Finding Your Royal Roots | Using Geni.com

[@UsefulCharts]

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[@cerealrakist7360]

William the conqueror is my 28th great grandfather. ❤interesting I see he is your 27th.

[@SoloresGAMING]

Hello my fellow distant cousins.

[@castiron2844]

Hey

[@goldenflower8899]

Hey

[@drewtechnoligies3582]

How is life

[@SoloresGAMING]

Life is alright

[@dianajones9304]

🙋

[@theannouncer5538]

Family trees are interesting. I mean if you go far enough up the tree, you’ll eventually find things like strange sea creatures

[@M-CH_]

Well, you can definitely find fairies. There are three famous historical European families said to descend from fairies: firstly the Lusignans (of the Melusine fame), secondly the Spanish houses originating from the lords of Viscaya (said to be descended from Jaun Zuria, whose mother/father was an otherworldly creature according to some versions of the legend) - so houses de Haro, and possibly de Mendoza and others, and thirdly - descendants of Eadric the Wild and his fairy wife. I'm not counting the Luxembourgs, as their fairy legend is an obvious ripoff of the Lusignan one. Prince William will be the first European monarch with a claim to all three lineages.

[@personaronthegreat1399]

Well, if you’re lucky like me, you have a grandad that has already done about 50 years of tracing your family history all the way back to the 6th century (on fathers fathers fathers father etc) and about 13th century in detail and then just so happens to upload it on to a hard drive only a week before his own death! I love my grandad for being such a legend in this way

[@theredstonesword984]

@@personaronthegreat1399, did he find any royalty in your and his ancestry?

[@gamerdio2503]

@red x17 Which it almost certainly is, thanks to its overwhelming evidence.

[@gamerdio2503]

@LazyTitan All living things are related. It's a scientific fact that has been proven with multitudes of evidence.

[@matthewbaker8835]

We are both Matthew Baker, very interesting.

[@Jellygamer0]

doppelgänger?

[@ssssSTopmotion]

Coincidence?

[@ssssSTopmotion]

I think not

[@joshuatraffanstedt2695]

A Quaker Matthew Baker, the Anglo Saxon Undertaker?

[@ramonanaya6236]

😆

[@oshun459]

Yuck, found out my wife and I are both related to "Bacteria the 1st", might divorce now

[@y7va]

underrated af

[@Met_August]

I'm related to Bacteria the III

[@willyiscool5402]

Oshun bro as long as ur not closely related than that’s K

[@Met_August]

@@caiawlodarski5339 whos david

[@candyneige6609]

Actually, Bacteria the 1st is not a royal, but rather an alternative name to LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor).

[@yazzeen7609]

what if your entire bloodline has just been peasants

[@UsefulCharts]

See my previous video.

[@luizfilipecouto1030]

Almost everyone in Earth descends from King Charlamagne

[@ZestySea]

you won't be just peasants - sooner or later, there'll be people who aren't peasants

[@prkp7248]

That mean that your ancesors were not bandits who mugged everyone because they have some weird, gold hat on head and gold stick and appld in hand lol

[@starventure]

Yazzeen If your whole ancestry somehow came from people who were of zero noble descent including during the Middle Ages...you would be extraordinarily rare! The tree would stop in the 1500s most likely, and none of the surnames would qualify as a known nobility surname. A unicorn event.

[@radking9854]

When you find out that your whole family have been peasents and their closest title relating to royalty is "Soldier of the danish royal army"

[@richardshelley143]

Guessing this was Napoleonic War era?

[@TykusBalrog]

@@richardshelley143 what makes you say that?

[@richardshelley143]

You did not read the "guessing" at the start of my comment? That in addition to having a generation where a forefather and a brother of his having been conscripted into the Danish Army during the era of the War of Third and Fourth Coalitions

[@TykusBalrog]

@@richardshelley143 there's no need to be snarky, i was just asking. Am i understanding you correctly that you have ancestors who fought in the Napoleonic Wars? Is that what you're saying?

[@spottiercamp8183]

As a danish person yes that’s also the closest thing I found

[@hugogomez9228]

Would be awkward to find your fathers second family here..

[@chomama1628]

Well you could say they like the same thing! Lol

[@mymomisjudgedredd1288]

Lol

[@kristengann6864]

I'm scared this might eventually happen to me my dad cheated on my mom constantly im surprised it hasn't happened already.

[@valeriebustos910]

My 3x great grandpa abandoned his first wife and later married my 3x great grandma and I found his descendants from his first marriage on this site under him 🙃

[@marthahawkinson-michau9611]

One of my grandfathers had married and divorced several women, and I’m not even sure how many. My grandmother was neither his first nor his last wife. One of my great grandfathers had a first wife before he met my great grandmother. We still don’t know if he had children with his first wife.

[@kanjuura8722]

Finding royalty in my family was somewhat easy, my great grandmother was part of a family that was minor Scottish nobility, going up from there was rather easy, finding royals from a huge multitude of countries. My church is a huge supporter of genealogy, which made things easy with the resources they have.

[@niccolorichter1488]

who is your first monarch on the list ?

