Updated 18 September 2002, 10.55

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US family tree experts - or genealogists - have found out a distant relation called Henry Spencer makes them 17th cousins.

Everyone, even Royals, are counted in censuses

The genealogists were sifting through Victorian census records to put online when they came across the family link from the 15th century.

The Spencers are the family of William's mum Diana.

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The genealogists who work for Myfamily.com are launching a UK website this week, which will have online versions of the Victorian censuses from 1841 to 1891.

It will also have a version of the British 1901 census which was put online by the Public Records Office in earlier this year.

But that website had to be taken down because it had so many people trying to use it!

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