Family Heritage - Genealogy

If you can trace your ancestry back to the crowned heads of Europe, you can go way back, because royalty charted their pedigrees in order to create alliances. More people are royal descendants than most people imagine. These are not legitimate heirs. Think courtesans, concubines, and other secret dalliances. There are many cases of average people with royal blood.

If the records of the Church of Latter Day Saints are correct, many people can trace their ancestry all the way back to Adam and Eve.
 

If you're interested in history, it's good to explore some of your genealogy to understand the big picture of how all these family stories combine to create a nation. You come to understand that we're all a part of the history.
It would be fascinating to know the stories connected to all of your lines.
Start with you:
1 person
parents = 2 persons
grandparents = 4 persons
great grandparents = 8 persons
and on and on

The amount of people you descend from increases the further you go back. Since there were fewer people alive in past times, your chances of being related to them go up. It used to be said that we were all 7th cousins. It's probably a higher number now that there are more people in the world.
 
I'm not sure how interesting my ancestors were - probably a lot more interesting than my parents. My mother intrigued me a little. In Scotland it was very common to give children their mother's maiden name as a middle name. This wasn't the case with my mother but who said that her middle name was her true ancestry. She also said that she was descended from minor aristocracy. My sister who compiled some of the family tree, thought that she was just a bit 'gaga', but this was something that mother had always insisted, but never elaborated on. A case of 'naughty' goings on??
 
I have a 23 and me kit that I got for Christmas. I need to swab it or spit in a tube or whatever it is and mail it in. I don’t really care what I am, unless I am 100% American Indian, but that’s not going to happen.
 
I've done 123andMe and Ancestry.com, both were given to me as gifts. Both confirmed UK-Irish and Scandinavian in approximately the same percentages. They disagreed about my German ancestors 4% vs 36%. 123andMe has a much smaller member base with which to compare while Ancestry.com lumps a lot of folks into a NW European category that muddies up their result.

My Paternal Grandparents sprang from a pioneer LDS heritage (I am not LDS) so a great deal of research has already been done for me. On the LDS Family Search I too can find links back to Adam on my Family Tree. It's entertaining but not relevant.
 
One of my cousins on my Dad's side of the family sent me all the ancestry results from the 1500's. My Husbands brother did their ancestry as far back as he could go. I just wish someone would do my Mothers side of the family. I loved reading all the ancestry results.
 
gennie said:
Peppermint, what's not to believe? We all have relatives from the 1800s unless we hatched from an egg.
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I still don't care....I don't believe my daughter had to spend one hundred dollars on who the heck were my ancesters….I had many already....I don't need anymore....
Everyone has an opinion....Maybe I was hatched from an egg....
 
One of our family historians produced a DVD about our family history and it was distributed at one of our reunions. I started watching it and got distracted...never got back to it. Recently a cousin said their was a part two, which he gave me. Years before the DVD, we were told at a family reunion that someone had traced us back to a German slave trader ancestor. I find it interesting that when I had my DNA test, Germany didn't come up but small percentages from the Iberian peninsula, Great Britain, Ireland, Finland/Russia, Native American and south Asia (India strongly highlighted) were detected along with my majority African DNA. My maternal grandmother had told me we have Indian (from India) and Hispanic roots and a family historian's research confirmed that we have German and Native American blood as well.
 

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