[@kingmusikjahn9374]

@@niccolorichter1488 my great grand mother is scottish her surname is Macnab

[@VivaRonnieJamesDio]

Haha big claim...no response. I call b.s.

[@manger_22]

@@VivaRonnieJamesDio hello im the paper

[@lindabrandse8060]

Are you a Latter-Day Saint?

[@killerOfMoons]

I might not be related to European royalty but, I am related to a few Native American chiefs.

[@carboncrafter793]

that sucks

[@killerOfMoons]

@@carboncrafter793 not really or at all.

[@carboncrafter793]

@@killerOfMoons true

[@killerOfMoons]

ghstlyart are your ancestors Ojibwe or Lakota? Then if not probably no.

[@federicovolpe3389]

Moon Seal Wow that’s cool

[@pepperVenge]

I have a relative who 20 years ago did massive research into the descendants of my family. He printed all his findings in a book that sits on my shelf. In it, its revealed that I'm related to.. a lot of people, including John Adams and his son John Q. Adams. I am also related to Princes Diana, and naturally to her 2 sons as well. I also discovered fascinating facts such as a distant relative of mine who had my name in the 14th century and was appointed Sheriff of Wessex by King Edward II. I'm thankful I don't have to do all this research, but its fascinating to find out who you come from.

[@kristoffersjboden5313]

Well, I was surprised to find out I was closely related to Quisling.

[@crazy_lol3111]

pepperVenge which means you have double royal descendance, get your claim ready

[@arandomyorkshireman9678]

Cool. I have ancestors who were sherrifs of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire during The reign of Edward iii

[@mystii8134]

pepperVenge All I know is that my family has a town that’s named after them (our last name) in England. I have never been there, I don’t know if I want to either it’s not the nicest from photos I’ve seen. I don’t really know any of my ancestors and I have no family heirlooms. I just really want to know my ancestry. You’re so lucky!

[@Introvertsan]

Wow, you are so lucky that you have a relative who did all of that

[@seandorval5579]

The coolest part is finding common ancestors with my adopted daughter. Family is far more than a DNA connection it's also the people you choose and who choose you. It is a circle that took 10 to 15 generations to complete. Some things feel like they were meant to be!

[@Ezaks_energy_x]

Now thats cool ❤

[@Sophisticate99]

“How common is Mongolian ancestry among Russians” is a Quora question. An answer to that down the thread is very interesting, claiming that many Russian royals are descendants of Mongols or Tatars. Would you like to shed some light on this...?

[@billymartin2220]

To my knowledge, I know that some russian princes and grand dukes married Tatar-mongol royalty. When the Russians conquered the tatar steppe, if their royalty converted to orthodox Christianity and took russian names, they were accepted into the court. One example of th e would be the noble house of yusupov, who were once the royal house if the Nogai horde

[@IssamHalabi]

And prior to that, the steppe hordes partially subjugated Russia for a long time.

[@jimmy2055]

Russian royalty are not Mongolian

[@billymartin2220]

@@jimmy2055 I never said they were, I said that a few of them intermixed.

[@jimmy2055]

billy martin a few of whom? Russian royals are European

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

Can you trace my lineage back into the ocean for me please

[@SimonDoer]

Pretty sure a pregnant woman, does not qualify as the ocean.

[@Rachel-zf2wm]

Alex Mallinson Cambrian Explosian

[@lonepilgrim83]

He does have an Evolution from Bacteria to Humans video...

[@JohnSmith-ho8yb]

a nobleman I like how you assume that he’s 11/12. Kinda exposed urself there

[@mrpellagra2730]

@barb rarick lol

[@virginiagill5902]

THANK YOU! Over the past year I’ve watched a great many of your videos and thoroughly enjoyed them. Watching this pair was also interesting but not something I thought applied to me. After all my family tree already stretched back 500 years without and royal connections. Then I started looking at ancestors I never had before, I’d always assumed my great-aunt would have noted anything of interest but apparently once she met the qualifications of the DAR she just stopped looking. I wondered if there were other stories, things I could write down for my nieces and nephews. I’m still in awe of the amazing troves of information available online these days! Having watched this pair of videos had me prepared for the moment I landed on a gateway ancestor. Having watched all the other videos gave me a better understanding of the flow of history that moved my ancestors from place to place. What I have to pass on now isn’t a list of names with no meaning, thanks to your videos it’s a picture of my family’s place in the world. I love that! However I now have a mental wishlist for future charts😂

[@fiaflora9585]

Hi distant cousins! How are you all doing?

[@jaimeportillo9275]

Fia Flora good

[@ShamimKhan-gj8ug]

I feel so good

[@dnm3732]

Great fellow descendant of Noah

[@muichirotokito4333]

I love you distant cousin

[@crazyinsanely5595]

Good we doing good.

[@MousesInHouses]

Fascinating stuff. I've managed to get back a hundred years or so pre-Conquest on one branch (we then married 'in' to one of William the Conqueror's party, and kept our 'castle'!) and to Thomas Cranmer on another. Lots of Sirs, Barons, Lords, Ladies, and an Earl Marshall, but yet to find a direct link to royalty. All this for a family that has proudly described itself as 'working class' for a good six generations now.

[@MousesInHouses]

More digging and a month on, another branch goes directly back to the Anglo-Saxon kings via Scotland!

