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    1. RE: [PDP] Ancestors of our ancestors
    2. Barbara
    3. Sounds like so many amateur family genealogy web sites - Never let nasty old facts spoil a captivating hypothesis Would that make Jesus my 234th uncle - or something? My minister daddy would have been so proud.... Barbara Jim wrote: He was mentioned in all four Gospels of the New Testament and was written about by Flavius Josphus, so there's certainly reason to believe he existed. As I recall he was said to have been variously the uncle of Mary, mother of Jesus or was really James, Jesus' brother, who changed his name. Joseph's daughter, from Arthurian legends, Anna or Enygeus, was said to have married Bran 'the Blessed', the Arch Druid who in Welsh and British legendary sources was ancestor of the early British kings. Bran was reputedly the son of Llyr, who himself, according to legend, was the Celtic god who ruled the sea. So, not to put too fine a point on it, we have some unknown (probably pagan) British king claiming descent from a legendary demigod married to an early Christian/Jewish relative of Jesus, and... we can't prove any of it. Hey, works for me! :-P Jim ============================== 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

    04/29/2004 01:16:02