Hi,

> but of course the nice thing about genealogy is that you can choose the tributaries
> you wish to follow backwards, and overlook the ones that tweedle back to
> nothing

rather like people who go through 'past life regression'. They all
seem to have been Cleopatra or Alexander the Great in their past
lives. Nobody seems to have been the village idiot hanged from a
gibbet for molesting children, or the clap-ridden dockside prostitute
used by all the sailors when the fleet was in...

Here's how you can trace things back even further:
http://www.oxfordancestors.com/

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 Bob  

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