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Re: Power Gene?

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On 28/11/17 09:57, Ian Goddard wrote:

> 2.  The founder effect.  Early European migrants to N America are likely
> to have more descendants than later immigrants by virtue of there being
> more generations between then and now and so are overrepresented in the
> present population.  Such migration required capital and maybe
> religious/political incentives; these are more likely to have been
> higher status individuals at home and more likely to have had a royal
> descent - or at least have ancestors who claimed that, see 1.

I'm not sure it's true that the early immigrants had higher social 
status at home.  Rarely were they from a higher class than the yeomanry, 
and finding royal descents for them is a very hard task.  I think the 
reason the founder effect makes a different is that it concentrates so 
much research effort on a very few individuals, and in a reasonable 
number of cases this has proved fruitful.

There's a similar effect for presidents.  Far more people will be trying 
to research the ancestry of a US president than, say, your ancestry or 
mine.  You've said before you don't have a known royal line of descent. 
Do you think that would still be the case if a hundred other highly 
competent researchers spent several years researching your ancestry? 
Possibly it would not change anything, but I'd suggest it's quite likely 
one of these researchers might find something.

Richard

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