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From: Grant Menzies <>
Subject: Re: DESCENDANTS OF CHARLEMAGNE-----HOW MANY?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 23:41:13 GMT


(Chris Bennett) wrote:

>In article <>, Medieval Genealogy
>Discussion List <> wrote:

>> "More
>> >or less everyone in the western world is descended from the Emperor Nero,
>> >rather fewer from William the Conqueror, and a mere few hundred thousand
>> >from George Washington."
>> >
>> >Gordon Fisher
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> George Washington?? I thought he was childless??
>>
>> Dana
>>

>And just exactly how is _anyone_ descended from Nero!??

The quote about Nero looks like a snippet from the prologue of some
privately printed family history, of which descent from Priam and
Hecuba, via the Habsburgs, through the Earls of Denbigh, is the
hottest feature ;-)

G M Menzies

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