How To Tell Who Your Ancestors Were

Were your ancestors famous historical figures? Well, in this video, we'll show you how to tell, and more.
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[@theburdplays7110]

dude 1: she's hot! dude 2: she's my cousin! dude 1: really? dude 2: We're all cousins! r.i.p. the bee movie

[@mirabellegacha8363]

That would mean Barry’s parents-

[@Drakonus_]

*"Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, ooooh yellow and black"*

[@zip-zucc]

those first two lines gave it away.

[@setaentertainment4311]

We've been sticking in crazy.

[@arah8998]

Sweeeet home Alabama

[@deadking8224]

Shoutout to everybody descending from the first Human Being

[@darthraider1898]

Yes, we are all African brothers and sisters.

[@jjobbdunne4700]

@@darthraider1898 are white people from black people

[@darthraider1898]

Yes, do you not know this?

[@jjobbdunne4700]

@@darthraider1898 thank you for the reply I'm in my late forties left school at 15 . So much disinformation out there. I don't know what is true anymore. My parents education was worse 1940s and 1950s at school no TVs no telephones etc and not may black people at during those times in UK?

[@HDTomo]

@@jjobbdunne4700 we were all black but we had sex with Neanderthals

[@jonahsemenchuk184]

My grandpa was HUGE into this. He traced my family's heritage all the way to a man who was on the boats with prisoners to botany bay in 1789.

[@jonahsemenchuk184]

@@vanbalzup6481 thats crazy

[@sinisterwrecks]

@@jonahsemenchuk184 That's actually cool. Farthest back I know for my family is Hernan Cortes

[@Josephhhhh2077]

@@vanbalzup6481there are records from that Long ago? Nah I don’t think so

[@Josephhhhh2077]

@@vanbalzup6481 so you’re actually related to a god? You’re like a demigod

[@CrunchytheGoblin]

@@vanbalzup6481I can trace mine back to when we were fish

[@user-qj9go7jj3f]

I'm what you call a Maori. We have this thing called Whakapapa which is like our way of keeping track of our lineage. A cool thing that I learnt about my whakapapa is that through my fathers side, our war chief Te Wherowhero (The Red Man) is my 7x great grandfather! Through Te Wherowhero, I can whakapapa all the way back to other significant people from my tribe such as Te Rauangaanga and Hoturoa.

[@sweetmoiraify]

I LOVE THIS ♥

[@sweetmoiraify]

now i am reading about Te Rauparaha

[@Illumimate08]

Cool to see another kiwi here

[@AsIfItNeverWas]

Gene pool: exists Genghis Khan: *_It's free real estate_*

[@glanni]

😂👌

[@abrahemsamander3967]

Why haven’t this comment been hearted?

[@toxiclava5879]

I’ll be taking this comment and turning it into a meme thank you

[@tvphantom4867]

*Spawn has joined the chat*

[@rephaelreyes8552]

Asians rise up

[@greenman5255]

If "Nobility" is short for "No Ability", then yes, I am Nobility.

[@Jack10158]

Good one

[@nocontext9635]

gg ez you noob lol get nae nae i show you my anime tiddies

[@killmenow3181]

@@nocontext9635 well? Where are ur anime ta ta's?

[@maninedoow5895]

😂😂

[@mattgabrielbanua3957]

True Because they don't do anything

[@hanshallo4468]

My ancestors used to have their own autonomous territory in the Ottoman Empire & ruled over that area (there's even a historical document that lists all my ancestors + events that happened during that time. ) My family doesn't own all of that territory but still inherited over 10 square-kilometer land there (small communities included). Nevertheless it's also important so say that the tribe of my great-grandma that used to be noble was completely wiped out. My great-grandma was the only one left!

[@daymenpollet4202]

Complete viped out? 😂

[@JonathanVegaa]

I mean they weren’t completely wiped out you’re still here

[@Kaidrawsstuff]

Almost completely wiped out but honestly that's crazy!

[@PineappleOnPizza69]

where exactly that territory dude the Ottoman literally spanned over 3 continents

[@hanshallo4468]

@@daymenpollet4202 Even though I'm fluent in 5 languages, English isn't my native language fyi

[@IceBirdCajz]

My dad gave me a DNA test and we found out we were like 70% Portuguese/Galician and were descended from famous Conquistador warriors who were awarded nobility. EDIT: I’m from Brazil and my last name means “bELt” in Portuguese.

[@Henrique_Vincent]

Cinto?

[@Henrique_Vincent]

Ou correia?

[@IceBirdCajz]

@@Henrique_Vincent sim!

[@jjarmstrong1997]

My DNA told us we were 70% slaves from one of the Kings of England. Now that is something I can brag about!

[@bigslimerfives]

im from brazil and my last name means milk in portuguese :/

[@hellraiser1306]

Me, full chinese, watching this : maybe king John is my ancestor

[@joshbopper]

Genghis Khan

[@hm.7959]

You should be looking north not west

[@MrVictor1227]

You definetly are descendant of some Chinese Nobility or Genghis Khan or both

[@LibShitted]

@@hm.7959 east*

[@hm.7959]

@@LibShitted no I was right by saying north because Europe is west of china and Mongolia is north of China

[@toasterstore8031]

"Unless your surname been changed." African Americans: aight bouta head out

[@slamzam]

Ya'll Mind If I Hit Dat T-Pose XD lmaoo

[@hammydammy123]

I don’t get it-

[@debbiefoster8366]

@@hammydammy123 slavery most black people in America have white last names or simplified versions

[@adenishola144]

Debra Foster r/woosh

[@claireconrad876]

@@adenishola144 I dont think that person was joking when they asked that

[@rivermoon6190]

My ancestor was married to Robert Bruce and was of Irish Norman family, who were knights and close friends of King John. Another family member was a witness and mentioned at the signing of the Magna Carta and a further family member married Lionel, Duke of Clarence (a son of Edward III) and so changed the course of Nobility at the War of the Roses.

[@judithkelly2556]

I have Robert in my tree also

[@amydavidval]

Cool!

[@packard5682]

My connection is to Edward the III's son John of Gaunt. My 16th great grandmother was Elizabeth Woodville who had a very major role in the change in the line of nobility. I have ended up learning more about English history than I ever planned to by doing my family history. I wish I had studied this hard back in school.

