A genealogist and evidently a mathematician by the name of Jack Lee puts forth the proposition @ http://www.oz.net/~lee/Genealogy/charlemagne.html that: "there is virtually no chance that anyone of European ancestry is not directly descended from Charlemagne." I think he puts forth a good case...as hard as it is to believe. I welcome any and all (esp. mathematical) challenges to this man's notion.
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