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Show Pedigree Fakers Delude Thousands Scientist Says No Real Norman Blood Exists. London. Norman blood exists only In the handiwork of "pedigree fakers." said Lord Raglan, head of the anthropological anthro-pological section of the British Association Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Science, Sci-ence, nt the society's meeting at Lie-cester. Lie-cester. Family trees purporting t'1 reach back to the Norman conquest nre the product of Just another racket, Ixinl Raglan said. The British scientist might have been talking to American suckers who come over every year to pay listfulls of dollars In order to get their ancestry an-cestry traced back to some duke or earl. Instead he was talking "turkey" "tur-key" to some of the oldest families In England. He was the most outspoken speaker before 2.il delegates gathered to discuss dis-cuss the 13 brain lies of science. "In this country of the many families fami-lies whose 'traditions' talie them hack to the time of the Norman conquest. It can be said without fear of contradiction contra-diction that not one of these Is a gen nine tradition." the peer said. "All of them nre the work of pedigree fakers who hne nourished from very early times mid there Is not a word of truth In them. "No English family can trace Its descent to the Saxons nud though there are n few families with n genu Ine Norman descent, this In no case goes as far back ns the Eleventh ecu tury." Iird Haglan mentioned some names. Sir Hereward Wake, thirteenth baronet, baro-net, comes from a family claiming descent de-scent from the famous Saxon hero, Hereward the Wake, famous for his resistance to William the Conqueror. Lord Raglan declared that Sir Hereward Here-ward was never called the Wake, that lie was probably a mythological character char-acter anyhow, nnd that no member of the Wake family was christened Hereward Here-ward until ls"l. He asserted that Robin Hood even should be left to the story books. Lord Raglan added that the location of Sherwood forest Is uncertain, that a number of counties claim Rubin Hood, nnd that the legends describe him as everything from an earl to a churl. |