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Fw: Fw: Family Tree Magazine - Americas nr 1 Family History

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 24 des 2004 07:41:01

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leo van de Pas" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au>
To: <Maytree4@aol.com>; <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Family Tree Magazine - Americas nr 1 Family History
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I can well understand that intention of Americans wanting to find Royal
Ancestors.........but as far as I am concerned "any ancestor will do", but
royal ancestors can take you back further in time and often you can find
biographical details about them as well. A fourteenth century butcher,
sadly, may not have left enough traces of him to be able to be linked to
anyone today, superb if you can find it. Also, I think it is great if you
can link yourself to history (I can't) by having an ancestor who
participated in an important historical event. Blue blood is only a
concept,
Napoleon Bonaparte did not have any but his brother Jerome's descendants
today belong to the "bluest of blue".

Another aspect is that if you are a descendant of any king, most of the
time
you can find out how you are linked to a great many people, Humphrey
Bogart,
Brooke Shields, and so on. It also can show you how all, and I mean all,
people are (genealogically) related to each other. I understand that
people
with Anglo-Saxon blood (never mind how remotely in their ancestry) are
related to all other people with Anglo-Saxon blood at the most about 25 or
so generations removed. This should emphasis the brother-hood of man and
that one person is as valuable as the next. The next step, of course, that
if this kind of knowledge is available, a lot can be learned with DNA and
other means. I really hope we are just at the beginning of knowledge that
can be extracted through DNA.

Royal ancestors?
Don't knock them, they are interesting, I wouldn't mind having just one
:-)
I don't mean that, if I find one great, if not? So what?
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: <Maytree4@aol.com
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Family Tree Magazine - Americas nr 1 Family History
Magazine



I have always wondered why is it that Americans seem so intent on
tracing
their lineage back to some King or other? Why can't they just be
content
with
being themselves. Surely, the 'blue blood' has thinned down
considerably
by the
time we get to the 21st century and there probably isn't too much of it
left.
Anyhow, I'm sure that for all that 'blue blood' they must also have the
occassional Ag. Lab, Blacksmith, Butcher etc., or other worthwhile
ancestors whom
we never seem to hear about.





Gjest

Re: Fw: Fw: Family Tree Magazine - Americas nr 1 Family Hist

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 des 2004 05:56:49

I am learning more history through my genealogical searching than I
ever did in a classroom. And that's a really strange thing for an
academic to say!

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