It's tough being a royal
An impetus behind these posts is an accidental discovery I made while randomly shuffling through the family tree developed by our daughter. As I've mentioned in the past my grandmother's great grandmother, Orpha Morse, is a rich source of ancestors with connection to history. As an aside, I've no idea how to properly express this relationship, but I saw a reference a couple of weeks ago to someone's 8th great grandmother, which seemed to use the generational numbering associated with cousins. If I'm correct about that then Orpha would be my third great grandmother, or something like that. This stuff can be so confusing. But I started roaming through Orpha's portion of the tree and found all sorts of connections to British peerage and eventually to Elizabeth Woodville, whose second husband, Edward IV, king of England, was of the York family, and their symbol was the white rose. That would have meant that I was related to royalty, a situation that may not be as un