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Related: About this forumDiscovered I'm related to King Louis XVI of France!
From my 23 and me test!
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Discovered I'm related to King Louis XVI of France! (Original Post)
bif
Jun 2025
OP
Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette did not say this. I am related to one of her cousins !!!!!!!
Trueblue1968
22 hrs ago
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JustAnotherGen
(38,017 posts)1. Welcome to the family
bucolic_frolic
(54,930 posts)2. Thanks for the 23 and me idea
From genealogy researchers that I looked at 20+ years ago (lineage charts), I'm related by marriage way back when to a physician in the court of French King Francis I. He was likely at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a summit with King Henry VIII of England.
Other ancestors include a Pilgrim sibling and a famous name back more than 1000 years, but I don't feel any different after learning these things. I feel like I didn't get the juice.
bluedigger
(17,431 posts)3. I wouldn't lose my head over it.
JustAnotherGen
(38,017 posts)4. Oh!
Trueblue1968
(19,229 posts)8. Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette did not say this. I am related to one of her cousins !!!!!!!
bif
(26,943 posts)6. I'm also related by marriage
To Frances Scott Key!
EYESORE 9001
(29,677 posts)7. I'm descended from Charlemagne
Along with roughly 1/3 of everyone of European descent. They did love em some procreation.
Seriously, I once followed a genealogical trail back to the first Christian kings of Ireland - the ones St. Patrick baptized.