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A question about history - 11/27/2011 5:48:45 PM

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Exactly where are the descendents from the founding Fathers of this country ? Where also are the descendents of Ceasar(s), Marx, Hitler, or Abe Linclon for that matter ?

Where are all these people ? Have the families just died out ? (that may explain a few things but that's not the point right now).

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RE: A question about history - 11/27/2011 5:53:32 PM

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Washington 8000, Lincoln none

If youre really interested "living descendents of _______" is a good start.

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RE: A question about history - 11/27/2011 5:58:07 PM

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What was wrong with Lincoln, was he Gay or something ?

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RE: A question about history - 11/27/2011 6:22:50 PM

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4 generations of Lincolns but the last apparently died in 1985.

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RE: A question about history - 11/27/2011 6:52:13 PM

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Caesar had one legitment offspring, his daughter Julia who was married to Pompey.
She died in childbirth, the child died after a
few days. His other offspring was his son with
Cleopatra who he never officially acknowledged. The boy was killed shortly after
his mothers suicide. The last descendent of Julius's nephew and adopted son Augustus was
Nero who did with no living offspring.
Caesar could have had numerous bastards.
This was all 2000 years ago and because of
something called genetic drift we can't trace
or scientifically prove modern a modern day
person is descended from someone that long
ago. The Middle Ages is about how far back we
can go. There is something called pedigree collapse the farther back you go the more likely
you will find comman ancestors. So anyone of
European descent could likely be a descendent of if not Jules one of his cousins.
George Washington had no children but Thomas Jefferson has many descendants
from both sides of the blanket.
Lincoln had four sons only his eldest lived
to have children. The last of the direct line
died in the last thirty years.
There was a theory that Hitler had a bastard
son born in 1918 by a French woman.
A railway worker with nine children.
Most serious scholars disputed this and
a few years ago a journalist using DNA
from surviving Hitler family members and
offspring of the Frenchman proved he was
not Hitlers son.
Madison and Jackson had no children but
Adams and both Roosevelts have several
descendants.

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RE: A question about history - 11/27/2011 6:54:41 PM

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I misspelled common.

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RE: A question about history - 11/27/2011 7:03:30 PM

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Reese Witherspoon did a video about the signers of the Declaration. Evidently she's a direct descendant of John Witherspoon, who was one of the signers.

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