[El Gato]

They go back 940 years some of them, most are since 1066.

Hmm, 1066 (William the Conqueror and all that) is 940 years ago. But the British Royals are so intermixed with royals from all over Europe, they are hardly British at all, at least nothing like this guy.

Of course since mitochondrial DNA comes from the mother only, this guys N-great grandmother could have been raped by one of those Normans, or earlier by raiding Vikings. What color is his hair?

[El Gato]

since mitochondrial DNA comes from the mother only,

Or maybe not. Note that at least the second article excerpted in post 33 post dates this article. Wonder if the analysis has been redone in the light of the more recent information?

[Tom D.]

I am a little puzzled why a lot more folks in town were not kin to this guy. Each of us has 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, etc. If you go back 34 generations 640 years if you assume 20 years = 1 generation) we have more ancestors in that generation (roughly 8.6 billion) than there are people in the world today and considerably more than there were the. Now I know that there is considerable overlap, but even allowing for that, if you go back 10,000 years, it would seem likely that there a lot of folks walking around today who would be common descendants from this 10,000 year old woman.

I guess that I may be missing something, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out what it is.