Burke's Peerage to Include Illegitimate Children

Burke's Peerage and Gentry is finally succumbing to the demands of the 21st century.

The guide, which lists the genealogy of every royal and aristocratic family in the Europe and the U.S., is to include illegitimate children for the first time. As part of a major shake-up, the book will also list offspring in order of when they are born, rather than males first, which has been tradition.

Over the next few months the records of one million upper class families will be carefully updated to bring them in line with the modern format.

You can read more in the Mail Online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196534/Illegitimate-place-Burkes-revolution-Bible-blue-blooded-takes-step-21st-century.html

Comments

[Dae Powell]

Inconceivable! I like the idea arranging offspring in birth order, however. I'm a descendant of an illegitimate child, meself. Not that it means anything, but it could make some parallel lineages more readily available for research.

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