AMERICAN ANCESTORS ORG ; MEGHAN MARKLE ROYAL and OTHER ANCESTORS
There are no charts showing the connections, but this article from the New England Historical Genealogical Society, is based on Meghan's father's heritage, which connects importantly to one specific immigrant to early Boston who descended from King Edward III (who died in 1377.) For Anglophiles, the connection to aristocracy that the Duchess of Sussex has will especially impress. More so, this article is about (GENEALOGICAL) PYRAMID COLLAPSE, which is, that the further you go back, the more chances there are that you will find familial connections with the same persons on more than one line. Among royal houses, this seems to be especially common since there were arranged marriages that kept them in land and property and aligned with allegiances.
The population was smaller. People tended to marry local or within their class or status. Earlier death often meant earlier marriage and quick remarriage, step and half siblings. And sometimes a person might just have had the genes or transmitted the genes to withstand so much that killed off most people. We find someone who had many children who lived to also spawn. For instance, among the Mayflower descendents, one particular passenger has the very most.
But I want to see the charts, the straight connections, because if we include cousins and other relations, probably every one of us is "related" to someone famous or who succeeded well in life, or someone infamous who failed.
The mysteries of DNA are being revealed bit by bit, but since we know that we are a combination of genes transmitted from both sides of our family, that each generation is a different combination of genes, that genes mutate, a genetic heritage that is documented back 700+ years or so may well have little to nothing to do with us.
Not responsible for what our ancestors did or did not do, so we can't take credit, but we can come to understand them and their lives and their times better, and reflect on how that has influenced us. What choices did they have? What choices do we have?
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