Dude, Ancestry.com is so cool

[gwynhefar]

Ok, I am officially impressed.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am descended from the *first* mayor of London. Yes, that London. Yes, I really mean the first. Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonstone held the office from 1189 until he died in 1212.

Oh, and I can also trace ancestors back through the Anglo-Norman aristocracy to pre-1066 Normandy.

I am so cool.

Edit: Oh, and dude, I totally got some Vikings in there too: Ailwin Leftansson, and his father Leofstan Orgarsson, and his father Orgar Leofstansson, and his father Leofstan Ailwinsson and so on (they really liked to reuse names, clearly). That line goes all the way back to the Warwicks of Warwickshire in the 900s.

Comments

[callwolf.livejournal.com]

That's so neat! Man, I wihs my name wasn't so familiar. We have only been able to trace back as far as the 1740s when two men with the same name left the same town. Ugh.

[harkalark.livejournal.com]

Damn, give the girl a database, and she can run forever... :)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Oh I got a lot farther than that :) Tell you later *g*