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From: "Chris K. Moore" <>
Subject: Re: DESCENDANTS OF CHARLEMAGNE-----HOW MANY?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 20:09:16 -0400


Grant Menzies wrote:
>
> "R. Leutner" <> wrote:
>
> >Anyone who has played around with long lines would agree, I think, that odds are very good that just about any contemporary W. Euro person
likely has a Charlemagne descent--it's hard to think of any population
so isolated as to be "immune."

<SNIP>
> I should think there is a significant portion of the African American
> population who have the blood of their white owners running in their
> veins. And since many (though not all) of the landowning Southern
> families descend from the English gentry, surely this would be a
> source for descent from Charlemagne. Of course, the challenge would
> be confirming which son of which family (a la Thomas Jefferson's
> situation with Sally Hemings) actually fathered children on which
> slavewoman, which could be more difficult than tracking down all of
> the illegitimates of Charlemagne himself ;-)
>
> G M Menzies

I would hope that you mean that the (present) Afro-Am.
population has the blood of their ANCESTORS' white owners running in
their veins!!

Chris

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