Good video, but bringing up the BridgeAnn d'Avignon as somehow proof of some illusion of presidency means he doesn't seem to dig too far into things.
For anyone interested, all US presidents (including Trump) except for Martin Van Buren, have King John of England as a common ancestor. But since the vast majority of Americans with any English ancestry are related to King John, this should not be revelatory for anyone. If we use the accepted generational average of 25 years, anyone born in 1800 has ~17 million ancestors in the year 1200 (2^24). Let's generously assume half of those ancestors are duplicates (sorry to inform you, we all have distant incest in our family trees), so we're left with ~8m supposed great-great-....-grandparents alive in the year 1200. Now consider the entire population of England was around 2 million at the time. What are the chances you're related to King John? If we go back a few generations and say only one 75-year-old great grandparent of the child born in 1800 was English in the lineage, that still leaves an extremely high probability of relation to anyone alive in England during that time.
Good video, but bringing up the BridgeAnn d'Avignon as somehow proof of some illusion of presidency means he doesn't seem to dig too far into things.
For anyone interested, all US presidents (including Trump) except for Martin Van Buren, have King John of England as a common ancestor. But since the vast majority of Americans with any English ancestry are related to King John, this should not be revelatory for anyone. If we use the accepted generational average of 25 years, anyone born in 1800 has ~17 million ancestors in the year 1200 (2^24). Let's generously assume half of those ancestors are duplicates (sorry to inform you, we all have distant incest in our family trees), so we're left with ~8m supposed great-great-....-grandparents alive in the year 1200. Now consider the entire population of England was around 2 million at the time. What are the chances you're related to King John? If we go back a few generations and say only one 75-year-old great grandparent of the child born in 1800 was English in the lineage, that still leaves an extremely high probability of relation to anyone alive in England during that time.