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chauncy
Lv 7
chauncy asked in Arts & HumanitiesGenealogy · 6 years ago

Genealogy website?

I am trying to remember the address of a website I visited a few years ago. It is the website of a professor in Ireland who makes many extraordinary claims about the connectedness of the human race. For example, he says things like "Everyone in Britain is descended from Alfred the Great" or "Everyone in Europe is descended from Hammurabi." (I have made these up; I don't remember the exact claims he made.) He backs up his claims with mathematical analysis.

Update:

To Maxi and any other answerers: Please read my question carefully, and don't bother answering unless you think you know the website I am referring to. Mathematical analysis has a lot to do with genealogy, and I said that the professor was in Ireland, not that his claims were about Irish genealogy.

Update 2:

I just found it.

http://humphrysfamilytree.com/

Have a look. This man may be mistaken but he is not a nutcase, and the mathematical relevance is obvious.

Thanks to anyone else who was thinking of answering.

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  • blackgrumpycat
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    There is an article here:

    http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/50523412948/w...

    and here:

    http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/07...

    And a discussion on here:

    http://www.geni.com/discussions/104261

    It is Charlemagne that we are supposedly related to!

  • Maxi
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Coming up with claims and mathematical analysis is zero to do with genealogy, so highly unlikely it was a genealogy website as that is factual research of written records in Ireland/UK of recent history not predictions of history/anthropology over 1000 yrs ago.

    I have worked in the education sector and in Ireland for an number of years, can't say I have come across such a nutty professor and reality is I would have...there are some nut cases here like anywhere else in the world but sorry can't help

    Add: Then why post in genealogy? Genealogy has ZERO to do with Maths

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