Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > Actually, it's "him", not "her", and the two that make > > my 126/128 instead of 128/128 are ancestors of his. > > > Oh, how I hate the Internet! Why there's no "Humanity > Database" with _all_ people that ever lived registered > in it, so that we can so this kind of search automatically? > > For example, how close I am to you? I imagine we might have > a common ancestral by 1600 or so.
Most of my ancestors at that point were in the British Isles. to the best of my knowledge. A few were in France. If you go to http://www.rootsweb.com and do a search on Thomas Degges, that'll get you some (about 1/8?) of my ancestry back to some point. (He's my father. There's a lot of stuff on his mother's mother's ancestry. Her name was Harriet Meade Jones. Starting from where you have Thomas Degges, that's the most up-to-date data that Randy Jones has up. You may be referred to another database or two of his on the same site.) Between the ancestors of my mother and the ancestors of my father, I'm probably related one way or another to over half the people who were in Virginia at the time of the American Revolution, including a number of scoundrels. :) (One ancestor who was alive in Virginia at that time was definitely a scoundrel, but he's on my mother's side, and his son or grandson was a very admirable figure.) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
