| After watching the television program
"St. Patrick, The Irish Legend", I
turned to the American & European Family
Forest and searched for St. Patrick in
"Facts" "Contains" in the
Presidential section. There were three matches:
King Oilliol of Leinster (baptized by St. Patrick
in 460), King Cairthann Finn of Munster
(converted by St. Patrick), and King Ceretic the
Gwledig of Strathclyde (reproached by St.
Patrick). What I saw from their descendant
charts made me realize that everyone with any
European ancestry at all has ancestors who
actually knew St. Patrick.
A 40 generation descendant view of King
Oilliol of Leinster (with "Cousin
Smart" selected) fills in 7,518 boxes on the
chart, and has 196 red arrows (red arrows mean
that lines of King Oilliol's lines of descent
continue beyond 40 generation at that point).
A 40 generation descendant view of King
Cairthann Finn of Munster (with "Cousin
Smart" selected) fills in 9,908 boxes on the
chart, and has more than 251 red arrows. A 40
generation descendant view of King Ceretic the
Gwledig of Strathclyde (with "Cousin
Smart" selected) fills in 12,387 boxes on
the chart, and has 268 red arrows.
40 generations into the future from St.
Patrick's time reaches up to about the time of
the Mayflower. If twenty-six Mayflower families
were responsible for 30,000,000+ living
descendants today, how many living descendants
are there today from the hundreds of people in
the A&E Family Forest who lived at the time
of the Mayflower and who were descended from
these three kings who actually knew St. Patrick?
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