Still not really into genealogy

[flexagon]

Something kind of cool that happened recently: 23andme.com sent me a message saying a relative was sending me a message, and that based on our genomes he was probably a 3rd cousin or thereabouts. I sent him what scant information I have that goes back into great-grandparents, and we found a match. My great-grandmother was the sister of one of this guy's great-great grandmothers.

So it's neat that this website, which I joined purely to find out about health risks, managed to find something so real-world. That said, this guy is pretty different from me. He says in two different notes:

On my Father's side (Warren) I can go all the way back to William the Conqueror (1024-1087)and beyond, William de Warrene who was married to the Princess of England Gundrade and Daughter of Henry I King of England.

I'm into genealogy and have traced my father's line back to Isaac Warren (married to Priscilla Matlack, daughter of Timothy Matlack who physically wrote the Declaration of Independance based on the draft by Jefferson), Count William de Warrene's daughter Isabel married Henry I King of England in around 1150, and further back to William the Conqueror b 1024 d 1087 and Rollo a Danish Knight from sometime pre-900 AD.

Would it totally ruin this guy's day if I told him all people are related when you go back far enough?

Comments

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Yeah.... he probably wouldn't like that much. I've always wondered about the people who were really into being related to royalty or famous people.

[flexagon]

Yeah. I figure it must be kind of nice to be them, though, since nearly everyone can find some illustrious figure among their ancestors. As long as they don't do the math, they get to feel special.