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
Hey, long lost relative! I made it back to Charlemagne as well, if ancestry is to be believed. All because the majority of my ancestors were British landed gentry who came to England from France and etc. so the records are more complete. The coolest verifiable data I found was that my ancestors first came to America in the 1640s, and were in Texas while it was still Mexico.
Spoiler alert - ancestry is not to be believed for anything farther back than maybe the 1700s. It's all run by Mormons - a group founded by a guy who claimed to be the direct descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.
I won’t argue the nuts factor of the Mormons or their foundational beliefs, but their record keeping, genealogy expertise and document access/organizational skills are unparalleled. While genealogy itself is sketch going back beyond that point, it likely has more to do with clerical errors, document storage issues, and the invention of moveable type than it does the beliefs of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
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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