Charlemagne connection?

Question:I just learned from another answer posting that I am related to Ted Pack! I too have a line going back to Charlemagne. But we may have a closer relationship than that because my line also has a number of links that are questionable - though my line spelled it "questionable" vice Ted's line "questioanable", though that is probably just surname mangling we see so often.

Wondering if any other there are any other kinfolk out there with a semi-pseudo-line back to Charlemagne?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I just learned from another answer posting that I am related to Ted Pack! I too have a line going back to Charlemagne. But we may have a closer relationship than that because my line also has a number of links that are questionable - though my line spelled it "questionable" vice Ted's line "questioanable", though that is probably just surname mangling we see so often.

Wondering if any other there are any other kinfolk out there with a semi-pseudo-line back to Charlemagne?

I've heard it was 85% of the people with English, German, BeNeLux, French, Swiss or N. Italian ancestors.

I've also heard that some brilliant, witty, devilishly handsome people's fingers are slower than their thoughts, and they don't always click on "Check Spelling" like they should.

You're a top-notch answerer here, so you must be gracious, witty, intelligent and devilishly handsome, like the rest of us, but you've added meticulous to your list of assets. I'm jealous!

There's a common joke that "everybody's a descendant of Charlemagne." Some math...when you go back 1000 years, which is around 300 generations, that's 2^300 = more people that have every lived on this earth. Point is, when you step back that far into genealogy, almost everybody can trace their heritage back to anybody who had a child during that period, and definitely if you are of similar ethnic background. So while not everybody is a descendant of Charlemagne, almost everybody from Western Europe is probably his descendant.

I descend from Charlamagne as well.

To the person that said that there are 300 generations in 1000 years, it is more like 30. If a family has a new generation about every 20-30 years, on average, then that is 3-5 new generations in a given family every 100 years. Multiply that by 10 and you are looking at 30-50 generations. Example: My great-grandmother was born in 1889, my grandmother in 1919, my mother in 1945, me in 1969, my daughter in 1994. In a 105 year time span, that is 5 generations in my family.

William the Conqueror, born about 1032 (almost 1000 years ago) is my 31st great-grandfather. Not my 300th great-grandfather. Between him and me is about 33 generations. Not 300.