Regarding where you come from… You have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on, doubling with each generation. Going back 30 generations, you have over one billion ancestors. Or, at least you should have. The problem is that thirty generations cover about one thousand years, and there weren’t a billion people on earth a thousand years ago. What this means is that you are probably descended from everybody who lived a thousand years ago, provided that they do have any living descendants today. That includes everybody who still has living descendants, even royalty. If you’re family is from Europe, you’re descended from European royalty. If your family comes from Egypt, you’re descended from pharaohs. The same principal applies for other places in the world. Francis can be proud of his ancestry.
Regarding where you come from… You have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on, doubling with each generation. Going back 30 generations, you have over one billion ancestors. Or, at least you should have. The problem is that thirty generations cover about one thousand years, and there weren’t a billion people on earth a thousand years ago. What this means is that you are probably descended from everybody who lived a thousand years ago, provided that they do have any living descendants today. That includes everybody who still has living descendants, even royalty. If you’re family is from Europe, you’re descended from European royalty. If your family comes from Egypt, you’re descended from pharaohs. The same principal applies for other places in the world. Francis can be proud of his ancestry.