The Vaughan lineage traces back from an reputable antiquary (historical genealogist) along a well researched family in Marioneth, Wales, to the great-grandfather of the famed king (=Brenin) of Wales, [28] Bleddyn. The ancestry of the king’s mother continues on back into antiquity.
[27] Cadwgan, Earl of Nannau, had several mistresses and many illegitimate children. A certain Weaver descendant has done extensive research on the ancestry taking it a further 21 generations from [27] Cadwgan to King Cunedda (Kenneth, b. abt 400), making it available on the web. David Nash Ford has published research on the even earlier king’s lineage eleven generations on back to the legendary gods of the Welsh people: Beli Mawr (the great, b. around AD 1) and his son Afallach.
The astute reader will see that it takes 30 or so generations on the male lineage to span a thousand years. It also may be argued that civilization and writing came into use no earlier than seven thousand years ago so that at least 21 hundred generations would have to be recorded. Many early pedigrees must reject normal demographic expectations so that tracing a pedigree back to the dawn of humankind (=Heb. ‘Adam) is hardly possible.
Notice that people in the past constructed altars to their ancestors, cf. lineage 642. Worship of ancestors, worship of saints, worship of gods, are all related to the respect for greater powers in the unseen world that may be called on to interfere in the making of biography and history. Conjectures become stories and stories become legends and legends become myths. Some are true in many ways, some are true in a few respects, most are patently false.
The use of the symbol for a documented event has here been placed on birth events whose date and place are assumed from the flow of local history as preserved orally at first and only later recorded in the official annals of states and localities.
