Ben RamseyApparently, 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.)
Larry Garfield@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!
Derick Rethans@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.
Simon Jones@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)