[@ejtack]

my grandfather was very interested in this, and found out we were related to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

[@judimardula8685]

I had an Aunt who was very interested in this. She even went to Ireland to continue her research. Most people of Irish descent can find a royal somewhere in their family tree. Turns out my ancestor was hung for sheep stealing. My Aunt gave up her hobby post haste.

[@maninhu9837]

Hey atleast he was not a welsh sheep f#cker

[@ADMICKEY]

Eh, sounds like a common crime whenever that was

[@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801]

Not that I'm an expert in Irish history, or even that knowledgeable about the Celtic people, but I understand quite a few Irish have "Viking Norse" DNA circulating through their arteries and veins.... Apparently a lot of Russians do too. And for those who believe in the ethnic/racial "superiority" of the "Nordic ideal" (You know--platinum blonde hair and blue/light colored eyes...Basically Hitler's "wet dream"), if you go far enough back, even THEY had ancestors that probably looked a little too "colorful" for them. (Every time I look at a brown mole on my skin, as a fairly "white" guy myself I start thinking: "Hey! I think I might be related to Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@domdabomb2033]

@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801 himmler’s wet dream*. Hitler was racist, but himmler made all the policies and enforced them.

[@broidk8291]

@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801 also not an expert in anyway but i believe this applies most strongly for descendants of the southeastish coast of ireland. Dublin down sorta. the area of ireland most likely to have been raided by the vikings

[@solaire7046]

Kinda crazy to think that literally billions of ancestors worked, fought and died for us to complain about slow wifi.

[@daundreharris2065]

Facts

[@Katie2986]

*Underrated comment*

[@greywisteria8201]

Yup. ...connection sucks smh

[@slaviclettuce7937]

or about corona which is a joke compared to almost any pandemic from the past.

[@kjgfgzfxchhg]

Stupid

[@randommf3549]

We all are descendants of nobility take this 👑 y'all drop it Kings and Queens

[@amandapittar9398]

I have loved doing family history since I was a teenager and found my granny’s birthday notebook. When doing my husbands family tree some familiar names cropped up. We have a common ancestor. His father is descended from the elder son, my mother from the younger son. We are cousins 13 times removed. What’s funny is that we met in one country, both coming from other countries. We ARE all connected to each other in a way. I can claim James III of Scotland as an ancestor. Along with 50% of Scotland. Jamie got about a bit. We can all only be 100% sure of our matriarchal lineage. Such is life. Great video.😊

[@PinkLyfe69]

"Are you related to nobility?" Me, a native american: perhaps

[@Toby-vl2ug]

WHERE IS CHARLES LEE

[@Takezhu88]

Toby sigh

[@Darkshadow-ll8ge]

@@Toby-vl2ug 😂

[@whalewithgingerale]

Welcome to the club

[@bobsburgers8497]

Me an African American: lol prolly

[@rayhoodoo847]

My surname in Latvian means “Oak leg”. Guess my ancestor was a pirate.

[@colmhain]

Kajuzolz?

[@michaelthompson7217]

Maybe he was pegleg himself

[@agnosticdeity4687]

Or maybe he had really strong legs.

[@riograndedosulball248]

My Celt surname means mountain. Am i a descendent of the Durin people (Dwarves) of Lord of the Rings? I'll never know...

[@_robustus_]

Ray Hoodoo Maybe it was the middle leg they were talking about...

[@TheGooberGrape]

My dad is obsessed with ancestry, he can never see your videos or he’ll stay up for 50 hours at a time doing related research. He’s already gone back hundreds of years in the family tree on both his side and my mom’s.

[@agme8045]

Am I your dad?

[@harrisonfry128]

I think the coolest thing I found for me was being a descendant of King James IV of Scotland through a bastard of his, and the Dukes of Norfolk, and all of them fought against each other in the Battle of Flodden Field, while also being related to a number of the Scottish nobles that died along side of James

[@ca9ri498]

Me: kills sick child that was coughing on me My spartan ancestors: 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Dosemen]

Anthony Salgado you would have been thrown in the pit for being weak

[@Kaledrone]

@@Dosemen So would you and I.

[@nebulakula5410]

wow

[@rorybranos]

@@Dosemen just so you know that's a lie. They just made them slaves. And it was legal to kill them.

[@takeda604]

Ac odyssey

[@yesimokada7895]

*Me about to claim an ancient throne after concluding that I have nearly 2 drops of royal blood*

[@hydrolito]

Who recognizes the thrown of Sumeria?

[@lets_wrapitup]

@@hydrolito I doubt you’re from iraq

[@DiamondDog12]

@@lets_wrapitup Well he May have ancestors from iraq

[@sandychen1381]

‘

[@suekarlov4908]

and then you bleed and lose those 2 drops of blood:

[@Momo_Kawashima]

Me, a southern italian, whose last name apparently means "freed slave" in ancient calabrese dialect: *I AM THE KING OF THE MONKEYS!*

[@JoaoVictor-rd9gz]

I have a cousin in my family that knew that we were descended from the Portuguese, she went all in on her research about the family tree, turns out our family ''castelo branco'' was a noble family back in the day. With roots in the Portuguese and Spanish royalty as well as having a Jewish line, our family decided to group everyone together in the hope that we could get the Portuguese citizenship as it would've been much cheaper to get into the process if many people in the family would've agreed to it. So here we are with our European citizenship now hahahaha

[@riskyjack6474]

I would love to time travel just to map out my family tree.

[@cherrycoyote55]

Thats how you cause the grandfather paradox... several times...

[@Roxy_303]

Cherry coyote 😂

[@eirin099]

dark moment

[@heddwyncloakoftimekeep7744]

Swme

[@alurnagacha1113]

I so agree with you!

[@historyrhymes1701]

So hypothetically , in1000 years 80% of all americans would be descends of Charlie Sheen.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Yes

[@MD-nv6rp]

Bulgarian empire mapping hahahahahahaha... awesome 👏 so true and kinda scary

[@CadarnTheMad1810]

yup, defo a possibility, Genghis Khan currently has around 0.8% of the population of THE WORLD decended from him. As a percentage that doesn't sound like much, but thats about 16 MILLION people today fun side note, I'm decended from a Norman knight Hugo de Limesi

[@GarfieldRex]

No, Latinos aren't descendant from Charlemagne :v maybe

[@CadarnTheMad1810]

@@GarfieldRex good possibility - French Knight decended form him joined in the reconquista, settled in Spain one of his decendants joined the colonisation of the new world.....somewhere down the line someone marries a mative from the region. every generation from then on will be

[@jackfhl04]

the very start of my bloodline (on my moms side) is: Sir Hugh de Paduinan (1140-1189) who was a Scottish-Norman Baron who fought in the crusades and was granted land for it by the scottish crown. He also created “Clan Houston” which is a sub clan of some bigger clans in Scotland. The castle he built on his lands still stands today in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Shoutout to my fellow Houstons 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@katherinekibbe4254]

You explain things so well. I think I'm gonna check your channel out

[@chaos9731]

Me: *coughs on the antivax kid whos been bullying me lately* My spain conquistadorian ancestors: *(Y) Pride*

[@jackkessler9876]

You are a prince among men....

[@TvConfusionn]

CHAOS He was gonna die anyways

[@sethleoric2598]

It's like that scene in Mulan but everyone is happy

[@HVLLOWS1999]

I too descend from Reconquista-ing Caballos!

[@HVLLOWS1999]

DEVS VULT

[@Storm_x]

Pfft step aside peasants I descended from the first human who ever existed. Edit 06-Aug-2021: Graduated with a First Class Honours in a STEM degree for my undergraduate Bachelors. One step closer to world domination ;)

[@paulreyes270]

LMAO

[@agirl4677]

How is that possible? Me too!

[@Marxist-Nixonist-Bidenist]

Step aside worm, I descended from the first living being that ever existed

[@samh864]

Yo we we all distant cousins

[@imperia8923]

Nagito Komaeda pfff step aside scrub I am a descendent of the first ever atom

[@triforcehero6264]

My family once did a genetic test. We found out a whole bunch of cool stuff, but one thing in particular that I thought was cool was that the company predicted that we were descendants of Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks. We also have roots in Western Russia and Scotland which is cool.

[@christelklinko7683]

Thank you for all the information

[@meowmiao36]

“Is Charlemagne your grandfather?” That doesn’t seem possible

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

he had many bastards

[@pingwin7990]

@@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 He had bastards in da late 20th century?

[@urbanbang5513]

Pingwin yes

[@Sunrah]

isn't the queen of england a descendant of charlemagne? there's probably a shit load of people who could trace their lineage to him

[@fluffykitten2078]

@@Sunrah Yeah but he can't be your grandfather because as far as I know peple don't live to that age. But yes most europeans are descended from charlemagne

[@shnoopydoopy6707]

Kid in 2nd grade: iM ReLatEd tO GeOrGe WaSHinGtoN

[@willowhicks6824]

@KethanGamerHD for real 😂😂😂

[@buttoxchewy7091]

shnoopy doopy real shit what If you really are tho ?

[@_DMNO_]

@@buttoxchewy7091 i would take my rightful throne as king of America

[@unovasfinest2623]

vegetariansteak I'd support this 👀

[@shnoopydoopy6707]

@@buttoxchewy7091 Then im changing my last name to washington and naming my first son george lmao.

[@darnelsdisco4074]

My dad was adopted and I was never told much about my mothers ancestry. I'm a very proud person, love being an American, and it's really frustrating to not know what culture or peoples I should be proud to be from. Maybe I should just start documenting it now, so my great grandchildren will know that they are from a long line of Americans.

[@dannacollins2520]

Genetics can show your people that are in you!

[@markmckie843]

My mother had over 100 notebooks of family lines.Charlamagne was in there.The first governor of Virginia was the first in America.I was named for King Edward.Patrick Henry was related.Some lines were traced back to Adam and Eve.Zachary Taylor was related.More recently Townes Van Zandt was a second cousin.My great grandmother was Choctaw.My Mother was researching back before 1960 when I born until her death 4 years ago. I got her web tv years ago and she got online to research.

[@xchoochoopainx]

"your last name is key" laughs in asian last name

[@rinkorinko9969]

But last names like Nguyen and Tran have history behind them

[@hairyputter5363]

Laughs in indian last name

[@sutomuarashi]

@Pei Tharchia ur a rootless plant

[@na5794]

It depends on the Asian, many Japanese can still trace their familial clans.

[@reverseimagesearch0results363]

*raffs

[@ashleysmith2800]

"your last name is key" - laughs in Caribbean - - laughs in popular last name -

[@sutomuarashi]

XDD

[@joughnut496]

“Ashley Smith” Ah, so your related to 50% of the US population. If you have a Johnson last name somewhere in your family, you’d be related to the other 50%

[@ashleysmith2800]

@@joughnut496 I doubt that. I'm from Jamaica and in the time of slavery, slaves were given new names when they arrived on plantations. In most cases, all the slaves on the plantation were given the same last name as their master and as a result, my last name is pretty popular, even in Jamaica. I am mixed race but it's mostly in my mother's family line and father's maternal line so I still have a quite popular last name. No Johnson in the family also, oopsie :)

[@Manie230]

Slothster 0612 if you’re called Müller/miller it’s very likely that one of your ancestors was in fact working in a mill. Many German last names refer to the job people had in the Middle Ages. Müller = Miller someone who worked in a mill. Fischer = fisher pretty self explanatory Schreiner = Carpenter So yeah many German last names just refer to jobs and this makes finding an ancestor very hard. I just checked and it seems like my last name originated in Switzerland. Some royals were called similar and one website says that over time my last name evolved from that. So this makes it even more complicated to find my ancestors given that I only know my grandparents and after my great grandparents the trail ist lost.

