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From: Henry Churchyard <>
Subject: Re: Bogus Ancestors
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 12:44:26 -0500


In article <4m6vr6$>,
Rudolph A. Krutar <> wrote:

> #5. Never rely on historians. They are so interested in developing
> theories of the broad sweep of history that they ignore the genealogical
> facts. How many real people realize from schoolbook history that during
> World War I, the King of England, the Tsar of Russia, and the Kaiser of
> Germany were all grandchildren of Queen Victoria?

Errm.. I don't want to nitpick, but it was the Tsar's WIFE, not the Tsar
himself, who was descended from Victoria.

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