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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2212756, member: 42634&quot;]well, sort of.&nbsp; we all may be related to willaim the conquerer, but we&#039;re not all equally related to him.&nbsp; at least after 1000 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; check out this map, it&#039;s for some info on the y chromosome but i think it&#039;s a pretty good surrogate for genetic relatedness in the pre-modern world.&nbsp; just look at the colors, they are related groups.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/World_Map_of_Y-DNA_Haplogroups.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>interesting to think about the ancient world on top of that map, the dark blue area of western europe...i think that pretty much represents what history would call &quot;the celts&quot; and their migration. (this is probablyNOT quite correct, but i&#039;ll leave it in).</p><p><br /></p><p>anyway, the dark blue europe group would include william and his family.&nbsp; i have ancestors from that group, and am probably in some way related to him.&nbsp; if you have mainly african or eastern asian ancestors, you probably aren&#039;t, at least at the level of 1,000 years in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>if you see that star in west central africa (y chromosome adam), that pretty much nails us as equally related, around 200,000 years ago.&nbsp; before our great-(multipy my a bunch) grandparents moved out of africa.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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