How To Tell Who Your Ancestors Were

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@warujr]

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

[@ZacharySeals]

You just got that off whakapedia

[@NaEul_3]

wow, i wish i have that.

[@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

[@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]

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[@suekarlov4908]

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

[@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

[@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?

[@weejackrussell]

I am the same as your dad, it's a gripping hobby. I now have to put a timer on to restrict how much time I spend on family history. But it's fascinating and I have found a whole host of famous people and, with DNA matches now have a massive tree. I have watched this video and written this in addition to my daily timed dose of DNA match investigations!

[@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...

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@Baptized_in_Fire.]

Beats a slave colony

[@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?

[@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.

[@PinkLyfe69]

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

[@Toby-vl2ug]

WHERE IS CHARLES LEE

[@Takezhu88]

Toby sigh

[@Darkshadow-ll8ge]

@@Toby-vl2ug 😂

[@ROXSTARcandy]

Welcome to the club

[@bobsburgers8497]

Me an African American: lol prolly

[@ejtack]

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

[@Kureemy]

Wait, so the people those two were related to somehow met and fell in love with each other? If so, then that’s funny considering the fact that Hamilton and Burr had a duel, and also that popular musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

[@ejtack]

yep

[@higherview136]

Cool !

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.😊

[@Wog68]

Yep, only mother knows who your father is.

[@floycewhite6991]

​@@Wog68The type that play around often do not know which.

[@Wog68]

@@floycewhite6991still better than others who assume entitlement to decide who.😂

[@floycewhite6991]

@@Wog68 My woman feels entitled to sole ownership and exclusive use of my reproductive functions. And she's right. I feel entitled to the same of her. "Open relationships" adultery never works and hurts the children most of all.

[@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

[@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*

[@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?

[@coronavirusokboomer9537]

The Night Watcher wow..well Im not gonna do all that crap

[@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 😂

[@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

[@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)

[@woodchuck003]

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

[@HVLLOW99]

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.

[@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.

[@shnoopydoopy6707]

Kid in 2nd grade: iM ReLatEd tO GeOrGe WaSHinGtoN

[@willowhicks6824]

@KethanGamerHD for real 😂😂😂

[@buttoxchewy]

shnoopy doopy real shit what If you really are tho ?

[@_DMNO_]

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

[@unovasfinest2623]

vegetariansteak I'd support this 👀

[@shnoopydoopy6707]

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

[@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.

[@gard86]

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

[@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.

[@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 .

[@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.

[@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

[@HVLLOW99]

I too descend from Reconquista-ing Caballos!

[@HVLLOW99]

DEVS VULT

[@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. 👍

[@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

[@joyekii]

Except that you aren't your own ancestor

[@michaelpopup]

@@dutchman7623 popup isn't my real last name

[@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?

[@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?

[@frankfrankly8764]

Another reason you see cousins marrying, especially in early times of America is the communities were small and travel wasn’t as easy as we’re accustomed to. Many people have been doing all the genealogy legwork. Fascinating to trace your family tree.

[@weejackrussell]

I have found that Puritans in New England and Dutch settlers in what is now New York, seem to have intermarried a great deal.

[@foxxy-3748]

The great thing about going back to look for your ancestors is: The population of the world at the time goes much, much smaller the farther back you go. You’re more likely to be related to someone the further back you go.

[@Chevsilverado]

Also the fact that royals are much much much more likely to survive compared to peasants back then.

[@timotheuso9904]

Go back far enough and everyone's related lol

[@evanfiend]

@@timotheuso9904 False

[@timotheuso9904]

@@evanfiend not false

[@TheSultan1470]

@@timotheuso9904 Fight, both of you

[@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

[@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

[@JacksonBlack0706]

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!

