[LMB] OT: Life catches up with Rene Vorbrettan

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvus Tarn" <sylvus at rejiquar.com>


> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 08:17 -0400, Sylvus Tarn wrote:

>> >  > now all descended from Charlemagne; IOW, that after so many
>> >  > generations the chances for a given person to end up (officially
>> >  > or informally) as one's ancestor have been so numerous that it's
>> >  > more likely than not.
>>
>> This is a claim my genealogist uncle made after he found a Welsh
>> ancestor.  He was in hog heaven, cuz, it seems, the Welsh held the
>> family/clan responsible out 7 generations for certain offenses, so
>> they kept excellent records.  Once he documented these folk, he said,
>> we were in.  And so was anybody else, the difficulty being the
>> documentation, not the ancestry.
>
> Oh, my mistake.  In this version it was William the Conqueror.  But he
> did say, and I always thought more believable, that everyone in England
> (or maybe GB---wasn't savvy on the distinction at the time) was related
> at least by 1/32 until WWII came along.

I don't think so, my mother's father was born in Poland and his family moved 
to England sometime before WWI, for that matter, my mother's mother ? had 
relatives in England who had to have moved there sometime in the late 1880s 
or so, they changed the family name from Schneider to Norman during WWI 
because they were making coffins for the British Army...

Some people have generational longevity in the same area, others pack it up 
and move out...