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From: Nathaniel Taylor< >
Subject: Re: Disproved royal lines Re: Thomas Warren's royal ancestry
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:12:37 -0500


In article <>,
(Barbara Bennett) wrote:

> --- "R. Battle" <> wrote:
> > While it would certainly be useful to have such a
> > resource, it wouldn't
> > really tell the whole story. Two points -- First,
> > GBR has probably seen
> > most (if not all) of the claimed RDs of American
> > immigrants that have been
> > published, so the mere fact that a published line
> > didn't make it into the
> > book is in itself indicative of probable problems.
>
> I was under the impression that Gary's book only
> contains 1 royal line for each immigrant, the one he
> considers the "best" line. If so, then there could be
> many valid royal lines that are not in his book.

True. Anyone descended from one king is virtually assured to be descended
from dozens. But the vast majority of *spurious* royal descents are
flawed at or near the generation of the immigrant, so severing one lines
severs all of them.

Nat Taylor

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