Geneology

[davedove]

(Not that I think there is anything special about having royal or aristocratic ancestry, other than it makes filling in the blanks in genealogical research a whole lot easier.

Right, unless you are in the line of inheritance, it really doesn't mean much to say you have a royal ancestor. The truth be told, if you back a ways, just about everyone will have some sort of noble ancestor. It's an interesting thing to find, and even something to brag about if you want, but that's about all it's good for.

[Livingston]

Right, unless you are in the line of inheritance, it really doesn't mean much to say you have a royal ancestor. The truth be told, if you back a ways, just about everyone will have some sort of noble ancestor. It's an interesting thing to find, and even something to brag about if you want, but that's about all it's good for.

Too true. One of my co-workers saw me working on mine at lunch one day and saw that there were about 18 or so kings of various sorts. He asked if that means that he needed to start calling me sire. I just told him "no, my family got out of the country running business years ago, now we're just royal pains in the @$$"