Re: bridging the Dark Ages in Europe genealogically

On Oct 1, 10:39 am, "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <Dian...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Is this lineage generally accepted as proven?  If so, we're cousins -- MRCA,
Richard de CLARE -- and my ancestry has just been catapulted back 500 years.
Whee!  But... how well supported is the lineage?

It's generally considered sound. I suppose if you define "proof" the
way some others do (that it isn't really proven that your father is
your father), then nothing is proven. Maybe we're all in the Matrix!

The lines back to the Irish Kings are probably the oldest direct lines
that anyone who claimed to be a "serious" genealogist would even
consider printing and putting on their wall. Even then, they
*barely* meet your definition of "bridging the dark ages". There are
none older (in Europe at least) that don't have serious leaps of faith
and conjecture.

Perhaps the best way to put it is that there is contemporary evidence
that "supports" each link, and that there is nothing to cast
aspersions against it, except the general "it was a long time ago, and
who really knew who was breeding with who".

Joe
.

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