> Charani. > Seeing your connection to Shapwick,I well remember many years ago > seeing a George WARRY of Shapwick House,who's wife was one of the Many > Thousands of Descendants of King Edward III.[R.1327-1377] These were > listed in the book "The Plantagenet Book of the Blood Royal",By the > Marquis De Revigney, who estimated that in 1905,when he published his > 5 Volumes of his books,that there were at least 50,000 LIVING > Descendants of That King. I have now bought a Disc of those 5 > volume's.But I am as yet to figure out of there is an Index to the > many thousands of People,and more importantly,The Hundreds of Family > tree's it shows. The Moral of this message being,If YOU think you are > descended from Royalty? Then "Join the queue!" Cheers Graham. > > -- > Graham Williams.of > Canton,Cardiff. > Chairman,"Canton Historical Society". > Glam;FHS;#551. > At least two of my colleagues on the Board of Trustees of the Society of Genealogists are descended from William the Conqueror and can prove it. When I proudly told them over dinner one night that I was NOT descended from Bill the Bastard they demanded to know if I could prove it! Of course I can't, but to date I have never found an iota of evidence that I have any royal blood and, what is more, I don't seek any, being a republican! However, it's back to the old conundrum, isn't it? You only have to go back around 20 generations or so and we all have a million ancestors, doubling in every generation before that. And yet in the Middle Ages the entire population of Britain is reckoned to have numbered no more than a couple of million. So, disregarding immigrants, the theory goes that just about everybody must be descended from some royal personage or other somewhere along the line. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE