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My gunslinging ancestor
Ancestry magazine has an article on uses of aliases by ancestors, and my gunslinging judge great-grandfather got a prominent mention. My online tale of him is here. Outlaw Nat Hickman, who became Judge Charles Hardy of Arizona Territory.
UPDATE: same issue has an article on DNA and all that. Studies have shown that over 16 million people have Genghis Kahn's DNA. About 80% of England has Edward III's DNA. I read somewhere that DNA work shows we have twice as many female ancestors as male ones. Throughout history, men took chances. The unsuccessful ones often died. The successful ones averaged two women apiece.
It also has an article on "pedigree collapse." You'd expect a person to have four grandparents, eight great grandparents, etc.. But if cousins marry, at some point their ancestry overlaps and they have common ancestors, so the total count drops. They list one recent king who, due to intermarriage of the royalty, had only half the theoretic number of great great grandparents.
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I got Jesse and Frank James covered,FWB, and there is some confusion about Sam Bass, don't know if he was related or just a close family friend. It has been told both ways. There is no doubt he used to swap horses on his runs at some of my relatives' outside Decatur, Tx.
My Cherokee and Chickasaw blood goes back before the Trail of Tears, not all of which were peace loving once moved to Oklahoma, can you blame them?
If what the studies about STD's is accurate, "One has sex with everyone his partner has ever had sex with", my family has enjoyed the entire world.
I certainly did my part to not let the family down.
My German ancestry is also rather colored with scoundrels.
Whereas, I, on the other hand, am all sugar and sunshine, you know, sweetness and light. :)
My own ancestral investigations have failed to turn up any blacksheep in this country. At this point, my worst is my 22XGGfather King John Lackland of England, yeah that guy in the Robin Hood legends. Otherwise, my family in the US made the US. 2nd Cousin George was the 1st president. 2nd Cousin Abe the 16th. 1st Cousin Meriwether crossed the country. 4th Cousin Joseph rebirthed a "religion". 4th Cousin Johnny planted apple trees. 10xGGMa Anne got herself thrown out of Massachusetts Bay Colony and had to move to RI because she held religious services in her home.
I had hoped for Jesse James but I had to settle for a bunch of good guys.