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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2586704, member: 405"] That's pretty cool. He was the first true king of England. My family did one of those DNA tests over the holidays. The coolest things that I found in mine were than I had a West African ancester in the late 1600s or early 1700s (so, I'm 1% black, which I think is very cool). Probably a female slave, I'm guessing, gave birth to one of my ancestors. The other cool surprise, which I'm kind of skeptical about, is that they said I shared a common ancester with Luke, the author of one of the Gospels. I guess it's a relatively rare marker (1 in 32,000, or something like that). But I wonder how they got a DNA sample for Luke. Seems hard to believe, but I suppose it's possible. Various abbeys and monateries of the church have bones and other religious relics for lots of ancient historical figures going back at least to the time of Emperor Constantine. I guess you never know... [/QUOTE]