# I'm My Own GrandPaw

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-grandpaw/625673>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-grandpaw/625673 "2012-06-19T19:20:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-grandpaw/625673/1 "2012-06-19T19:20:48Z")

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Well, grandmaw, as I am female 😃

Somehow in link surfing I ran across the [royal descents of famous people](http://humphrysfamilytree.com/famous.descents.html) page. As I am related to more than a dozen people named on the page, though some of the links to older royalty are pretty tenuous IMHO, I seem to be related to myself.😛

I remember discussions here about how few real ancestors we each actually have as we get interrelated back to one another the further back we end up going. [though I am personally amused at now being related to Ivan the Terrible. Maybe I’ll have to make a boyarina SCA persona]

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-grandpaw/625673/2 "2012-06-19T19:28:25Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Well, grandmaw, as I am female 😃
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> Somehow in link surfing I ran across the [royal descents of famous people](http://humphrysfamilytree.com/famous.descents.html) page. As I am related to more than a dozen people named on the page, though some of the links to older royalty are pretty tenuous IMHO, I seem to be related to myself.😛

I think it would be more disturbing if you _weren’t_ related to yourself. 😃

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-grandpaw/625673/3 "2012-06-19T19:31:46Z")

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> [@aruvqan](#):
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> I seem to be related to myself.😛

I can tell–you look alike!