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From: "MLS" <>
Subject: RE: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:23:03 +0100
In-Reply-To: <27d.42c3029.30fda631@aol.com>


YOU WROTE:
"Perhaps you feel like you want to be a member of some sort of elite
clan of
royal descendents :)"

Of course, this "clan" exist, and it's named "nobility" or, if you
prefere: "aristocracy"

If not, what's the definition of those words?

Marco


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Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors


In a message dated 1/16/06 4:04:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

<< So, 100 millions on 7 billions are ... Less than 2 per cent.... >>

I disagree with how you characterize what Denis said. Denis was
referring to
people who we *know* have at least semi-credible descent. However what
you
are failing to take into consideration (for some unknown reason) is that
a very
small percentage of the population cares about genealogy enough to do
the
work.

Those of us who have done the work *to* trace ourselves back are the few
who
care. That does not mean the rest of the population doesn't have an
ascent to
royalty. It means they haven't looked for it, or haven't found it yet.

Perhaps you feel like you want to be a member of some sort of elite clan
of
royal descendents :) However I'm fairly confident that anyone who puts
in the
twenty years or so that I have tracing my own line, will, like me, find
a
royal ascent somewhere.

Will Johnson



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