[@tugalord]

Me: Laughs on one of the most common last names in Portugal comes from one of the noblest of family and who probably descended from Leon's royal family and maybe even from the Roman emperors I'm speaking about da Silva And in Portugal people have two last names and also come from the Fraga family (another noble family)

[@PrinceWalacra]

Correct story… being a Dutchman but descendent from Scottish King Malcolm in my father’s and mother’s family tree line… nobility was like a “cast -system” in the Middle ages (and easy to trace back from earlier than 1600 whenever you find link, before that there are not so many records for the rest of the population). The nobility also started to mingle with the “common people” , first in the 16th-17th century when the “bourgeoisie” became richer by trade (and becoming poorer after again). So my family tree is made up by famers and nobility and many more, genes and social inheritance do mix eventually… thankfully.

[@RuthenianGirl]

Мені стало ліньки міняти розкладку на клавіатурі, але дякую за це чудове відео❤ Ти надихнув мене повернутися до генеалогічних досліджень!)))

[@kaihiggins725]

Everyone in england is related to a king as literally most of our kings had about 50 bastards each lol

[@murimimuchina855]

Fr

[@nomenium]

true

[@jamesdjl4359]

I Don't blame them. Gotta keep the genetic lineage alive and well. Procreation and genetic conservation is paramount to us animals.

[@ciaranwalsh2131]

fook England

[@kaihiggins725]

@@ciaranwalsh2131 awww does someone need some attention?

[@luckymasters1034]

My ancestor is a neanderthal and he lived in a cave in Germany

[@stuartriddle919]

Guy LaDouche ugg street?

[@laurence345]

Your Neanderthal ancestors invaded caves in Poland causing a Great War which my neanderthal ancestors served in.

[@donnie8032]

50 years ago

[@davids1854]

Dude same

[@davehallett3128]

@@donnie8032 nice one

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady]

We traced my mother's side of the family all the way back to William the Conqueror. My father's side of the family has been difficult. We are mostly English but we get some German from him. The Jewish was a surprise. DNA and genealogy is fascinating.

[@hairyjohnson2597]

My mother is a O'Keefe. Did our dna test and her uncle worked at Penn state years ago as an genealogists. Well, we're descendants of the eóganacht Glendamnach, kings of munster. The O'Keefe ruled at castle Dromagh. Dna results showed me being related to other O'Keefe who still live around munster, fermoy etc. Pretty cool knowing I'm from a line that last hundreds of year's as kings and rulers.

[@user-mj2bq1hg7f]

Weebs be like: "I have 0.00000000000001% Japanese blood so technically I am Japanese"

[@648546lllooolll]

Calm down Elizabeth Warren

[@joew2236]

Dale Jennings you stole the words out of my mouth

[@paprikaa117]

"Wtf shut the fuck up Ja'Zion you are blacker than the fricking asphalt on the playground"

[@shmart5957]

Who wants to be japanese

[@tomasbindateplitzky928]

technically Naruto´s third cousing, maybe I could even become a Kage

[@fizz9512]

Bruh my dad says im related to issac newton buT HE WAS A VIRGIN

[@ThatGuyCanmanNC]

fizz hahaha why does he thing that or is he just kappa’ing?

[@fizz9512]

@@ThatGuyCanmanNC He said it to me when I was younger but I think it was because he wanted me to feel special

[@klaviersimp]

He could be a cousin/uncle?

[@Monyato]

fizz you still could be. Obviously not a descendant but you might be a descendant of his family. He wasn’t the only newton after all.

[@gwyndolindarkmoon2402]

Slapfacegamer If he wasn’t intelligent enough to guess that, he’s definitely of no relation. Lmfao just cracking a joke, i mean no harm

[@WouldbeRenaissanceLady6926]

I was continually told by my late aunt on my mother's side that my maternal Great-Great Grandmother's family were very wealthy, coming from nobility. However, we have reached a dead-end with her mother (my Great-Great-Great Grandmother) as it looks like she was likely illegitimate and we can't find a record of her birth or baptism (born 1812 in Wales.) This is very much a work in progress. A relative of mine on my paternal side has informed me that my Great-Great Grandfather emigrated from Lancashire in the 19thc to work in North America and fought the on the side of the Yankees at the Battle of Gettysburg. So I was told, his son Nathan who was a twelve year old little drummer boy, was shot and killed at that Battle. Another of my relatives (also from Lancashire) took his family to work in Massachusetts. It transpires that they had tickets to sail on the Titanic (second-class) but at the last minute the White-Star Line informed them that there had been an "administrative mix-up" one week before they were due to sail and they were switched to another ship... My genealogy studies have lead me to take qualifications in history, to study basic genealogy skills and to take an interest in the history of the place that I was born and grown up-in which has given me a bit of help. You will be absolutely amazed at what you find when pulling down the undiscovered branches of your family tree. Some of it will make you sad, some will make you happy. 👍

[@Ah0jtadyHanka]

I am just in the beginning of the video, but I remembered how in a city in south Moravia (Czechia) they found 7 graves with rich people from 9 century, when there was Great Moravia, and then they took the DNA and compared it with 340 men from that city, and 18 of them were for sure their straight ancestors. How amazing!

[@michaelmorneweck2790]

Seeing as how I’m German and none of my family seems to know exactly who my great great grandparents are I can only assume they had to flee from some fairly well known global conflict.

[@micahkinggodgodself323]

Hmm I wonder what this fairly well know conflict is?

[@3cpeter]

Oooooor….

[@gaslight.gatekeep.girlboss6476]

oof

[@deleted-something]

I Wonder which one

[@VarangianGuard200]

Have you looked into Argentina? You migth have familt there? He's very likely dead by now but they made a movie where he cloned himself lol. So clone relatives?? lol.

[@michaelpopup]

Bruh to be honest, I was probably just some random pilgrim who just wanted to survive.

[@dutchman7623]

Eh... Popup doesn't appear on the list of the Mayflower.

