3rd March 2013, 08:55 AM
Dinosaur Wrote:Covered on the programme, rather briefly so if you blinked you missed it, apparently lots of the line they were following had a bad attack of spinster daughters during the 19th century which severely trimmed the options -
But that would only make a difference if the 'spinster daughters' provided a significant proportion of all of the descendants of Elizabeth of York...and to prove that they would have to have researched every branch of the family to show that was the case. I just cant imagine that an infinite number of monkeys researching every family line would have been able to achieve that result in the time available. Don't get me wrong I am not doubting the result, but it does seem they are dressing up a lack of applied research by throw-away statements. The implication is that any research along these lines does not need to apply systematic methodology if the smallest iota of data points to the anticipated/desired result. That sounds like bad news for archaeology...
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