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Originally Posted by SoCalGirl
How do you prove you're a decendant of an illigetimate child? The child would had to have been ligitimatized (?) at some point, right?
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My ancestors were legitimized when they were in their 20s when their father married their mother - Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Swynford. I believe the ancestor just had to have been born illegitimate - I'm not sure, though because I haven't looked to closely into it. I still have one generation to prove in the entire line.