GEN-MEDIEVAL-L Archives

Archiver > GEN-MEDIEVAL > 2000-02 > 0949704064


From: "Leo van de Pas" <>
Subject: Re: how far back? just curious.
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 06:41:04 +0800


Dear Heidi,

Your English is not bad (in my opinion) because you do get your message
across. I always believe we should ignore those lines going back to Adam and
Eve. I understand that geneticist have discovered that the first person (a
woman) to be regarded as 'human' lived some 10,000 generations ago. I have
never seen a line to Adam and Eve using 10,000 generations. Those lines
were often made for religious reasons and I have one a very large one on
hard-board but regard it only as a curiosity, not fact.

Also I understand that acceptable lines only go back as far as about the
year 500, there are lines that go all the way to Pharaohs of Egypt but then
they always indicate that certain links are only guesswork, sometimes
educated guesswork.

Best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Perth, Western Australia


----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: how far back? just curious.


> In article <>,
> wrote:
> > I was curious as to the most far back someone here has credibly been
> > able to trace their personal ancestry. Has anyone traced it back 500
> > years? 1000 years?
> >
> > There are people claming they have traced their ancesters back to
> Adam and Eve , and other biblical persons.
> If one is able to trace a line back to a royal persone one can go as
> fare as 1000-1500 years back ,and evan futher , but farer back you go ,
> the lines are dicutables , and guessinngs.
> Pardon my bad inglish.
> Heidi
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
>

This thread: