Ben Ramsey

Apparently, George Washington is my 4th cousin, 10 times removed.

(Going that far back, I bet a lot of folks in the US can claim something like this.)

Mar 18 at 5:39amWeb
Show threadBen RamseyMar 18
And Queen Elizabeth II is my 7th cousin, 4 times removed (related through her mother’s family).
Show threadSindarina, Edge Case DetectiveMar 18
@ramsey Yeah, once you go back far enough, everyone's related 😄
Show threadbenMar 18
@ramsey to be fair a lot of people are Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin, including her husband.
Show threadLarry GarfieldMar 18

@ramsey We recently discovered that we're probably related to Welsh royalty from the 900s or something. Which means we're somehow related to all the royalty in Europe.

Hello, cousin!

Show threadMichaelMar 18
@Crell @ramsey Welsh royalty? Is that even a thing? I thought they were absorbed into the Kingdom of England well before there was a Welsh kingdom…
Show threadLarry GarfieldMar 18
@michael @ramsey I'll have to check with my wife on the details. She was doing the research. (Though it's through my mom's side.)
Show threadBen RamseyMar 18
@michael @Crell Not sure there was a singular united Welsh kingdom, but they did have kings and royals. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/Kings-Princes-of-Wales/
Kings and Princes of Wales

A full list of the Kings and Princes of Wales, including the English Princes of Wales

Historic UK
Show threadMichaelMar 18
@ramsey @Crell yeah, some local ones iirc (in my defence I'm not English, Welsh or Scottish, so didn’t learn about these things at school)
Show threadDerick RethansMar 18
@Crell @ramsey https://www.waterstones.com/blog/family-fortunes-adam-rutherford-on-how-were-all-related-to-royalty — the book is also worth the read!
Family Fortunes: Adam Rutherford On How We Are All Related to Royalty | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones

Having taken readers on a four-billion-year detective hunt for the origin of life in his book Creation, author, scientist and self-confessed geek, Adam Rutherford turns his attention to the stories hidden in our genetic past. As his latest book, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, uncovers what history can tell us about our genes and what our genes can tell us about history; in an exclusive article for Waterstones he reveals a royal secret hidden in everyone’s history.

Show threadBen RamseyMar 18
@derickr @Crell Interestingly enough, I think I’m also directly descended from Edward III. I’ll have to go back and double-check.
Show threadSimon JonesMar 18

@derickr @Crell @ramsey Adam Rutherford is great, I read his excellent book How to Argue With a Racist.

He talks about the ancestry and the genetic isopoint - the date that anyone with living relatives today is related to everyone.

For people with European ancestry that’s supposed to be around 1000 A.D. So we are all probably all related to Welsh royalty!

(I am actually 1/4 Welsh too)