[@gm2407]

Scotland should have a lot of good links for a lot of people as the Stewarts and Brus families had a lot of children in many generations outside the main line.

[@zoesouth7287]

@@gm2407 There are definitely a few in there - one day I'll have time to spend on it properly.

[@luminousmoon86]

This intrigued me so much, so I decided to try it out. I tried William the Conqueror too, and entered all the genealogy info I had, based on some previous work. That geni site is great, because it actually helped me trace my ancestors back farther than I had originally managed, by way of merging profiles with people who had done a bit more research than I. Anyways, it turns out William the Conqueror is my 27th great grandfather, same as you. Slightly different path, but really neat.

[@oceanViews64]

William the conqueror is my 26th great grandfather😊

[@OleOlson]

That's a pretty powerful tool. I actually started my research on Geni, but didn't want to pay for a subscription, so moved onto FamilySearch and went as far as I could (back to royalty). Now I have a $1 3-month trial on Ancestry and am trying to flesh out the documentation. A person could literally spend years of their life doing this, so I like how Geni (and Wikitree) are trying to tie it all together.

[@themixedmaster]

I can finally see if I’m related to Danny DeVito!!!!!

[@tashmay]

well, are you?

[@johnidchannel6877]

@@tashmay Of course he is.

[@eldelostacos9980]

And... How did it went?

[@kets4443]

@@tashmay of course because everyone is related in some way or another. The better question would be what their MRCA is or how distant the relation is.

[@newjerseylion4804]

Correction it’s very hard for a non Caucasian person to trace family roots.

[@EmpireTVDragon]

Yeah, I cannot find any information about relation to loyalty. Since my mother's surname is from a Samurai Clan in Kagoshima (Osako), I thought I should be a least related to Shimazu Tadahisa the founder of the Satsma Clan. But I cannot kind any information about it. I think my Chinese father is not closely related to any noble in China. They say the surname (Siu) is someone who work for the emperor of China. Fortunately, my girlfriend is Caucasian. She is 3/4 Slavic Russian adn 1/4 Caucasian. I could ask her more about her family. I hope she is related to the Romanov thus the Charlemagne. It will be cool to be at least a King Consort.

[@user-cw5nv6eq1v]

lets not forget about our Jewish friends, who (along with maybe not having any European Noble roots to begin with) also had their records destroyed by the Nazis.

[@EmpireTVDragon]

OK, I just found out that my Grandmother's Grandfather is a Baron and he owned lands and peasents works for him. The nobility system in Japan is different. But that means I am a Great Great Grandson of a Noble.

[@kalebsok2947]

EmpireTV(Dragon) do you still use Twitter?

[@alicedubois1348]

It is also difficult for a person who has non idea who their biological parent is.

[@Weesperbuurt]

Appreciate your ordered, articulate and logical explanations

[@tommoncrieff1154]

I'm loving 'How am I connected to Obama?' followed by 'How is Obama connected to Trump?' absolutely NOT followed by 'So how am I connected to Trump?'

[@hmpz36911]

Why not the last one?

[@IvanIvanov-gb5zx]

its kinda useless if you are from eastern europe(bulgaria) and you know only to your grandfathers grandfather

[@naprimjer6593]

Yea same for me

[@boilerforsale3941]

RIP

[@Alkuf100]

in all of europe there were written records of birth and death. Thats all you need, there probably wont be any of it on the internet but you could surely find out a lot if you went to archives of every town mentioned

[@stojankovacic1524]

Or Bosnia!

[@futurequagmire6199]

Im ukrainian bro I feel you lol , we could be related to royalty but it's probably ottoman or Russian royalty given our countries placements

[@Deusdekis]

Very interesting but it works only if we do not consider that there could be children born from unknown infedilities

[@erinrising2799]

Yeah, my husband's Grandmother doesn't know who her father was. Never-mind trying to trace his family to 500 years ago, he can't even trace it back to 100 years ago

[@starventure]

Erin Rising DNA test. If she is of older American stock it should not be tough to figure out the sibling group her father was from at the very least. Nowadays it’s a piece of cake.

[@justinian-the-great]

Making your family tree is hard when you live in part of the world (read Balkans/Eastern Europe) where your country/nation was constantly "visited" by some suspicious men, calling themselves "invaders", who had some strange tendency to kill your entire family and destroy any documents about them and your whole nation. Also it does not help that my family is, by the legend, descent of, well.........mythological family.......whose existence isn't even proved. So yeah.........pretty hard to make that family tree.

[@emrecanarduc4378]

As a turk i agree with same as you . Mine says we are descended from Prophet Muhammed(as) :DDDD

[@NeivGabay]

Is Jew, can relate

[@ZekeMackay]

Instead of finding connections to royalty, I've been looking for connections to famous KZbinrs. Hello 11th cousin!

[@riley818]

He’s not even your cousin-

[@ZekeMackay]

@@riley818 what

[@princesspatriot1544]

I went back to Mary Boleyn 10th Grandmother . It was so exciting to find . 30 years of work .Started before the Net .My ancestry online tree rocks , I enjoy it so much .