[@kaliyahrobinson1]

LOLLLL

[@sandychen1381]

Lolol

[@dumbdude7698]

Except that you aren't your own ancestor

[@michaelpopup]

@@dutchman7623 popup isn't my real last name

[@OWLMoana]

I am directly related to the Incan and Spanish monarchies. My grandpa went to Peru when he was young, and his family had a very old book in which the generations wrote their names (him and his brother wrote their names in it as well). His mom (my great grandmother) looked in the book and it led all the way back to Pachacuti. There was also another Incan royal in that book that married a conquistador, who was connected to the Spanish monarchy

[@bradypatterson8859]

I’m actually a direct descendant of Charlemagne, I’ve got a document tracing the lineage. He’s one my 35th great grandfathers. The document goes from me to my mom to her father all the way up to Charlemagne and Hildegarde of Savoy and through their son Louis the Pious, The document has data in the location and year of the birth and deaths of each person. That part of my family got to the United States in 1634 and 1679 in Virginia through a man named Richard Walmesley who is my 10th great grandfather. We’ve got some other documents that show the links between my family and other historical figures like many of the presidents through marriage and in laws. It’s obviously not as cool as blood relation, but it is really fascinating to see how small the world really is and how you fit into the greater context of human history through connections to important figures.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

I’m descended from the third son of a minor noble English family who came to America knowing he’d never inherit anything. We ended up as poor farmers for 3 centuries. Talk about a fall.

[@Ivanmaradonaaa]

That happens a lot dude. Don't feel bad

[@suleskos.2743]

@Luke Genness 😯

[@ErikAdalbertvanNagel]

If the 3rd son stayed in england the result were aboutthe same.

[@coronavirusokboomer9537]

How did you find out?

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

Shrek karen Boomer Find me on tinder Am hoT I traced my family back to the 800s, where the first records of my bloodline appear. We were Landed Gentry, which is pretty much the lowest rank you can have and still be considered noble. I traced my family’s emergence in America by reading passenger lists on ships. My first American ancestor’s name appears on a passenger disembark manifest in Virginia in the early 1600s. I traced his name back and found he was a third son of the original branch.

[@washingtonian3996]

I was able to trace my mom’s side of my family back to Scottish Nobility around the 1400s, and then to Robert de Brus (the Bruce), king of Scotland in the 1270s

[@k.stewart007]

Apparently mine too. I'm just going of stories my dad used to tell me though I've never actually looked into it. I do think I'm going to start though its very interesting.

[@michaelrochester48]

Balloil and Bruce are both in my tree

[@codyroh7246]

Nice. I can trace my maternal line back to the Dunbars, the Bruces (before THE Robert the Bruce), Huntingtons, Dunkelds (including Malcolm III and his father Duncan), and the MacAlpins, all the way back to Kenneth MacAlpin.

[@99oildrops]

I have Ross, MacKenzie, and Donaldson (or clan MacDonald) and even Stewart in my genealogy though I can't trace my roots extremely far back. Wouldn't surprise me if I descended from Mary or Robert somehow. I do know however that a couple of my 3rd great grandparents both had the MacKenzie last name though. They were distant cousins and they descended from one man and woman who came to the British American settlements in the 1640s. I thought that was pretty neat.

[@pierren___]

Robert de Bruce*

[@Aemilius46]

My entire family (Mother's side and Father's side!!) Come from Europe!! Which is One reason I Absolutely Love History!! 🛡️🗡️

[@Smart-tz3tr]

I did this one time for both my parents side. We traced back until the 18th century and the oldest ancestors were French, so I think I am fully French. On my father side, they were mainly farmers and some servants for rich families. On my mother side, they were almost all hunters and lived in the same village for many centuries. However, turns out that an ancestor on my father side stole something to ancestors of my mother side and he was killed by them for that. So basically, me and my sister are the offspring of Romeo and Juliet.

[@garbobeatz7592]

*"IS ADOLF HITLER YOUR MOM?"*

[@octaviusgalacticus2253]

Males giving birth is more common then you'd think

[@chrislol22]

Luke Boswell wait wat

[@e.sstudios1015]

@@octaviusgalacticus2253 then?

[@fapypapy8407]

The last of his family have decided to not have children so he will never have descendants, that we know of at least

[@3limbsawayfromananeurysm42]

Vot nein

[@discretion16]

Lord Farquad is my ancestor!

[@corinnehorowitz6559]

FaZe Whole it’s Farquaad you uneducated swine

[@Relatablename]

@@corinnehorowitz6559 Thank you for your wisdom.

[@aeon1c555]

FaZe Whole William Farquaad?

[@mploutarchos]

Corinne Horowitz um it’s Fartsquad, excuse you. And as a matter of fact, he is my BAE.

[@luvee659]

@Ratko Mladic Farquud

[@rngnv4551]

I was able to trace my lineage back through my last name to someone pretty intriguing that worked alongside Leonardo Da Vinci and then Michelangelo creating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He moved back to his home country, then did portrait paintings of Kings and Queens until his death. As an artist and designer, I was floored and screaming internally. Some talents run in our blood and appear out of nowhere except genomic expression.

[@fluffedsquirrel]

That's really cool 😂

[@josephwall9161]

I was curious as to whether I was more black than white or more white than black. Asked my Mom, my Dad, cousins Uncles Grandma etc. Eveybody told me to ask my Great Grandma because they said she was the wisest that has ever been in our family and she would know. I went to visit her and asked. Her simple response was “ You is what you is Honey”. When I told my mom what she said. Mom said “ your more black than white. I asked how she got that. She said because if you was more white she woulda said “ you are what you are! “

[@lovecatsanddragons1576]

"your last name is key" **Laughs in father was adopted**

[@ronaldbryant9193]

I have 3 prominent family members in the revolution,helped settle mississippi,1 in the civil war,helped found Johnston co. N.C.. 1 Knight and Sir Francis Bryant was my 13th great grandfather.check his story out,google his life,,,,,WILD.

[@ParkerPlays2005]

@@shadow_walker2188 same i don’t wanna pay a subscription for ancestry

[@Hudson1910]

@@shadow_walker2188 Same here. We adoptees have no place to start. We are left out aren't we?

[@kieranSI]

@@shadow_walker2188 good shit

[@Vincisomething]

**laughs in both sides of my family's ancestors were most likely colonized or enslaved at some point so our "original" last name is probably lost past a few generations.**

[@gregorflopinski9016]

Quick tip: if you’re chinese, the Lad Ghengis is a part of your tree

[@ajayavsm7476]

Sad Indian noises

[@maki-roll5416]

Who's that

[@sutomuarashi]

@@maki-roll5416 google it

[@maki-roll5416]

@@sutomuarashi whos that

[@ren2630]

Yay?

