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Related: About this forumDiscovered I'm related to King Louis XVI of France!
From my 23 and me test!
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Discovered I'm related to King Louis XVI of France! (Original Post)
bif
Jun 28
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JustAnotherGen
(36,812 posts)1. Welcome to the family


bucolic_frolic
(52,146 posts)2. Thanks for the 23 and me idea
From genealogy researchers that I looked at 20+ years ago (lineage charts), I'm related by marriage way back when to a physician in the court of French King Francis I. He was likely at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a summit with King Henry VIII of England.
Other ancestors include a Pilgrim sibling and a famous name back more than 1000 years, but I don't feel any different after learning these things. I feel like I didn't get the juice.
bluedigger
(17,293 posts)3. I wouldn't lose my head over it.
JustAnotherGen
(36,812 posts)4. Oh!

bif
(26,190 posts)6. I'm also related by marriage
To Frances Scott Key!
EYESORE 9001
(28,917 posts)7. I'm descended from Charlemagne
Along with roughly 1/3 of everyone of European descent. They did love em some procreation.
Seriously, I once followed a genealogical trail back to the first Christian kings of Ireland - the ones St. Patrick baptized.