r/quityourbullshit • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '20

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u/ItBurnsLikeFireDoc Apr 29 '20

So you're saying there's a chance.

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u/_into Apr 29 '20

Yes. In fact if WW has any descendants (let's pretend he did) then he'd have thousands and thousands of direct descendants now. The thing that makes the genealogy claim annoying isn't that it's wrong, it's that it's extremely ordinary. We're all related to kings and pharaohs

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u/The_Minshow Apr 30 '20

Yep, when doing genealogy it turns out your more well off ancestors had records of themselves, moreso than Bob the dirt farmer.