:36 -0500


>In article <54mmof$>,
> (bryan tinlin) wrote:
>
>> What is the oldest traceable European straight male line from someone who
>> is alive today? Are there any male line descendants of Charlemagne in the
>> present day or, if not, who was the last one?
>
>Can't answer that. Just want to mention that I've always been a bit puzzled
>by the obsession with the male-line descent so favored by early
>genealogical authors. It's pure hell, even today, trying to trace the
>allied female lines after getting back 3 or 4 generations. But in my mind
>these lines are every bit as important as the "direct" male line; the
>contributed blood lessens in equal measure in all cases.
>
>Thus it was that my first book dealt with my mother's ancestry, my second
>with my father's...and each proceeded to follow allied female lines as
>completely as possible.
>
>Whenever getting back a couple of generations to the ancestry of a maternal
>grandmother, one seems always to encounter the reversion to a male line in
>the thought patterns of about everyone involved--resulting in great
>difficulty uncovering spousal history.
>
>Tom Camfield -
>
>
Tom:

Thank you for bringing this into the open. I have been working for
about 15 years on my lines. Have many dead ends, mostly on the women.

My daughter has just begun helping me and wants to trace only the direct
male decendants. "Why", I ask. It takes two for every generation.

I will be posting queries on my lines soon. Thanks to all.

Georgia Williamson

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