Do I have any claim? I am related 2 Sophia ov Hanover. I'm also Edward I 26th cousin or he's my 26th gg?

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in Genealogy Help by Living Foster G2G6 Mach 2 (27.6k points)
Any claim to *what*? Please be more specific.

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Welcome to the family our common ancestor is Elizabeth (Aldridge) Farley Aldridge-101

Do any of us have any claim should the question.

I am also a grandson of Plantagenet-2 and a few others and I also made stickers but your stickers look better.
by Doug Tabor G2G6 Mach 8 (84.8k points)
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And? So? Who cares? Any given random person who lived in the 12th century who has descendants down to the present likely has many millions if not hundreds of millions of descendants. The majority of people of English ancestry are almost certain to be descended from the Angevin and Plantagenet kings. The number of ancestors you have doubles with every generation; at a certain point you have more potential ancestors than people who were alive, and thus you must necessarily be a descendant of most of the people in a given population who left descendants down to the present. 29 generations ago one has over 546 million potential ancestors; the population of England in the year 1300 was only around 3 million (and declined by nearly half thanks to the Black Death at mid-century, so a significant percentage of that three million have no descendants). Considering that, it would be far stranger (approaching mathematical impossibility) if, being of mostly English ancestry, you were not descended from Henry I or John Lackland.

by C Handy G2G6 Pilot (207k points)
Yes, but...  We're all more likely descended from William the Conqueror than not; that's a given.

The trick is to prove it with a reasonable degree of certainty!
Yes, but even being able to prove it doesn't entitle one to any special privilege (there are probably at least fifty million Americans who can trace a line to medieval royalty).

It entitles you to the genealogical privilege of feeling vaguely smug! wink

I'd rather find a descent from Wat Tyler.

I do have a distant great-uncle who killed a king (through what passed for medical treatment in the 17th century, and not deliberately, though!).

I have a royal ancestor as well, but my connection comes from, as some say, the wrong side of the sheets! smiley

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