[@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.**

[@山本五十六-u3b]

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

[@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

[@JoeNka-rl8eh]

Yes, i am descended of lower nobility from my mom’s side of family in Slovakia. They were landowners from about the early 1600s. The village my mom was from had 5 noble families and she’s related to all 5. Her grandma was born with the title of nobilis. The title given to the generic lower nobility of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

[@MakuluRihihi]

Nice I’m a direct descendant of William the Conqueror

[@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

[@DamonNomad82]

The weirdest ancestor I've found so far in researching my genealogy was Pope Gregory XIII, namesake of the Gregorian Calendar. Apparently, he had an illegitimate son before he was elected Pope, and used his influence in the Church to get his son made a powerful nobleman. His son married a noblewoman who was descended from the Medici family that ruled Tuscany at the time. One of their descendants had to leave Italy in a hurry, and decided Holland was a great place to hide. He married a Dutch wife, and they moved to New Amsterdam. They decided to stay there when the English conquered it and renamed it "New York"...

[@rubynibs]

His son wasn't given much status, he worked for it. Pope Gregory wasn't one for nepotism. Seems he lost everything not long afterwards. Have you got the documentation -- the paper trail -- for his line? It could make for an interesting book, or at least an article.

[@DamonNomad82]

@@rubynibs I do have the data (digitally, as my research was online), but one can only reveal so much of it while still preserving anonymity. After the first few generations, contemporary historians' interest in the line waned, as they became more "common", and less information is available on them. From the mid 1600s to the late 1800s, all I've really been able to find are names, birth and death dates, and marriage records.

[@typicalperson6389]

How are ya’ll finding this?

[@evanfiend]

@@typicalperson6389 Google searches and late night weed-smoking.

[@asuuuuuuuaaaaaaaa]

@@evanfiend lmao

[@TheLostOne172]

Aperently in related to a rich nigerian prince that is stranded in the desert and needs 400$ of bitcoin to get home so he can pay me many times back. So bow to me peseants!

[@erikhaar490]

Yo me too. Are we cousins?

[@DrChris1]

Same but he said he needs 100,000. We must be like cousins.

[@Chichi0013]

Umm no

[@karentucker2161]

Same with my mom, I just inherited the body shape more so than anything

[@PaTrick-cf6ev]

@Patricia Palmer bless your soul.

[@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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Thomas_Houston]

Well Hello there!

[@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?

[@myismidas]

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

[@luvee659]

@Ratko Mladic Farquud

[@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

[@malahamavet]

Well... i'm romanian, that means my ancestors were Romulus, Dracula, Ghengis Khan, And maybe, just maybe, Kratos. I'm still waiting the laboratory to confirm the last one but i'm sure of it because to get from Greece to Scandinavia he had to cross Romania. And we all know he can't keep it on his pants/skirt

[@dayalasingh5853]

Vlad Dracula Tepes of Targoviste.

[@ioana8661]

Well I'm probably realted to Vlad Țepeș because I'm from Târgoviște.

[@dayalasingh5853]

@@ioana8661 probably

[@ijp789]

Pfffd kratos, im related with thanos

[@Murgablodazor69]

Im Hungarian so i am not gonna argue on Vlad, but i got..uhh...arguably Attila the Hun!

[@sundayze]

Was doing research yesterday and made good links to The Lord of Baltimore in 1600's Maryland. Really interesting story and great documentation led me to the connection. Recently made a match to an early New York City mayor. Most of my ancestors were just the ones blazing trails in the Cumberland Mountains, Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers, Texas freedom fighters, farmers and railroad bosses. Most of my direct line ancestors came to America between 1630-1750. I could be a DAR fifty times over. I've been doing the research since 1995 and all I can say is that its gotten easier to find records and way more expensive. I haven't even researched in Europe yet. I have almost 400 years in America to finish, lol!

[@George-bi8sj]

I'm also researching my family tree and found an ancestor called Cheney who moved from Berkshire, UK to Maryland, US. I thought it may have been a mistake as I still live in England. But researching further found that he fled to the US during the English Civil War because he was a Royalist, some of his children however stayed here in England, which makes a bit more sense now.

[@fox_2312]

I'm descended from Gary Foxley my dad who set a farm on fire in 1974 in Yorkshire

[@sirarthurofwinterfell282]

My Dads Side of the Family ruled over that area

[@lilwater7358]

@@sirarthurofwinterfell282 xD

[@torbjrnlund903]

I'm descended from Alfred the Great, King of England. 🤴

[@seanmcguire7974]

I'm descended from a long line of alcoholics n degenerate gamblers on my fathers side.

