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Originally Posted by garinda

It does blow your mind, the number of direct anscestors we all have.

Someone once posted on here that all their anscestors were pure Lancastrian.

Until I pointed out that most geneologists work on the assumption that we have four generations a century, and as the number of anscestors double each generations, if we go back a thousand years, her great, great, great etc. grandparents very nearly out numbered the then population of England, never mind Lancashire.

I'm proud to be a direct descendent of the Henry I and the Plantagents, but they're one of thousands. I'm equally proud to be descended from the thousands of many x great-grandparents, who quietly toiled away, and who the history books don't tell us much about at all.

plantagents, that hous of york isnt it