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[Joe Chi Minh]

medieval kings and magnates, not to speak of the lesser barons, put themsleves about a bit; not to speak of their toff descendants in the first half of the last century.

So not surprisingly, professional genealogists estimate that there would be few people who were not descended from them. I believe there are millions, if not tens of millions of African Americans directly descended from William the Conqueror. The difficulty for most people is finding records going back far enough; assuming they were all recorded.