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Originally Posted by Cali Doll
On the surface, I agree, they seem quite different...but, that’s what’s so great about them, IMO.
Also, they are clearly in love. I am kind of obsessed with them after watching their BBC interview.
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I completely agree with the bolded.....and I'm glad someone else can see it.
With all that is available online now, I hope their union sparks even more interest re people having fun looking into their ancestry.
Decades before the internet came along, someone in my family hired some sort of specialist and had our lineage papers done. His wife was a member of one of the lineage groups that goes back to the founding of the U.S., and wanted to see if he qualified (he did). I was given a copy of our lineage papers as a young adult. I'm a Mayflower Descendent, and a Jamestown Settlement Descendent, and my great-grandfather was a 14th cousin of Queen Elizabeth. If Meghan and Harry have kids, the kids will be 17th cousins of mine. For some reason I can't completely put my finger on (perhaps their personalities?), the thought of their union is much more exciting (to me) than that of William and Kate.
You're likely too young to remember the former, but two events that I can think of sparked at least a bit more interest in genealogy here in the United States....
1. When Prince Charles and Diana married
and to a much greater extent (IMO)....
2. When Obama became President of the United States.
I have a number of web pages re this saved on a hard drive somewhere, but people can easily do searches.
Diana brought more connections to the U.S., as she is related to a number of well known people here, including the Bushes. The Bushes, John Kerry, and Obama are all related, and also a few included in that far reaching web (off the top of my head) are Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Hillary, and Brooke Shields, and (
), from history, Vlad the Impaler. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were distantly related before they got married.
When I was in my 20s, I thought about joining the Sons of the American Revolution....I ended up deciding I could always do it at some date far in the future.
At that point in my young life, I went to a SAR meeting, and brought my lineage book.
I was probably the only person under age 60 at that meeting
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Many of the old guys poured over my book, and found people they said were part of their own lineage.
I've heard that as recently as the 80s, as high as 12% of the U.S. population = Mayflower Descendants, but I don't know if that was the case, or not.
Someone on this thread posted a link that describes how Harry and Meghan are already distantly related......made me think about digging up my lineage book and checking come of the names from that link.
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