This is positively fascinating. According to geneology research and mathematics, the common ancestor of the entire world alive today lived not as long ago as one would think. Also, all people with European ancestors living today are probably decendants of royalty.
The article continues, saying that in one thousand years from now, people alive today will be ancestors either of no one or of the entire human race. “You can ask whether everyone in the Western world is descended from Charlemagne, and the answer is yes, we’re all descended from Charlemagne. But can you prove it? That’s the game of genealogy.”
I’m not saying that I’m believing everything the article says, but it is very interesting, and I’d like to read into it further. My geneology has been traced only as far back as the seventeenth century through my father and his Russian ancestors on his mother’s side.