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Living descendants of Mark Antony

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Re: Living descendants of Mark Antony

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> A descent from antiquity isn’t something most of us can relate to, What? How so? Did we come out of thin air?

Virtually anyone with deep roots in england have landed gentry in their ancestry because statistically they survived long enough to have more progeny. So the base premise here is just wrong.

We're all descended from Adam, and Joseph of Aramathea.

Re: Living descendants of Mark Antony

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> A descent from antiquity isn’t something most of us can relate to, What? How so? Did we come out of thin air?

Well he is a "Prince". Of a non-existent Kingdom. So he cannot be wrong, can he?

Georgia is still around. He's just out of power.

Re: Living descendants of Mark Antony

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> A descent from antiquity isn’t something most of us can relate to, What? How so? Did we come out of thin air?

Virtually anyone with deep roots in england have landed gentry in their ancestry because statistically they survived long enough to have more progeny. So the base premise here is just wrong. We're all descended from Adam, and Joseph of Aramathea.

Virtually EVERY person, from every country, is descended from royalty/aristocracy of some kind somehow. And obviously, literally every person is descended from people who lived in antiquity.

The unusual thing is having a traced relation with royalty or stretching back this far.

Re: Living descendants of Mark Antony

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Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times. This blows that out of the water by about 600 years.
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