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From: "Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr." <>
Subject: Re: Lines back to Adam and Eve
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:08:13 -0700


The Wedgwoods of Wedgwood, Harracles
and Biddulph 1358-1678
http://www.Geocities.com/Heartland/3479/Gilbert.html
This resource shows descent to:
GILBERT WEDGWOOD, 1588-1678,
of which His Notable Descendants -
A Historical and Genealogical Resource
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3479/
They include: Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882),
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3479/Darwin.html

I believe Charles Darwin's ancestry is on topic,
as are his ideas, as they directly tie into GEN-
MEDIEVAL. I note, for example:
"The Germanic peoples (the Germans,
Dutch, Flemings, Anglo-Saxons, Franks,
Lombards, Scandinavians, Goths, Burgundians
and Vandals) who founded so many of
the modern states of Europe following
the demise of the Roman Empire, carried
the concept of heredity to its logical
conclusion in their virtually unique system
of kinship. Unlike their kinsmen, the Greeks
Italics, Celts, Slavs, and East Baits, they did
not organize themselves in patrilineal clans
and phratries which recognized only their
father's kinfolk, but saw kinship in fully
genetic terms. The Germanic 'kindred'
comprised all the individual's relatives on
both the paternal and the maternal sides,
assessing the degree of closeness according
to the closeness of their actual genetic
relationship; this was a quite different system
from the concept of patrilineal or matrilineal
clans so widespread amongst other peoples
of the world. This Germanic kindred was
the subject of the exhaustive study Kindred
and Clan in the Middle Ages and After
(Phillpotts 1917). To this day most North
Americans of European descent have come
to accept the Germanic tradition, where
kinship is determined by the closeness of
genetic relationship, whether the relatives
be on the maternal or paternal side, as
distinct from patrilineal and matrilineal
clan systems." REF:
Phillpotts, Bertha S. 1913 Kindred and
Clan in the Middle Ages and After.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

According to "The Concept of Heredity
from Mankind Quarterly, April, 1995"
. . .
"In the second half of the nineteenth century,
Charles Darwin finally restored the concept
of heredity to its rightful place with the completion
of his epic work, The Origin of the Species by
Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation
of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
([1859] 1914)."
http://www.duke.org/library/innate/pearson1.html

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/
Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th]
Who's Who In The West, 1998/1999
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
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"Todd A. Farmerie" wrote:

> Charles Darwin was not a genealogist, nor was he medieval. He is thus
> off topic, as are Adam and Eve.
>
> I also wish to remind posters to only quote those portions of a prior
> post which are relevant to the response, rather than repeating the
> entire post.
>
> ta

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