Ancestry/Genealogy

I've also run into "hints" that say a guy was born before his own grandfather, etc.

And so many people are so eager to make themselves descendants of royalty that they put any old shit into their family trees.

In fact, one of my nieces got involved in some "Ten (or whatever number) things about myself" games on Facebook, and posted that our family is related to Anne Boleyn.

Seems her mom...my sister...had been telling her that for decades.

I have no proof of that on dad's side, and mom's side is a mishmash of mystery and misinformation that's making it all very frustrating to figure out more than three generations back.

Plus there's the small matter of History here, and no direct line going back to Anne herself.

Even my son got all worked up for a long time thinking we might have been related in some way to Lady Jane Grey, but our family name, I found out, was something entirely different when our ancestors came to Canada from France with the military, and only took the name (which did later become my family name) based on the regiment one of them was in.

I honestly don't know why people are so crazy about being related to royalty...as if being descended from ordinary people can't be interesting enough. I'm amused to find that some of my ancestors were pirates!