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Originally posted by schuyler
Wait a second here. You and I are cousins, too. Do the math. With 4 generations per century, which is being a bit miserly since it could easily be five, by the time you get back a mere 1,000 years, you have over a TRILLION ancestors. 2-3-8-16-32-1 trillion. Obviously, 1,000 years ago there were way less than a billion people on Earth. In fact, it was somewhere between 300 and 400 million. Given how genes disseminate, you're just as related to Emperor Ching in China s you are an African potentate because all it takes is ONE guy to kind of get lost, get married, and spread his genes.
In other words, we're all related to William the Conqueror, even though few of us can prove it. I can through the Montague line, but so can you if you worked at it. Everyone here is related to Chalamagne. Absolutely staistically guaranteed.
SO, everyone reading this except, perhaps a genuine Native American with ancestry on this continent back 12,000 years pure, is a cousin to Bush, a cousin to Blair, a cousin to Romney, and a cousin to Obama.
A child could do the math. This is no big deal. "Bloodlines" be damned. It's a false issue. Get over it.
Originally posted by jude11
6 degrees of separation law connects us all.
en.wikipedia.org...
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy and popularized by a play written by John Guare.
Peace
edit on 9-9-2012 by jude11 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by MeTarzan
We've seen a number of these "elite" family trees (that have even gone mainstream) linking British royalty with US presidents, and US presidents related to each other. However, I have NEVER seen a family tree linking a rank-and-file "commoner" to British royalty and to successions of US presidents. So, it's one thing to brush it off and say "We're all related!" but it's another thing to actually prove it.
If there's nothing unusual about these bloodline relationships, there's an easy way for skeptics to debunk it. Research your own commoner bloodline and show us your blue-blood credentials.
Originally posted by GLontra
Originally posted by MeTarzan
We've seen a number of these "elite" family trees (that have even gone mainstream) linking British royalty with US presidents, and US presidents related to each other. However, I have NEVER seen a family tree linking a rank-and-file "commoner" to British royalty and to successions of US presidents. So, it's one thing to brush it off and say "We're all related!" but it's another thing to actually prove it.
If there's nothing unusual about these bloodline relationships, there's an easy way for skeptics to debunk it. Research your own commoner bloodline and show us your blue-blood credentials.
The reason for that is very simple: nobody ever researches the ancestry of some rank-and-file "commoner"... Nobody is interested in researching that.
Originally posted by GLontra
When this nonsense will stop?
When people will finally understand that EVERYONE is related, that EVERYONE is cousin of everyone?
If I do some research, I can easily prove that RON PAUL is also a "distant cousin" of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
Don't you know that the pilgrims of the Mayflower have over 50 million descendants alive today?
EDIT: after doing some research, I just discovered that Ron Paul doesn't have any British ancestry at all. His ancestors are all from Germany, Austria and Ireland. But if he had British ancestry, he would SURELY be a cousin of Obama and Romney...
edit on 11-9-2012 by GLontra because: (no reason given)
EDIT: after doing some research, I just discovered that Ron Paul doesn't have any British ancestry at all. His ancestors are all from Germany, Austria and Ireland. But if he had British ancestry, he would SURELY be a cousin of Obama and Romney...
Because we must believe everything we see and hear on YouTube.
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by SeventhSeal
Because we must believe everything we see and hear on YouTube.
It's always easy to spot the people who haven't read the thread.
There have been numerous sources provided to back up the findings. I would link them in this post for you but I'll just let you continue thinking your fallacious argument made sense.
News Flash: Everyone is actually related to everyone else.