[@omp199]

I have a third cousin who is descended from Mary Boleyn. So I suppose you are a relative of a relative of mine. Greetings!

[@adammarktaylor]

I'd like to watch a video on "who would the (native) King of Ireland be?"

[@AlohaKavebear]

Adam Taylor the Irish high kingship was elective

[@conorsarsfield7158]

Yes but it was usually just 6 families

[@christophersalinas2722]

Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, was the very last High King wasnt he? Although he may have been Scottish. He was crowned in 1316. Reign ended 2 years later with no successors. He is of clan bruce and had at least 1 child and at least 1 grandchild.

[@christophersalinas2722]

Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin, is current Chief of Clan Bruce, so could be a candidate if you consider High King Edward Bruce to be “native.” If not, we can see Brian O’Neill, Edward’s predecessor. Not sure how his dynasty holds up.

[@collinssportstalk7504]

I actually started family trees since 2017 because of you and your amazing vids!

[@夏神帝晉神帝司馬-公]

I Am A Direct Descendant Of : Sima Yi (Emperor Xuan Of Jin) Who Is A Direct Descendant Of Gongsun Xuanyuan (Yellow Emperor/Huangdi) And Yuwang (Flame Emperor/Yandi), Lu Bu (Fengxian), Sun Tsu (Sun Wu), Ruling Families Of Xia And Shang Dynasties And Sima Yan (Emperor Wu Of Jin). I Am One Of The Last Sima And Gongsun Clan Members. Took The DNA Test And The Result Is That I Am 100% Huaxia Chinese. The Sima Clan Is A Cadet Branch And Rebellious Branch Of The Gongsun Clan

[@siya4ful]

Was it difficult to get this data? I am also Chinese and I see other commenters saying that this site is not as good for non whites.

[@royyark2896]

Cool

[@italianbourgeois2926]

Its the man, the legend... LU BU!

[@夏神帝晉神帝司馬-公]

@@siya4ful Ethnic Han Is Easy, Ethnic Huaxia Is Possible But Difficult To Get

[@夏神帝晉神帝司馬-公]

Time To Restore The Grand Unified Empire Of China !

[@Drakonus_]

I'm Asian, so I kinda feel sad.

[@luthien731]

Drakonus He said in another video about Charlemagne that as long as there was royalty (any monarch, emperors, etc.) that people living today are probably related to royals living over 1000 years ago.

[@peanutbutterpuppies2756]

Ivan the terrible or third married the niece of the last Byzantine emperor

[@madavarams268]

@@peanutbutterpuppies2756 still wont be enough for many. including me

[@peanutbutterpuppies2756]

@@madavarams268 Yeah bad example but I think he talks about being related to the tang dynasty and I believe he does have an Asian royal video. The only problem is I am not sure how well ancient Asians kept track of the family tree.

[@bingchilling5504]

Same :(

[@emmaantenna4352]

I litteraly subbed 10 min ago just to watch this video

[@mememaster2772]

Same

[@betttrbeth]

I used Ancestry & found out I’m Eleanor of Aquitaine’s 30th great-granddaughter. My daughter’s is related to Charles II illegitimately, through her father. It took me a long time but I’m so happy I found these connections!

[@mdxcruz]

I've been doing my family ancestry for 20 yrs. Im a direct descendant on both my mother and father side to the first kings of spain. Those kings are descendants of the burgundy, visigoths tribes, etc. Im a descendant of the grandfather of Mohammed through one of the great granddaughters who married one of the Spanish kings. Im also a descendant of charlemagne, and several Roman emperors. Doing your family history is pretty easy if youre of spanish descendant. Spanish people kept both their mothers maiden name and fathers last name.

[@kadenelijah9329]

Just so you know literally every European is a descendant of Charlegmane

[@bramkegg8292]

It is one thing to find your "royal roots", i.e. that you have ancestors who were royalty, and a completely different thing is to find if you are related or connected to a royal family tree. My ancestors were mainly Polish peasants and petty nobility, but it so happened that one of my grandmother's first cousins married a woman from a "good" noble family. Through this one connection, I was able to build up "my" family tree to over 6,000 people, including the royal houses of Poland, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, France, Scotland and England. As far as I can tell, none of them were among my ancestors. I have used MyHeritage so far, so I will try the Geni now. Maybe I'll have more luck.

[@NVGization]

I`m a descendant from the Frysian kings, the most famous of them is King Redbad.

[@theJellyjoker]

I'm the king of Scotland.

[@niklasgebert28]

You sure look like it!

[@amiraadejumo2103]

U look like it

[@starventure]

Jeff Liggett You’re the king of Scotland? This is for you then! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2iYfIGjrJZ2rc0

[@carolus5409]

The Queen of Scotland doesn't like your comment xD

[@MNRB.oficial]

I'm the king of Portugal lol

[@bruceraykiewicz6274]

As an almost 80 year old. And one who 'stumbles' along with a computer, this is what i found, by accident. I know the correct spelling for my old Polish name. I'm a 4th generation American/Pole. But, by accident, this is what I found a while ago. (first in Polish, W Jm Pan Stanislaw Rajkiewicz, Rotmistrz) Now, translated into American English,(Sir Nobleman, Stanislaw Rajkiewicz, Captain of Horse (Cavalry Captain). When a native born Polish friend translated this for me, I almost fell on the floor! I had no idea about any person in family with this kind of title. BTW, this went way back to 1663. Sorry for the long post.

