"The further you go down the family tree, the more people are descended from someone of historical significance. Of course, it can't be proved, or indeed disproved."
That's why science {and common} kick in to make people "STFU, n00b" about it.
Technicaly, I'm related to every single human on the globe. That means, in some ridiculously removed and indirect way, I'm decended from almost everyone.
Direct ancestry is relativly easy to prove. Historical documents exist for a good few hundred years. As for being impossible to disprove... if the records and living knowledge don't match up with a claim, then just like a scientific theory, the claim will be seen to be false and ignored.
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