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Indeed, because the lower classes tended to die.
by tropo 10y ago
Indeed, because the lower classes tended to die.
- ptaipale 10y agoNot necessarily; just that classes mix and have always mixed (partly out of wedlock of course). When you go back, say, twelve generations, almost everyone has a few upper class ancestors among the 8190 (part of them are anyway overlapping duplicates). (FWIW, I have an ancestor 12 generations ago who was almost a nobleman, plundering Germany in 30 Years War and getting in return an estate that was tax-free for some generations, as long as the owner promised to send in a cavalryman to the Swedish king's service. But most of my ancestors were dirt-poor peasants like almost everyone was.)