Barbara, Here's a section from my database that may give you help in your quest for the ancestors of the Plantagenets. I selected the tree of Edward I, since he's one of the more common ancestors that we link to: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=plantagenet&id=I1780&style=TEXT I hope this is of help to you in your research. As always, corrections and additions are appreciated. Best, Kevin "Barbara" <ladybbug@earthlink.ne To: PLANTAGENET-DESCENDANTS-PROJECT-L@rootsweb.com t> cc: Subject: RE: [PDP] Ancestors of our ancestors 04/29/2004 01:25 PM Please respond to PLANTAGENET-DESCENDANT S-PROJECT-L Hello, Diane. Do I understand you to say you have gathered a list of ancestors of our Plantagenet ancestors? I am trying to build that part of my tree. And at what place and time does your Summerfield family tie in? I was trying to find information on my English great Grandmother who was a Summerfield. This is a pretty chatty list. I guess there are millions of us Plantagenet descendants. Nice to have some of them here together. Regards, Barbara Dudley Washburn -----Original Message----- From: SnowBeri@aol.com [mailto:SnowBeri@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:38 PM To: PLANTAGENET-DESCENDANTS-PROJECT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PDP] Ancestors of our ancestors In a message dated 4/29/2004 11:31:57 AM Mountain Daylight Time, gen9@cox.net writes: How many, for example, are working on the other end of our family tree? The ancestors of our Plantagenet ancestors? I have a list I've gathered if anyone is interested. Affiliated families: Asbury, Ayres, Barker, Barnum, Bates, Bauder, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Clark/Clarke, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Gardner, Geary, Goodale, Grim, Hall, Hardendorf, Harman, Harper, Hayes, Hurless, Keith, Marcy, Pier, Raney, Sawyer, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Summerfield, Tinkham, Vansant, Whitlam, Wilks, Wolford, Wood, Woolever Regards, Diane Wolford http://www.treelines.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

Cousins, While it's all very fun to trace ourselves back to Adam and David and Mark Antony and Odin and all the other amazing and purported ancestors of our tribe, these "lines" are all based on things like "Darda son of Judah MAY BE the same person as Dardanus, founder of Troy" and "Tea Tephi was said to be the daughter of the King of Judah, brought to the Emerald Isle by the Prophet Jeremiah himself" and even "Theodoric of Toulouse, AKA Thierry of Autun is PROBABLY the same person as Natronai Al-Makhir, Exilarch of Judah." Unfortunately, it's all a lot of hogwash. Let's not forget, we Plantagenet descendants, through the Carolingians and the Merovingians are ALSO supposed to be descendants of Jesus Christ by Mary Magdalene!!! Yeah, right. We DO, however, have some pretty cool ancestors who are quite well documented. Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, several Kings of France (Capetians, Carolingians, and probably Merovingians,) and Spain (including Saint Ferdinand) and more ancient rulers of Scotland and Ireland than you can shake a shilalagh at. Several Holy Roman Emperors, even a couple of later Byzantine Emperors like Isaac Angelos. We don't need no stinkin' Cleopatra. We have Eleanor of Aquitaine and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Regards, Chris --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs