On my father's side we can go back to King Richard.
Here in America I am 13th generation born on American soil.
Cities named after us and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
On mother's side grandfather & grandmother came independently from Sweden just before World War 1
The genealogy guru from my father's side claims to have traced all the way back to Alfred The Great, but considering human nature, I consider anything like that pretty suspect without DNA.
Even if two freight trains collided and great great grandpa fell out of a hobo's azz, it really has nothing to do with who WE are.
