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From: Stewart Baldwin <>
Subject: Re: Faris Correction
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 00:39:07 GMT


(Nathaniel Taylor) wrote:

>I can understand. I'm wrestling with the crippling demoralization of only
>being descended from colonists with Plantagenet ancestors no later than
>Henry II (or from Robert II of Scotland, who, while he actually postdates
>Edward III, is himself descended from no English kings more recent than
>Henry I and no continental ones more recent than Henri I).

>So I should have no ancestors in volume 1 of the new Faris (sniff).

My heart bleeds for you. ;-)
The best I have been able to do is a plausible descent (with gaps) from
Henry I through the Bostocks, and a plausible descent (also with gaps) from
Robert II of Scotland through the Agnews. Of course, maybe I'm just being
too picky about my documentation. If I relaxed my standards to include all
published lines, I would have several royal descents, including one from
Henry IV (which is easily disproven), but I am not yet that desperate for a
royal line. ;-)

Stewart Baldwin

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