Descent of man - or truth is stranger than fiction

[colm_l]

This came up in conversation with some mates earlier today (while I was legging it for a bus) & I figured I should explain why I find it funny:

About 1000 years ago, an ancestor of mine died within arrow shot of my current home. How do I know this?

Short answer is a cousin of mine plotted a partial genealogy (complete with scratches & dead

Comments

[the_eoin]

So he's like Genghis Khan then?

[black_robed_one]

Good old Genghis and his ubiquitous Y chromosome.

[colm_l]

Exactly - only on a more localised level.

[munchkin305]

My Mum's currently working on our family tree. I think we've got it back to Hastings in some places. Others it's more difficult.