From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 2 19:12:34 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k631CYjb008716; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:12:34 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k631CWLA022807 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 19:12:32 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k62MZTFI007594 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:35:29 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k62MZTRV007593 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:35:29 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k62JxHFI007280 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:59:17 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k62MaATL014952 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:36:10 -0600 X-Envelope-From: canobit@gmail.com Sun Jul 2 16:36:10 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k62MaAjb014939 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:36:10 -0600 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k62MZwp0025057 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:36:05 -0600 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so1219884pyb for ; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:35:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=iX4dc4AH00BQCsp7wym33zoyd+lWetHxEjaM6cFu/FLuS55PcNXV8GVCZ7ISFWd/7YgS2XUKw20uEH3CdTgwpX+Cjx1ZcPegqMqRv77oKNXvUNmmLBpZipfCDGQNE7kjoOCs1XxnDclRLjOiTRx+XUyMAzGEuGzNHCCJJV9NpVI= Received: by 10.35.98.6 with SMTP id a6mr687139pym; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.92.5 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 15:35:59 -0700 From: canobit To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Genealogists discover royal roots for all Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Actress Brooke Shields has a pretty impressive pedigree -- hanging from her family tree are Catherine de Medici and Lucrezia Borgia, Charlemagne and El Cid, William the Conquerer and King Harold, vanquished by William at the Battle of Hastings. Shields also descends from five popes, a whole mess of early New England settlers, and the royal houses of virtually every European country. She counts renaissance pundit Niccolo Machiavelli and conquistador Hernando Cortes as ancestors. What is it about Brooke? Well, nothing -- at least genealogically. Even without a documented connection to a notable forebear, experts say the odds are virtually 100 per cent that every person on Earth is descended from one royal personage or another. "Millions of people have provable descents from medieval monarchs," said Mark Humphrys, a genealogy enthusiast and professor of computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland. "The number of people with unprovable descents must be massive." Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/mvg3y