Talk:Medieval Lands

Erudite discussion of ancestors of people mentioned in Medieval Lands - and of long genealogies of prominent people in other parts of the World - is at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.genealogy.medieval/Dqci_SC0GH8 under the heading "Call to Action: Adam and Eve pedigrees".

Of particular value is the very long posting by Stewart Baldwin on 27 April 2016, which includes statements such as:
 * I am less confident about the documentation of the ancestry of the Scottish kings back to Fergus than I was at the time I wrote the Henry Project pages on them.
 * Using a strict criterion, if one demands a genealogy in which every individual in the chain appears in a well-documented historical context, then the European "winner" would undoubtedly be the Carolingian ancestor Arnulf, bishop of Metz (d. 640), or if you prefer, a tie between him and Pippin the Elder (or one generation later if you demand strictly contemporary evidence).
 * To my knowledge, if one excludes lines which are due either to deliberate fraud or gross imcompetence by a modern author, all other claims to trace the genealogy of a currently living person to an individual living prior to the year 500 involve either a large degree of conjecture (e.g., the "dotted-line" pedigrees so often seen in DFA attempts), or the use of what might be called "traditional" pedigrees.

-- Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:18, April 27, 2016 (UTC)