[@llc1976]

You have a great voice for radio/online. I love your channel.

[@erinrising2799]

I'm pretty sure I am related to a Doge of Venice (not sure if that counts as royalty) So my grandpa always said we were related to the duke of Verona (Doge is more or less equivalent to Duke) Verona doesn't have a specific duke, but it is part of the Veneto and would be governed by Venice. So I start looking at the Doges and I find a guy who has my grandpa's surname and I found a painting...Where this Doge is missing half an eyebrow on the left side. So we have this weird genetic thing where someone every generation is missing that same half of that same eyebrow. Me, my mom, her father(grandpa), his father (great-grandfather) (that's the oldest photo we have) So I haven't been able to actually trace my tree to him, I feel like he is more likely than not, a relative.

[@garnerequestrian]

This is pretty neat. I searched for Mary, queen of scots and it told me this: Mary I, Queen of Scots is your fourth cousin 15 times removed.

[@karenroberton3290]

The only problem I see with this, is other peoples individual research & have they verified their work. If they have not done their work, you will perpetuate errors they started. Seen it on Ancestry all the time. I used to copy peoples tree when I first started, not any more. There were so many errors. Took me ages to correct my tree.

[@beth7935]

Yes, it's ridiculous! You'll see people dying before their kids were born! Mum started our research in 1986 so we've just always checked the actual records, & very carefully! Ancestry can be very useful, but it's far from gospel!

[@troberts1]

Oh yeah, being able to grab and attach people from any tree means so many errors. My mom has taken over the genealogy and she uses Ancestry and on a number of occasions someone will have attached their trees together not bothering to check dates to make sure that they have the correct James from the correct generation.

[@matteusconnollius1203]

This happens a lot on geni, a lot of people whose e existence is seemingly mentioned once online

[@L-AFOL-de-MOC]

I have never found any royal connections in my own family tree, but I was lucky enough to find one in my husband’s. King Edward IV is his last royal ancestor. Pouring through all of that history has been fascinating me for years. So glad to see it’s not just me x.x;

[@lheurech]

I'm asian... I either have a lot of rice farmer family, soldiers or peasant as family lol

[@emrecanarduc4378]

We Turks didn't have surnames but just clan names until Atatürk's reforms :D so it is impossoble to make a proper family tree :D

[@emrecanarduc4378]

@Νικολα Νικολα well ... sorry about that pal but past is past bro :P

[@willywonka3050]

The only person in my family tree who wasn’t a farmer was a serial killer

[@Cyberlucy]

I am glad you pointed out the issues because lazy research is rampant on all the genealogical sites.

[@UntarWow]

Cool stuff. Our families genealogies have always been interesting to the family and found a direct ancestor in Sir Charles Tupper, father of a past Canadian prime minister. Using your method I was able find he is 18 times great grandson of King Henry III of England. Also the Plantagenet line. Henry IV is an great grand uncle.

[@michaelrochester48]

I was aware of my royal roots since I was a child, but I always thought it might be a pipe dream. But, so diligent research I have discovered many Royal lines in great Britain that have led to so many people that you mention on your charts. I also find interesting people like sir Henry Howard the Earl of Sherri who was the last me an executed by King Henry eighth, who was a world class poet as well. So the traditions by my ancestors about our Royal Ancestry was actually spot on.

[@Mariakorunich]

Your voice is so soothing. What I would find VERY interesting is a series on Scottish Clan family trees. For example my mom is a MacDonald but it’s such a normal surname it’s very hard to trace.

[@elefantemorangoeljustino1866]

I've been studying my paternal grandfather's family tree for more than a year. He was a Northern Portuguese and came from peasant family. I've reached the 17th century and only found... well... peasantry. The closest thing I've found so far "being related to nobility" was a 9th-Great Grandparent who was a Infantry Captain for the Portuguese Army.

[@velocassini]

Thats still pretty cool, Portuguese from Higher Alentejo and Santarém here

[@tomservo75]

This looks like a nice app, but the real roadblock to finding my ancestry is that on my dad's side I hit a brick wall after my grandparents, since many in their and my great-grandparents' generation were in Germany during the Third Reich, which means many from 2-3 generations back were killed in the Holocaust and even if not, it's very unlikely there are surviving records. I've been on a lot of geneaology sites and they all hit dead ends. Even if I don't connect to royalty, just knowing who my distant ancestors were would be really cool. Things aren't that much better on my mother's side since most of my family members immigrated fewer than 100 years ago so all that info is "in the old country". My background is Eastern European Jewish like the second guy said. I think my best hope is on my mother's side, which is descended from Austria-Hungary so maybe we'll get a Holy Roman or Hapsburg in there somewhere. Being descended from a family where most of your 3rd generation were genocide victims really sucks :(

[@mariahdelapenia]

Your videos have been so helpful lately since I’m very deep into doing my genealogy. I am about 4 years in.

