I’ve seen this a lot in my research every family seems to have one even my family tree has a women some claim was a Native American(or about 3 other races the story isn’t clear) but what’s up with this?

  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Everyone wants to be special. There are countless family trees where a distant ancestor was royalty, or a celebrity, or someone else who was notable. Nobody wants to accept that their family is ordinary, so they believe the tenuous links that give them an interesting story.

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      8 months ago

      Granted there are lots of people wanting to find skmething interesting in their family line. On the other hand, it’s not THAT uncommon for American families to have a native in their family tree. And basically everyone on earth is descended from some kind of royalty.

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        8 months ago

        I mean look at people like Genghis Khan there’s supposedly millions of million descended from him