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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1750s from Germany.  I am proud of my Teutonic heritage.  [/quote]
Whatever for?[/quote]

Probably for the same reasons that others are proud of their heritage. [/quote]

No one should be proud of their heritage. It is just a question of which set of vaginas your ancestors popped out of. It doesn’t make you any better or worse. It is what you do in his life that counts.

Also, even if you are a descendant of Charlemagne, you probably share zero genes with him. A child will inherit all of a segment of a gene from an ancestor, and in other cases, the child will inherit none. In some cases, they will inherit half or a portion of the DNA from an ancestor. In reality, the DNA segments are very seldom divided exactly in half, but all we can deal with are averages when discussing how much DNA you “should” receive from an ancestor, based on where they are in your tree.
Therefore, any one ancestor’s DNA is probably not be detectible at 5, 6 or 7 generations, because it was lost in the generations between them and you.[/quote]

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