[@personaronthegreat1399]

This video helps SO much, I had found relatives for about 200 years and now I know which path I need to look down to find royals. And it’s been right infront of me this whole time😑My surname is a place in Scotland which had a Noble and so I reckon, I’ll probably be a distant of James I/James VI and he will be the person I can get to all Royal ancestors from

[@annharris1]

Thanks!

[@annierose8099]

Speaking of William the Conqueror, since your related to him, your also related to Courtney Cox (Friends). How cool is that! As for me, my bio-father’s name is Bradley Krause so therefore, there’s A LOT with that name n I’m sure I’ll have a hard time finding him more than finding if I’m related to some royal. Thank you 😊

[@jonyprepperisrael60]

Thanks to this website I managed to connect my dad's side of the family to an already existing family tree of a famous artist from my family and I just now realised how wide my family is

[@angelmage99]

Familysearch has similar features and problems as geni does. However they also have an add on that goes back 15 generations and can tell you what famous people you're related to.

[@Introvertsan]

How do you use that feature on family search?

[@lateesha8174]

My Grandfathers last name Yearwood is suppost to come from ppl who was Lords up to 1066 in England.

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

Leticia Francisco Your Highness.

[@hershkrukover7846]

ck2 anyone?

[@rateeightx]

What Would I Do If I Have Ancestors That I Know, But I Haven't The Slightest Clue What Their First Name Is Or When They Were Born?

[@elia3136]

Ask your family about them. They'll probably know.

[@canuelasmapping1639]

well it happens the same to me

[@_InTheBin]

I'm freaking out this is my all time favorite English accent. Thanks for that. Your videos could also take like an hour easily for me. edit: I'm not a native EN speaker, though.

[@billyl__.3350]

My Nan took a dna test and it turned out she is related to the Boleyn family (Anne Boleyn was the second wife of king Henry VIII)

[@Blackheart9093]

My husband has ties to the Tudor family his family is Welsh

[@jpgallardo1274]

woah 😮

[@nashz.nabhan914]

interesting!

[@tommoncrieff1154]

And so, therefore, are you. Don't lose your head!

[@cyrilmarasigan7108]

So basically she has a connection to queen elizabeth the first

[@Captain-Axeman]

Your voice is so calming.

[@Helpmetogetsubswithoutavideo]

Hey can you do the family tree of the Vietnamese Emperor?

[@cmae03]

My mom was doing our family tree and when she spotted "Stewart's" on my dad's side dating to the 1700s and earlier, she knew something was up. She tracked it down, and eventually got to King Robert II.. funny enough, my dad's a descendant of his son King Robert III, while my mom found a connection on her side to Robert II's son Robert, the Duke of Albany. We also found a direct link to Joan Beaufort in another line (also in my dad's side), through her second husband James the Black Knight of Lorn, which lead to John of Gaunt and obviously, Edward III of England.

[@catzanddogz7517]

The only way to confirm that your family tree is yours is to compare it to the family trees of your DNA matches. I found two mistakes in my family tree. My ancestors had multiple spouses. My DNA matches are descended from the parents of a different spouse and not from the parents of the spouse my late aunt said we were descended from.

[@AveryFB]

I found of my Grandfather's Dad isn't his dad

[@scarlettcerutti7930]

I’ve watched a few hours worth of your videos that KZbin suggests to me.... and I’m shook, you look nothing like I imagined!

[@UsefulCharts]

🤓 What had you imagined?

[@scarlettcerutti7930]

UsefulCharts ehhh I guess like a midlife crisis looking, partially balding, history teacher (who’s very well spoken). Either that or a Harry Potter-esque living, talking poster chart.

[@mbww8572]

The single most necessary attribute for tracing descent from royalty is ability to trace or connect to multiple lines well in excess of 250 years ago. If you are from say Slovakia, your records are going to peter out around 1800. Thus very unlikely to connect to nobility. In many other Eastern European countries records are even more sparse or inaccessible. OTOH, if you are say French Canadian, you can easily trace 1500 ancestors, hundreds of them in the 1600s, and great likelihood of connecting to one of the 30 or so early French Canadians with known royal descents. It’s all about getting a LOT of lines back to the 1600s.

[@soxnpats4lyfe]

One of the very frustrating things as a Jewish person. I can find to a certain point and then theres nothing

[@AveryFB]

I think it's pretty common for a lot of people not to be able to trace back very far.

[@soxnpats4lyfe]

yes but when there exist zero records before 1940 its safe to assume what the cause of that is.

[@AveryFB]

@@soxnpats4lyfe ahh

[@sidneylewensohn6536]

same it’s kind of annoying bc i want to trace my genealogy really badly

[@glittermama]

My husband has a large number of DNA matches on Ancestry DNA and also Family Tree DNA .com. His family emigrated at the turn of the 20th century and as far as they knew had no relatives at all.

[@Patrick-rc2df]

Love from The Philippines

[@CaAnPeSe4ever]

I found a ‘gateway’ ancestor on geni and through him I found I am descended from Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, Robert the Bruce, to name just a few along with many other lines going back to European royalty and nobility, fascinating!!!

[@tahabashir3779]

I'm also descended from King Alfred. Sup cousin.

