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From Yahoo! News: Queen Victoria illegitimate?

A book to be published this week says that Queen Victoria may have been illegitimate, possibly undermining the whole Royal Family’s legitimacy <…>

Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Just got off the phone with Uncle Tom Frost in San Antonio – he’s been bugging me intensely to send him some family photos he needs for a genealogy project he’s doing.  He’s making a book about the Frosts and wants to include a bunch of photos I posted to MyFamily.com.  The photos I scanned aren’t good enough, they want the originals.  John said he can pack them up for me at work, they have all the supplies to mail oddly-shaped photographs.  Still, what a pain.  One of these old photos is huge, around two feet by one foot!  And definitely not rollable, so you couldn’t send it in a poster tube.

The family tree’s been bothering me.  I deleted all that crap about being descended from William the Conqueror… I was looking at the dates, and checking some stuff out on the web about that lineage, and I can’t seem to find any that agree with each other!  It all looked so fishy to me that I just got out the pruning shears and deleted everything I could find that was before the year 1500.  An arbitrary number but it’s easy to remember!

UPDATE: Of course I later decided to put it back online, for better or for worse…

My ancestry section is growing, whether you care about that stuff or not. I’ve now traced three different indirect pathways to Benedict Arnold, a guy who was real popular with the British but got a bit of a bad reputation over here!

I’m only related to Benedict Arnold through marriage, not blood.  But if you want, you can still use this to explain why I’m such a bitch for ignoring my e-mail, owing you money, etc.

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I’ve been doing a huuuuge genealogy project, making a giant tree for myself and my family.  I’m going to put some family-related goodies up here soon, since I’m already sharing my tree with other folks anyhow.  But for now, have a look at my supposed link to William the Conqueror, King of England.

Now I practically have a license to act like a f*cking princess!

NOTE: I later deleted this thing for probable errors, but now I think it might be okay, though many of the dates still seem fishy.

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