If you go far enough back, I suspect each of us has at least one "royal" ancestor. But keep in mind that long ago, a little kingdom in Europe might be about as big as a county in the US is today. But the ruler was still "King Harnuff the Obese" or some such luminary. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Dec 23, 2008, at 5:03 PM, marianne dillow wrote: > I know what you mean Marge,.. Genealogy leads us in many different > directions. In Culpeper I have my Mother's family lines of Graves, > Parks, Pulliam, etc and before that Holladay and others in > Spotsylvania. And many farmers among them. I have more farmers than > royalty. :) > > Marianne Dillow > > > --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Marge <msealock@mchsi.com> wrote: > > From: Marge <msealock@mchsi.com> > Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line > To: vaculpep@rootsweb.com > Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 12:38 PM > > I agree that genealogy is what it is...but you can hook your > ancestors to > anybody you want if you bend the lines a little. > > For instance the Cheney that obama is hooked to was no were near the > residing area where the other cheney's ancestors came from. And > there are > notes that obama's dunham relatives changed their names in New > Jersey back > in the late 1600's. > > I know it is thrilling to want to be related to some person in > history. But > I am proud of my ancestors if they only came from digging dirt in > the Lord > and Master's fields. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VACULPEP- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message