[@alynette]

i'm descended from charlemagne, william the conqueror and robert the bruce too lol

[@CaAnPeSe4ever]

Got a family reunion going here! 😉

[@AureliusLaurentius1099]

Hey there my great x10 cousins!

[@niccolorichter1488]

yes your Majesty !

[@adamknox4716]

What's up man! I'm a cousin of yours through John of Gaunt.

[@shaokhan2845]

Adam Knox Same.

[@dr.shibbity8184]

Hi Grandpa

[@beth7935]

Hey, many-times-great uncle! I'm descended from your sister Margaret, through one of her son James V's many illegitimate children :D

[@will-o-wisp6665]

A 3rd great grandmother somewhere in my tree was Scottish, looked into her line because they had really weird names lmao, her grandfather through her mother (5th great grandfather) was a direct descendent of somerled because his male lineage were scottish cheifs, and also a descendent of Margaret Stuart, King Robert II's daughter.

[@Maddog844]

I found my roots easy proud descendant of English kings and American colonists thanks geni and thank this video

[@steveriggan8944]

Good video. Royal ancestry is not out of the ordinary for Americans of colonial descent. Gary Boyd Roberts has put out a new edition of his book called “The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants” in two large volumes and they cover immigrants to the American colonies and Canada who were usually younger children of the landed gentry and aristocracy with pedigrees documented back to the medieval royal families of Europe. I’m sure you are familiar with it. I’m a genealogist and specialize in colonial lines of royal descent. I myself have 3 of these immigrants in my ancestry. On an average, about 60% or more of my clients with colonial lines have at least one ancestor who is listed in Roberts’ book we refer to in short “RD900” which I highly recommend for anyone interested in their possible royal lines.

[@leighcoulson2148]

I've found that once you get to anything like royalty, then you end up being related to a boat-load of kings and queens and other famous people (especially 1000 or so years ago). I think I'm up to 36 kings from all over Europe. It was pretty shocking at first but I suspect this is just the norm and not an exception. Interesting though.

[@js24765]

Pretty funny title as a drunk Aussie heh 🤣 Added to my watch later for sober viewing however! The genealogy/ancestral charts are uber interesting, especially around key influential figures in the world.

[@muhammadabdullahhanif8860]

Claim England my boi, i already Made a faction, "useful chart for kingdom of England".

[@gaurav.raj.mishra]

The ck2 is strong in this one.

[@muhammadabdullahhanif8860]

@@gaurav.raj.mishra do you want to join my faction? Or i should give you 15.0 gold first?

[@greninjamastergabe6452]

​@@muhammadabdullahhanif8860 I can do something for you in exchange for a favor, then join your pretender faction. Who's the claimant by the way?

[@МихаилГребенщиков-н8к]

I think it's useless, queen definetly have an immortal trait, she's too powerfull

[@kathyastrom1315]

I was building my tree on Ancestry and got to my 10th great grandfather in Maine in the late 1600s. When I looked at his profile hints, I had tons of connections to documents that were all published genealogy from 100+ years ago in which his family was traced back to Magna Carta signers, then to the Plantagenets, then even further to Charlemagne! So, my 24th great grandfather is King Henry III (who built the current Westminster Abbey), the 25th is his dad King John, the 26th great-grandmother is Eleanor of Aquitaine (a woman I have admired since English History class in college 35 years ago), and the 29h great-grandfather is William the Conqueror. Even later in the line has royal connections. My 17th great-grandfather had been killed at the Battle of Towton. His second wife (not my direct ancestor) was the mother of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII, the first Tudor king.

[@jean-pierredefortin3282]

Question: So I uploaded my GEDCOM (8,000 ancestors) but Geni said they would only upload 5 generations. That's only 31 people. What gives here? I feel like I wasted time and now I can't see ancestor connections. :( This kinda sucks... JP in California

[@teachersophia]

Some branches of my family tree go back to the 1600s, I'm really excited to import this data into geni.

[@benmccoy9196]

i found out awhile ago my family descends from the irish high kings of the mac aodha lineage

[@phearlesspharaoh3697]

I didn’t even know I was related to Royalty until I did a 23and me dna test: it told me i had the dna of “Niall of the 9 hostages” king of Ireland. Didn’t know I was Irish much either, but… I was able to trace it back up my family tree using family search and WOW!!! tons more too.

[@meteoman7958]

Can you discuss the risks of putting your family tree on a public forum?

[@jafarbek5581]

It always amazes me that the Western world has a very well-preserved census and other kinds of documents that almost anyone can track their ancestry. I am from Central Asia and we, Uzbekistan specifically, have a tradition of "shajara" that everyone should know their paternal fathers for up to 7 generations, which is not very long. But fortunately, I know my 13 generations but only paternal lineage, I am making it bigger by adding maternal lineage as possible as i can through talking with our elder relatives and stuff like that

[@velocassini]

I am from Portugal and I wish my family kept records like this. I dont even know my grandfather's father name.

[@goldenglove4663]

MY great great grandfather is king Philip II of Spain

[@user-vs8kj7pl8p]

Not gonna lie he was a little messed up. He liked the Alabama style of dating if you know what I mean

[@dennyhebron3655]

@@user-vs8kj7pl8p also he didnt have any kids

[@Z8_8Z]

@@user-vs8kj7pl8p -lol

[@wholeNwon]

He lived more than 400 years ago, so your parents, grandparents, etc. must have lived a long time.

