Sunday, November 8, 2009

WE ARE ALL DESCENDANTS OF CHARLEMAGNE


My father always proudly believed he was a descendant of William the Conqueror. This simple diagram below shows that anybody would have to be. This was explained to me by Dr. Joseph Chang at Yale. The illustration shows ten generations divided into two groups. By the 8th generation anyone is either without descendants at all or is an ancestor shared by a current individual.

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