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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Oldest male line?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:27:38 -0500


Leonard M. Keane wrote:
>
> Interesting. I wonder if anyone has any specific lines they might want
> to post about? The Picts of Scotland were the last matriarchal society
> in western Europe that I know of, but of course their lineages are
> already ancient and probably, I would think, not well documented.
>

This is an understatement. The Pict lines have all been reconstructed
from lists of kings which only named their father. Connections through
the female line have been hypothesized based on nomenclature and
chronology, but with only a few exceptions, when the father was a
foreigner known from other sources, scholars have been unable to do more
than guess. (This hasn't stopped authors from generating extensive
family trees for these kings, but these should be taken with an ocean of
salt.)

ta

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