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  • #16
    Originally posted by Zkribbler

    and family legend says we're descended from the Hapsburgs.
    Everyones "family legend" has the Hapsburgs in there somewhere, I wouldn't read too much into it....;O)

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    • #17
      Robert the Bruce, King of Scots

      (got a brass rubbing of him in my house too)
      The Apolytoner formerly known as Alexander01
      "God has given no greater spur to victory than contempt of death." - Hannibal Barca, c. 218 B.C.
      "We can legislate until doomsday but that will not make men righteous." - George Albert Smith, A.D. 1949
      The Kingdom of Jerusalem: Chronicles of the Golden Cross - a Crusader Kings After Action Report

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      • #18
        Originally posted by reds4ever
        Everyones "family legend" has the Hapsburgs in there somewhere, I wouldn't read too much into it....;O)
        I don't. Now, if I were next in line for the throne of, say, Lichtenstein or someplace, that would be another matter.

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        • #19
          Yep, I am the lineage of kings gentlemen. Of the line of Ynglings.

          Eysteinn Aðilsson (550): King of Uppsala
          Yngvar hái Eysteinsson (570): King of Uppsala
          Braut Önundur Yngvarsson (600): King of Uppsala
          Ingjaldur illráði Önundarson (620): King of Uppsala
          Ólafur “trätäljare” Ingjaldsson (620): King of Uppsala
          Hálfdán “vitben” Ólafsson (680): King of Sóleyja
          Eysteinn Hálfdánarson (700): King of Vestfold
          Hálfdán “milde matsnåle” Eysteinsson (725): King of Vestfold
          Guðröður “jaktkonung” Hálfdánarson (750): King of Vestfold
          Hálfdán svarti Guðröðarson (770): King of Vestfold
          Haraldur hárfagri Hálfdánarson (820): King of Norway
          Sigurður hrís Haraldsson (890): King of Norway
          Hálfdán Sigurðsson (930): King of Norway
          Sigurður sýr Hálfdánarson (970): King of Norway
          Haraldur harðráði Sigurðsson (1047): King of Norway (killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066)
          Ólafur kyrri Haraldsson (1066): King of Norway
          Magnús berfættur Ólafsson (1090): King of Norway
          Þóra Magnúsdóttir 1100 - 1175 (daughter of Magnús that moved to Iceland)
          Jón Loftsson 1124 - 1197
          Sæmundur Jónsson 1154 - 1222
          Sólveig Sæmundardóttir 1200 - 1244
          Þuríður Sturludóttir 1228 - 1288
          Jón "korpur" Hrafnsson 1255
          Sveinn "langur" Jónsson 1280
          Jón "langur" Sveinsson 1330 - 1362
          Finnbogi "gamli" Jónsson 1360 - 1441
          Þórunn Finnbogadóttir 1410
          Finnbogi "Maríulausi" Jónsson 1440 - 1514
          Jón Finnbogason 1470 - 1546
          Erlendur Jónsson 1520
          Hjörleifur Erlendsson 1570 - 1626
          Þórdís Hjörleifsdóttir 1600
          Ólöf Eiríksdóttir 1630
          Einar Þorvarðsson 1668
          Pétur Einarsson 1715 - 1778
          Jón Pétursson 1764 - 1848
          Jósef Jónsson 1819
          Metúsalem Jósefsson 1858
          Björn Vigfús Metúsalemsson 1894 - 1953
          Halldór Björnsson 1930 - 2003
          Gauti Halldórsson 1963
          Kári Gautason 1989

          Then I am related to some of the famous vikings of yore. Snorri Sturluson, Egill Skallagrímsson, Eiríkur Rauði (Erik the red) and so on and so forth.

          But no one of any importance for the last 1000 years.
          When it all comes to it, life is nothing more than saltfish - Salka Valka

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          • #20
            anyone famous/infamous

            not yet

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            • #21
              ískallin: In Iceland, everyone's related to everyone.

              Zkribbler: About half of the people in my region are Habsburg offspring - from back in the 1800s, when Archduke John was busy, err..., travelling the region.

              I have no exceedingly famous ancestors, just a little known composer and capellmeister of the court and one even less known skiing pioneer. And, luckily not akin but just married into the family, a participant of the Nazi coup d'etat in Austria in 1934.
              "The world is too small in Vorarlberg". Austrian ex-vice-chancellor Hubert Gorbach in a letter to Alistar [sic] Darling, looking for a job...
              "Let me break this down for you, fresh from algebra II. A 95% chance to win 5 times means a (95*5) chance to win = 475% chance to win." Wiglaf, Court jester or hayseed, you judge.

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              • #22
                We're descended from Jamadagni. But that's not much - all Brahmins and Kshatryis can trace their ancestry to one of the Rishis or kingly lineages.

                Far more importantly, one of my ancestors was the first college graduate in our city (Indore).

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by ískallin
                  Yep, I am the lineage of kings gentlemen. Of the line of Ynglings.
                  Impressive, if true.
                  "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                  I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                  Middle East!

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by aneeshm
                    We're descended from Jamadagni. But that's not much - all Brahmins and Kshatryis can trace their ancestry to one of the Rishis or kingly lineages.

                    Far more importantly, one of my ancestors was the first college graduate in our city (Indore).
                    So it means you are inbred and genetically inferior?
                    Speaking of Erith:

                    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                    • #25
                      The farther you go back in time the higher the chance you're related with someone famous, that's why I wouldn't give a damn about anything pre-19th cent.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Provost Harrison


                        So it means you are inbred and genetically inferior?
                        No. There is enough genetic diversity among the respective caste populations to allow them to have no problems with inbreeding even if they were the only caste left. Couple that with the fact that a general upward movement has always existed among castes (groups moving up the caste hierarchy), and that the population of each caste is gigantic even if taken in isolation, and you have no problems of that sort whatsoever.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by aneeshm


                          and you have no problems of that sort whatsoever.
                          He typed with his 7 fingered hand....

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                          • #28
                            AFAIK, some central and eastern European peasant farmers. But I'm sure they were wildly famous and important central and eastern European peasant farmers.
                            "The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
                            "you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
                            "I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident

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                            • #29
                              aneeshm:

                              Speaking of Erith:

                              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                              • #30
                                My family has been fairly successful keeping out of the press the last couple hundred years, despite its enormous size.
                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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