[@starventure]

Golden Glove Aaahhh. Your joke almost flew over me until I noticed your picture. Quite clever of you. I saw your family crypt recently in Spain. The underground chamber is a bit spooky, especially going down the steps past the rotting rooms. Multiple generational inbreeding is very, very bad for you!

[@rusaliakamalieva9811]

Very interesting 🧐 thank you,inshAllah I will find my Royal family connections soon.

[@pipingpepsi6665]

Do you know who the current Ottoman emperor would be if it were still around today?

[@SoloresGAMING]

Me

[@recurf7492]

osman

[@TheChrisEMartin]

It's Dundar Ali Osman Osmanglu, born 30 December 1930 in Damascus, Syria. He is the great grandson of the last Sultan, Abdul Hamid II. He lived in Syria until he became stranded by the Syrian Civil War and he was evacuated by the current President of Turkey. He now lives in Istanbul.

[@muzenjackson4984]

Harun Osmanoglu.Son of AbdulKerim who was son of Mehmed Selim who was the eldest son of Sultan AbdulHamid Khan

[@soniaabreu3001]

It is nice to see your face, on a family's voice.

[@emrecanarduc4378]

We Turks didn't have surnames but just clan names until Atatürk's reforms :D so it is impossoble to make a proper family tree :D

[@astro_99991]

For us somalis we don't even have last names but we sometimes use our fathers name for it

[@Joshwiththefries]

Thank you so much! Geni is awesome I just traced my family all the way back to my 34th great grandfather Charlemagne lol

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

I’d like to see an East Asian try to trace lineage...

[@starventure]

Napoleon I Bonaparte Do you mean like Chinese? They have extremely extensive historical documentation there. Not hard at all.

[@juandavidrestrepoduran6007]

@@eduv4475 It depends on each. You'd have to reach into colonial documents, many of them are digitalized

[@loveli1377]

im an east asian...

[@shaokhan2845]

Napoleon I Bonaparte I would say it would be most difficult for South East Asians. Japan has good documents, so does China and Korea.

[@TryinaD]

Shao Khan south east asian here, didn’t get anything on geni

[@stevenironside4648]

My family is apparently a bastard line from goerge 3. One of my ancestors had a non consenting marriage to goerges daughter and him and their kids were exiled to canada. On the other side we can only trac back a few gens to when my ancestor came from cambridge

[@M4ttNet]

Keep in mind there's a lot of bad genealogy out there especially ones with royal connections as a motivation. Be skeptical and verify everything. For example in my many years and tens of thousands of hours of doing genealogy I have found 10-20+ alleged royal lines in my ancestry, only a single one stood up to scrutiny.

[@beth7935]

SO TRUE! I only accept our royal ancestry as legit cos Mum researched the hell out of it, with the skills you needed back in the 80s: tracking down all the records, & double-checking that all the info is consistent from different sources.

[@matthewhines9787]

I find Matt so adorable. He is handsome, cuddly, super intelligent...yeah, I'm in.

[@darius349]

lol

[@alexjunken8036]

I havent tried it yet but Im sceptical if I can actually comment, since my family tree and most people in central europe I imagine, cant go further back than the thirty year war because most churches and records were burnt.

[@wholeNwon]

Many years ago...before the web...my great aunt went to Europe on an ancestor quest. She was able to trace the family back over 600 years, mostly with church records. Then wars, fires, etc. ended the quest.

[@heddwyncloakoftimekeep7744]

I'm related to a Welsh Prince called Sir perrin, my last name is perring, my family says the story was pased along generations that the 'g' on the end was added because our family used to steal lots of things and for some reason locals decided to call us perring instead of perrin. Also my nans side is Scottish and I'm mostly Welsh but half Scottish, and I may even be related to a famous Scottish king or ruler like William Wallace.

[@fernandoevansmoncloa1383]

What if you merge with someone who happens to have an ancestor who has the same name birthdate and death date as your ancestor

[@omp199]

@@MisaloSloe Nonsense. I'm sure it happens all the time. Lots of people have common names, and lots of people have very imprecise estimates for their birth and death dates, or even dates that are missing altogether. People with similar names are always getting mixed up with each other. I'm sure that Geni is a mess, precisely because of this sort of thing.

[@ryanvoll7088]

So an update to my previous comment, that maybe should have been part of your video. Geni.com requires new users to review any possible matches with other people’s trees. It doesn’t automatically link the trees together. And this can take a long time if you have a lot of people in a family tree GEDCOM file that you upload. I’m a couple days in and still the site is uploading information from my GEDCOM, as it waits for my manual reviews.

[@SleepyNose3141]

all I know is that I'm a descanted of an ancient ape human sort of thing. that's good enough for me.

[@michaelrochester48]

My ancestors came to Prince Edward Island in 1804. So I have different gateway ancestors than most Americans who are descended from the early colonial settlers of the 1600s. So although ultimately I have the same answers as one of the early settlers they are through different families until you get to the common medieval Royal and Noble ancestors