I'm not sure what the basis of the lawsuit of the Knight Templar descendants v. The Vatican is, but it did get me to thinking: how many people can actually document a line (any line) of descent for 700 years? I know I can. And, of course, my family can because of my research. However, in a numbers' game, how many people across the earth can document any given line back 700 years? 1%? 5%? I'm guessing it's not a very big number. About half of all Americans have some colonial ancestry. Of those, probably half again have traceable medieval ancestry. So, that's 25% of 300 million or 75 million people. How many can actually do the hard work of proving approximately 30 generations in succession? That's probably a whole lot less. Yet some people must have done it in Europe to make such a claim. Interesting.