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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2212606, member: 71234&quot;]Just about everyone has a family connection to William. If your number of ancestors doubles every generation, and allowing 25 years as one generation, 4 generations takes you to 16 ancestors, 200 years and it is 256, about 2000 after 300 years, 16,000 after 400 years, 200,000 odd after 500,&nbsp; 3,000,000 after 600,&nbsp; 50,000,000 or so after 700 years, almost 1,000,000,000 after 800 years ---- well, you can see the way this is going. There just were not that many people,&nbsp; so by the time you get back 1000 years, everyone is sharing just about everybody as ancestors or relatives, albeit very distant.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course, any supposed direct line over that period is absurd unless it is purely matrilineal,&nbsp; as research has shown that one in eight putative fathers are not the father of the child, meaning that over 1000 years you could expect at least 5 failures of patriliniage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even with a matrilineal line, odd things can happen with children now and again, off the record.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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