Ancestry/Genealogy
Related: About this forumDiscovered I'm related to King Louis XVI of France!
From my 23 and me test!
JustAnotherGen
(38,109 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,816 posts)From genealogy researchers that I looked at 20+ years ago (lineage charts), I'm related by marriage way back when to a physician in the court of French King Francis I. He was likely at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a summit with King Henry VIII of England.
Other ancestors include a Pilgrim sibling and a famous name back more than 1000 years, but I don't feel any different after learning these things. I feel like I didn't get the juice.
bluedigger
(17,450 posts)JustAnotherGen
(38,109 posts)Trueblue1968
(19,324 posts)bif
(27,227 posts)To Frances Scott Key!
EYESORE 9001
(29,885 posts)Along with roughly 1/3 of everyone of European descent. They did love em some procreation.
Seriously, I once followed a genealogical trail back to the first Christian kings of Ireland - the ones St. Patrick baptized.
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