[@alexandriadupuis]

I got really into ancestry and found out everyone in North America with the Farnsworth (/Faneuff/Phaneuf) surname can be traced back to one single man somewhere in our family tree! Which is pretty cool! It was my great grand mother’s maiden name! Shout out to the Phaneuf squad

[@noeve6795]

while researching my family tree i found out that our family is descended from the earl of Norfolk famly tree ( my family name is Norfolk so makes sense). at one point in the Norfolk royal family tree one of Skakespears direct decendents married into the family. so i guess i have a link to Skakespear which is cool

[@marioq2759]

That's extremely impressive! That means that you might be the Y-DNA of Francis Sir Bacon. He was the real Shakespeare writer who had helped with the writing of the 1611 King James Stewart Bible. That means that our Y"s have worked with eachother in the past. Shakespeare also understood Secret Alchemy. And he has many secrets that he hid in not just the King James but also hidden within his Shakespeare writings. As as of me my I am the secret Y of the DaVinci Code in which they knew about.

[@forregom]

When i learned about Charlemane in school; we refered to him as Carl.

[@sutomuarashi]

i call him charly

[@zainbaozen]

that's because the "magne" isn't actually part of his name, it stems from the latin word for "great" (like in "magna carta", or "magnum condoms"), because he was dubbed "charles (or carl) the great". in dutch for example he's called "Karel de grote"

[@patricksedler9697]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ-WoXl8hbifjZY

[@jlarsjansson4702]

I used to call him Charcoal

[@jlarsjansson4702]

@@patricksedler9697 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZfNZnetgLqDgrc

[@woodchuck003]

My Grandfather was born in Sparta, I am pretty sure Leonidas is my uncle.

[@HVLLOWS1999]

That's dope you probably have Turkish and Italic maybe even Slavic because of their invasions in the 11th century. Go back far enough if Leonidas is your uncle then Heracles is your great greatx200 uncle.

[@approachinggnosis4613]

Emperor Of Wall lmfao

[@alltheanswers3567]

What is your profession?

[@muhammadalfatih2640]

@@alltheanswers3567 AWUU AWU!!

[@davidhunt2815]

Leonidas was a homosexual who didn’t like women. He felt that by sleeping with his men he would be closer to his men who fought with him side by side in battle.

[@youngrumandcoke]

My genealogy journey led me to what i already knew. My heritage is 90% Polish with some Eastern European like Russian, Slovak, and Hungarian. What surprised me though is finding distant cousins in Poland and them being willing to send my grandmas diary from the early 1600s and she mentioned my grandpa who was a winged hussar that died somewhere around 1609

[@Jehty21]

Your grandma lived in the early 1600s? 😯

[@youngrumandcoke]

@@Jehty21 great by several generations lol just didnt feel like typing it out as great great great great great great great great great grandma

[@kelleylea5]

Yes, I’m from nobility. I was shocked because I expected to be unable to find out much. But the further I went, it was all Kings and Queens. I’m from King John, William the Conqueror, Norman Kings and lords. I’m from Charlemange 4 times. A couple of Italian Kings, and more. I was able to trace all the way to a descendant of the same family as Pontius Pilate. Robert the Bruce is an ancestor. My family first came to America in 1609 at Jamestown. He was on the Susan Constant I believe.

[@RosinGoblin]

I'm related to the one of the greatest rulers of the world. Danny Devito

[@ittszimyikes]

LOL amazing

[@knova7597]

Prove it, how tall are you?

[@slimshady9147]

Rice n Beans So anyway i started blasting

[@TT-rz5hi]

@@slimshady9147 Shut up no one cares about your blasting.

[@slimshady9147]

T T But i already started blasting :(

[@savanareherman654]

I’m mostly German, so I have spent most of my life praying I’m not related to Hitler

[@cirkitbeats]

Lol

[@k.umquat8604]

@Come on mann Smell it oh f.. a nazi

[@WetSquidy5]

Hey if not hitler maybe rudolf hess

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

Pft, what would be the chances? Also Hitler had no children. But he had a nephew that was half irish and half german and he had the most fitting name: Patrick Hitler XD

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

@Come on mann Smell it Austrian Nationality = German Ethnicity

[@gabrielleperson4794]

I was given my grandmother's genealogy notes. Doesn't go super far back but it included stories.

[@dimitrijearsenijevic5597]

As a person from the balkans, we keep records back usually to the middle ages, which was basically until our ancestors got into a blood feud with each other and moved away and cut all ties (including oral recounting of their past members).

[@nakazatelen141]

We're all cousins here. Sweet home Alabama is true, it's damn true.

[@yesthatisababytoucan.youre6983]

😭

[@riley818]

Nope we’re not cousins

[@TheRealFiveName]

The good thing is that 5th cousins already share less than .8% dna, so we would share like 0.00000000000069 dna

[@riley818]

@@TheRealFiveName no stangers share 0 dna

[@TheRealFiveName]

@@riley818 I didn’t say that we share 0 dna

[@alexdamangames498]

I'm related to the original Heinz ketchup family.

[@brady_6692]

Brooooo

[@nemofunf9862]

such prestige

[@dougraddi908]

Cool

[@andresvillanueva5421]

Amaaazing

[@williamm1014]

Mate thats actually epic

[@I.Read.The.Hobbit.In.1937]

I recently found out that I’m related to Myra Reed Starr, better known as Belle Star, or The Bandit Queen. I’m a cousin, I think, but very distant.

[@bw6138]

My mom's side were in the Scottish Rite freemasons for 300 years. My dad's side moved from Wales to Scotland in the 11th Century.

