When people on this site talk about their ancestors, they always assume they were the poor abused peasants or something. I for one acknowledge that my ancestors were probably committing atrocities. Lol I was thinking of the "we're running from the British again" post. Whatever, I know a myriad of my ancestors were the British. You know, if you go back far enough, we are not the descendents of simple peasants - we are the descendents of the kings and nobles of the time. I mean, in many such cases. I have done extensive genealogy research and on both my mom and dad's side, I am descended from these same people many times over. We all are. I mean, I'm speaking specifically of people of white European descent obviously 'cause that's what I've researched. For example, I can 100% guarantee you that you're a direct descendent of Charlemagne. Any line you trace that is actually recorded back far enough will eventually lead back to someone like that. That's one reason you can trace it in the first place. There are sites that have all this on record and make it very simple to trace because everyone is related to everyone, and a million other people have already done all this research for you and put it online. It is insanely easy to trace our ancestry in this day and age. Seems many don't realize. I eventually got bored with it because it seemed all lines of ancestry went back to the same sets of people. There was some variation. The furthest I've officially traced was like back to the year 0 on some Scottish line, I think. Sure, some of those records are probably fuzzy and possibly incorrect, especially when you get back to the point where it's like, this dude's father was Odin. You know, the god. Yes, I've gotten back that far. I could put Odin in my family tree if I wanted. 😂 Several such cases like that. You can get into all kinds of nonsense if you take the time and energy to find a line that goes back that far. Lots of them are dead ends, but many are not.
There are several people I just assume every white person is related to somehow because on both parent's sides, they've popped up in my tree like 50 times. The only one that's coming to mind right now is some dude name Rollo? I remember the name because it's like the candy. And the guy who plays him in that viking TV show is hot. He was like a viking who became the first ruler of Normandy. You could watch that show and be like, "Hey, there's grandpa!" You wouldn't be wrong!!!!
See, he was my 30th great grandfather!
I don't know why but it's almost funny to me.
And Charlemagne for example.
We're all cousins! Distant distant cousins!!! So no one is really special in that regard - being descended from these interesting people. But it's still neat to know that if they did not exist, you would not exist. Makes it seem more meaningful when you think of it like that. Makes you feel more connected to history.