Who were the parents of X?
The soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup does not have an official position on any lineage. Individual participants can and do have strong views on medieval family lines. Consider this a forum to share and air our views and the conclusions we’ve each drawn about these ancestries. We want a free flow of information that allows each reader to take responsibility for evaluating the information we share, pursuing the references cited therein if appropriate. While we all would like definite answers, the fact is that the surviving evidence from the medieval period is sometimes very sketchy, and, in some cases, the evidence is open to a number of incompatible interpretations. The temptation is to consider medieval lineages as verified because they’ve been around so long. In truth, some authors have made up connections or have made unwarranted assumptions about parentage in an attempt to tie families to royalty or nobility. For this reason, even long-accepted genealogies should not be taken as cor
