It's worth remembering that there's every chance that many people in this country, who are not descended from immigrants, are related to Egbert of Wessex. We each have two parents, four grandparents, eight greatgrandparents and so on, doubling in each generation. Go back ten generations and there are 1056 'parents' in that rank, another ten generations and it's more than a million! At that rate, we each have more than two trillion 'parents' in our 41st generation (more than two million million). Clearly, it's not possible that they were all separate individuals: there must be a huge amount of duplication. We are probably all related to each other! The new baby is lucky in some respects that he can prove that he is descended from Egbert of Wessex; we've probably most of us got some royal blood as well, but we can't prove it. But think on this: the baby will be denied the great pleasure of tracing his ancestry for himself, whereas i have had the pleasure of a fascinating hobby for the last thirty years. I've been lucky enough to trace several of my lines back to the middle of the sixteenth century, when parish records began. No royal blood as yet, but one direct ancestor who was falconer to Napoleon Buonaparte. I should hate to have had all of that done for me!