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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 14802, member: 25&quot;]<i>Af, what about my supposed line back to Oliver Cromwell. Is it likely he had a disproportionately large number of descendents, too?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>All family trees are based on the idea that the father is a known entity. Women the world over know this isn&#039;t always the case. Sometimes genetic analysis will support a theoretical descent as statistically possible, but over ten generations the chances of there being no fathers that do not make any contribution except in name become more than even.</p><p><br /></p><p>A matrilineal only chart must by the nature of things be more accurate, but your general family tree is pretty sure to have a few grafts on the branches.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only real qualification for many of these ancestral things is having enough money and time to do the research, which is a pretty good way of ensuring that the membership does not include any riff-raff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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