Coldkick wrote:
happymusic wrote:
Coldkick wrote:
2. Henry VIII of England - King of England (21 April 1509 – 28 January 1547)
You and I are related. My mom's descended from King James IV of Scotland and he and Henry VIII had common ancestors. What up, cuz.
Wow, that is really interesting.
I wonder how many of us have common ancestors somewhere.
I love genealogy and learned lots and lots of family names and history so that it became clear that about half of Virginia has origins in common with my family - and that's just my mom's side - my dad's isn't from here. Before birth control it seemed like it took about 100 years for one couple to basically bring about 500 people into the world. Ex: couple has 8 kids then maybe 6 or 7 or their kids have 7 or so and so on - every 20 years or so a new family comes about. It balloons pretty quickly.
It's stunning really. There are probably a good number of us here who share some fairly recent (within the last 500 years) DNA.