[@gard86]

"When people move around they often..... pause..... spread their genes..." - Real smooth :D

[@airconditioning5351]

"Use your last name" Me: *a romanian that found 2 people with the same last name in a city 100 km away from my dad's city*

[@dianaespinosa2196]

Im Romanian too. You know anyone with the last name Ciochia

[@pompefunebri7119]

You are probably 98% Romanian

[@davidastefanoaiei6372]

Haha same man

[@belle369]

My last name was changed by my grandfather because it’s Greek and was too hard to pronounce

[@ficustiticus5313]

Hello, fellow Romanians. Our geographic position in Europe actually makes our family trees quite interesting. First off, thanks to the fact that Transylvania's been occupied by Hungarians for so long, we got a lot of genes from the West(Austrians, Germans, Polish people, and many other if we keep taking it like this). Then we have the Eastern side, Moldova, which has been more affected by Russians, Ukrainians and Huns. Together with Walachia, they've bumped into the Turks and Greeks as well, but also Northern Africans, who have been taken away by the Ottoman Empire. This being said, you could be related to Baiazid, Genghis Khan, Austrian nobles, and so on. The family names changed a lot, so looking deep into this might be harder

[@RedEyeGoose]

My family has done this and apparently I am descended from Saint Olaf of Norway

[@youn1700]

As 7 of my 8 great grandparents are Sámi from Northern Finland. I am pretty sure that group is very connected. The 8th is from a very noble family from Ulster.

[@themestizoperspective134]

It matters little in the end, if you work at walmart, and find out you decent from a king, you'll still work at walmart.

[@clownappreciator1479]

What if I wanna be king of walmart

[@TyrantWarlord]

O' Bear no one wants that

[@theworldoverheavan560]

@@TyrantWarlord amen

[@auxangess]

I hope to be Queen of Bunnings so I can punish that man who ran out of Bunnings snags as I left the store

[@clownappreciator1479]

@@TyrantWarlord I DO! I wanna be the king of Wal-Mart and I want to pass down the title to all of my descendants so years later people will claim to be descended from me!

[@rickbergolla4055]

My prestigious ancestor is carl, carl the farmer and metilda of the brothal

[@jasonpermana]

@Hoàng Nguyên lol

[@jasonpermana]

@Hoàng Nguyên wew

[@FirstnameLastname-py3bc]

This made my night!

[@ReaperGamesMC]

My ancestors were polish farmers literally as far as I can go back on my moms side it’s polish farmers and peasants up until the 1900’s and on my dads side American farmers up until well now

[@rickbergolla4055]

@@ReaperGamesMC at least they had a job. and the fact yours is recorded that far back shows a great deal of stability in your family tree. Not everyone's family tree can go that far back unless they are drawing make belief dots connecting to great houses in attempt to look more prestigious.

[@ianweckhorst3200]

I did actually already know if you go only four generations, my last name comes from Norway, my family has a huge book about our Nordic descent and since I’m actually the most recent in a line of first born sons, I actually get to inherit the family Viking blade, it’s pretty short, mostly ceremonial and so blunt the only thing it could do is open letters, but it’s still really cool!

[@r6niki]

oh wow thats really cool, how old is that "sword"/blade?

[@fire.smok3]

Very interesting

[@limmeh7881]

I am a descendant of my mom and dad.

[@CommodoreJ]

I’m a distant relative of my mom and dad

[@bloxknight1145]

BRO ME THO!!!

[@SJ-ex2md]

No fucking way bro say u swear to fucking god bro?

[@samuelrichter3417]

We gonna tell him he's adopted or what?

[@Drheims]

@@samuelrichter3417 that could also be a possiblity

[@kayduhaime8929]

We've done some ancestry, and my daughter traced us back to Joan of Arc. She was an aunt 16times back, and her brother was a grandfather back as many times also.

[@buggymah]

That’s really cool!

[@mhania_4624]

D arc? French?

[@mhania_4624]

@Varonvan Nah there are official records of her crucificationa and she was later beatified. Jeanne d'Arc was her name and she was a general in the french army although some of the shit she did is prolly fake.

[@rjmurphyo0]

if you have French ancestry, almost everyone tracks back to her. I have French Canadian ancestry and Geni says I'm a 3rd cousin 20 times removed to Joan of Arc.

[@purpleeuphoric8917]

kay duhaime Joan of arc was killed for being a heretic by the catholic church and was tortured she was killed practicing something different than Catholicism since Catholicism was the official religion of england and france and italy during the middleages except judaism and islam and buddhism and hinduism and gnosticism and mandeans and also sethians .

[@whitewingedreaper]

A little while ago my Mom and I did some research into our family tree on my Grandma's side. Turns out we have some Revolutionary war and May Flower ancestors. We've joined DAR now.:)

[@GuacJuan]

Although many are descended from royalty, those who are direct descendants have very interesting family trees

[@marioq2759]

I have one of the most rare interesting and important tree out there. And have Y-DNA evidence.

[@confusedcossack2885]

"Your last name is key" Laughs in great grandparents misspelling their last name after immigration.

[@a1phamalestud]

True

[@baydenlikesmilk947]

HAHAHHAHA same my great grandparents came from germany and changed their names to be more american...

[@otterno.1128]

My family's name used to be 'Pickles' but they thought it sounded too stupid when they were trying to get into business and changed it to something more respectable lol

[@Voshed518]

My last name got misspelled by a priest so many times that it has changed into something no one in sweden is named unless they are related to me

[@otterno.1128]

@@Voshed518 haha apparently 'Pickles' is a misspelling of 'Bickle' which mean 'pig farmer'

[@archimedes4300]

I'm japanese but my paternal grandfather came from aceh indonesia and my dad always told me that my grandfather was part arabic and portugese, the arabic part was pretty interesting since it turned out I'm related to the caliph of andalusia which means that they ruled my other ancestors from the portugese side. pretty unique for a japanese kid lol

[@lightyagami3492]

That is unique especially for somebody of Asian descent. From what i know most Asian societies are nearly 100% homogenous meaning there isnt much diversity in the gene pool.

[@patrikmokos9864]

@@lightyagami3492 I have a noble nacestors from almost every country of Europe but not even one of other than europoid (except for european ethnic groups). And I don't know any noble descendant with any non-european ancestor. Yeah, multiculturalism was not really popular in the world back then.

[@nuk3fishydude902]

@Zobian Atassi باب

[@americancountryball2077]

Is Naruto actually a thing from noodles instead of an anime character

[@NiffirgkcaJ]

@@americancountryball2077 narutomaki.

[@espuchi5315]

My Nigerian cousin is actually the prince and sent me an email saying I have a spot in the thrown as long as I send him money every month!

[@michelledesyatkov9779]

I have a ancestor who while illegally dueling killed someone and got kicked out of England. Probably due to his wealth got to choose what colony he got sent to Australia or America, he chose America and I am freezing in the Northeast today as much of my family has for several generations.

[@shortlong8936]

I feel the need *the need for conquest*

[@baamonster2]

Is your name william?

[@shortlong8936]

@@baamonster2 William Alexander Khan-Tepesh

[@baamonster2]

@@shortlong8936 that's a great conquerors name. You should totally invade England once they leave the EU.

[@user-vs8kj7pl8p]

Short Long King William-Alexander joins the chat

[@lucifermorningstar6169]

Abrams: "the great father" "Father of nations" Basically most biblical jewish name you can get. Ancestor was a important priest and his son was a bishop at the Monastery of Ramsey. Wrote his name down somewhere between 980 - 1163 in the monastery. Abrams is a polytransic version of abraham direct from the bible. While i am definately not a christian this was strange. My family crest is a blue sheild with a yellow sun. Should i tell my ancestors that i dont wanna preach? 😂

[@yungtrashlord]

fire of learning: do you share the blood of a roman emperor me, an asian, looking at my yellow skin: yes

[@unknownzzz5115]

Ah I heard there is a Chinese city founded by a Roman legion (probably a legend but cool anyway)

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

@@unknownzzz5115 That’s debated but it is known there was trade going on between the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty China. Also the Tocharians were an Indo-European people who lived in the Taklamakan desert, which is now part of China so, depending on if your ancestors came from that part of China, you might have a drop of Indo-European ancestry in you.

[@youngguywastinghislife2084]

Me being a Filipino probably have a high chance of having a European, Spanish nobility blood in me than other Asians due to the hundred of years of it being colonized. I may also have Asian noble blood in me due to the dark history of Philippine before it was colonized. Philippines had a great trading exchange with other asian country

[@user-el2yw1kb5h]

Hey, the romans ruled the city that I'm from 😏 I might be sharing the blood of a Roman soldier or even an emperor

[@ericromano8078]

I wish I had Roman ancestry but nothing seems to indicate it.

[@Denis-mg1wj]

I found a medieval document that first mentions villages in the area but my village was not named as such but was land owned by the person after whom it was named and in middle ages only knights and nobility were allowed to own land. And my family happens to be one of the families that didn't move in from somewhere else. As for famous people I got quite some on my mothers side, a great uncle shot a certain Archduke.

[@Z3N1TY0]

BRO WE LEARNED ABOUT YOUR RELATIVES IN CLASS

[@chidoking09]

@@Z3N1TY0nah

[@gregorysamaniego36]

Sir, I have a throne in my home, that i have to wait in line for sometimes. I sit on to do my critical thinking often... even more often after Taco Bell!

[@tortle734]

I have traced my family back to the 1500s and found that I am very vaguely, related to George Washington. I get English, Scottish, and Irish from my dad, and German and Cherokee from my mom. I also found that I had ancester that fought in both world wars, one of them was 17 and lied about his age to dight the germans in ww1. Proud of my family history

[@FZ69420]

How did you do it?

[@tortle734]

@@FZ69420 my grandpa did it. Idk how bit a big factor was my last name in a bloody battle

[@FZ69420]

But how did he connect it to Washington?

[@tortle734]

@@FZ69420 from one of his ancestors marrying one of mine

[@FZ69420]

@@tortle734 technically, one of my ancestors married one of Napoleon's

[@Weeee439]

using ancestry, I found i’m descended from 4 Scottish kings and countless chiefs of clan Mackenzie. I’m also descended from “Dainty Davie,” a Scottish reverend who fled the law and had 7 wives. He had my distant grandma with his third wife while on the run, sneaking into her house for a quick visit. They then made a song about him because of it. Truly noble ancestry indeed

[@frenzy5391]

How did you do that?

[@Weeee439]

@@frenzy5391 initially, all I had to do was fill out the part of my tree that I already knew, then ancestry did the potential mother/father thing. All I would do is look to see if the details matched with the person I already added and then approve. Using this, at some point I found someone with an interesting name, William Mackenzie the 1st of Belmaduthy. I researched him and his family and the using sources online filled out his part of my tree manually, of course checking to make sure there wasn't any logical discrepancies (luckily since they were more historically significant, the records were better. Turns out his family was the rulers of clan Mackenzie, and the clan is deeply tied with many early Scottish royals, and after a bit of searching, I found ones that I'm actually descended from. My 31st great grandfather is Malcom the second, and his father, Grandfather, and great grandfather were all kings.

[@Cons3]

I have Ancestry and didn’t have that luck

[@Weeee439]

@@Cons3 sorry to hear that

[@marquisdelafayette-xe1ht]

How do you trace back your family tree like that on Ancestry?

[@tinalettieri]

I know I am of noble descent. My grandfather was the last baron in the family line because my father died before him and my uncle wasn't interested. He'd become too Americanized. My grandfather went as far back as the early 17th Century when doing the family tree. I have been to our ancestral home twice in my life, the most recent time just last month so I know what our true family crest is because it's on the house and I have pictures. This is important because it contains the Habsburg motto and my grandfather said there was a connection but not what it was. I know that that was a great benefit the Imperial family bestowed and we would have had to have permission to use it. I just don't know the reason for why it was given. It could be a prince or princess of the collateral line marrying one of my ancestors or some great service we performed for them. I have not been able to find this connection.

[@Z3N1TY0]

I’m not that fortunate when it comes to last name research. I’ve honestly only found great x grandparents with literally nothing I could find about them (for free, at least) and the earliest I’ve traced is the very late 19th - very early 20th century and that’s just when said great x grandparents were born. Most of my knowledge about my family comes from my relatives. Though I DO have a badass relative story- my great great grandpa (moms side) miraculously survived D-Day and killed a German soldier with his bare hands. Learned this from mom

[@masonhirovanaa2281]

Holy shit that's metal bro. Awesome 👍

[@Z3N1TY0]

Let me add something: Outside of this, he lived in a small Iowa town and he ran a popcorn stand later

[@Z3N1TY0]

@@A-rawr That’s still badass A story like yours can be kinda rare and your relatives were criminals therefore it is indeed badass