[@mementotomato7141]

@@sirarthurofwinterfell282 lol

[@TheInstinctWithinV2]

In the case of Scandinavians, ours are far more obvious. "Sigurdsson", "Steffansson", or if you were a true legend "Ragnarsson". Personally, I'm a descendant of one "Ulrik"

[@GammaFZ]

you're a descendant of the shittiest drummer that existed

[@azatchi9737]

@@GammaFZ come on he’s not that bad😂

[@SurosNova]

@@GammaFZ Lars is NOT that bad

[@MundusTransit]

im ivar

[@Palivox]

ULFRIC STORMCLOAK

[@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 :(

[@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!

[@drnpictures2155]

My great grandmother had a very large book keeping our family history from the 1600s onward she donated it to a museum a very long time ago. My family came over from England in the 1920s so 80 something years before I was born. So turns out that on my mother’s side I have a very noble lineage I am a descendant of William Penn and all of his children John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville Thomas Fermor 1st Earl Pomfret Ect So that’s interesting I was hyped when I found that out lol.

[@Wadiyatalkinabeet_]

Pretty neat! My Great Aunt did the same thing, and has handed the book down to me being the historian now of the family. It even started recording my family history around the same time as your’s, in the 1600s. Well, the mid 1690s. So not really, and it’s only history of my family of when we arrived in America, (we’ve been here for that long and in the same state and same part of the state too), never once does it brush up on the European side of the families history. We came from Ireland and were apparent nobles. We were some sort of stewards. Either keeping records for the Kings court or running one of his properties. Or some sort of nobility. I’d love to research more on it, visit Ireland, Scotland and England one day. Where the families roots originate. I know we also have some Norman in us. We fled in the 1690s, as I stated. I think we fled from Cornwall.

[@w花b]

Time to claim what's yours

[@_________________142]

You should check to see if you have any land or properties of significance to claim

[@justarandomperson979]

@@w花b what claim?

[@randommf3549]

Apoco si tilín

[@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!

[@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

[@loerre]

Me watching this as a Turkish, whose ancestors had no surname at all until 1934: 👁️👄👁️

[@supermarioglitchy10]

facts, I'm turk as well

[@UnhealthySweetCandy]

Aga bizim işimiz kolay eğer Marmara/Ege/Batı Akdeniz bölgesinden isen Avrupa (büyük ihtimalle Yunan)-Türk karışımı bir soyun vardır. Karadeniz bölgesinden isen Gürcistan veya Kafkasya bölgesi-Türk karışımı bir soyun vardır. İç Anadolu bölgesinden isen muhtemelen Dna'n fazla değişmemiştir ve Asyada olduğumuz zamanlara kadar uzanabilir. Doğu-Güneydoğu Anadolu/Doğu Akdeniz bölgesinden isen Türk dna'n muhtemelen azdır ve Orta Doğu'ya dayanır soyun -Kudüs'ten akrabaların bile olabilir-. Umarım yardımcı olmuştur 🤠🤠🤠

[@arcen3169]

I dunno how to tell if you're descended from nobility, but I do know that with a last name that roughly translates to "of the turnip" I'm probably not.

[@michaelthompson7217]

Arcen maybe they invented the turnip

[@LEO_M1]

Michael Thompson Ay, that's the spirit.

[@Pyro-Moloch]

maybe the turnip was the coat of arms

[@robertkopp873]

Turnip is a noble edible plant. Salut.

[@haleynicoledance]

thats hilarious lol be proud

[@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

[@راميالبنّى-ك4ذ]

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.

[@persianjew1746]

As someone distantly related to Romulus founder of Rome *GET THE SWORD AND FIND REMUS*

[@odinarkenstone4709]

persian jew I am Remus: )

[@paprikaa117]

Your name and this comment is giving me mixed vibes

[@k.s.7034]

I am also descended from Romulus

[@belle369]

I don’t even know who I’m related to. My family did a Ancesstory DNA test and I can’t even remember who I was related to so it must not be important

[@user-eo6ou6rh1v]

_deus vult_

[@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

[@aaronseet2738]

"surnames" Well, a lot of central/South American and Filipino families are gonna be confused they weren't descended from Portugal/Spain.

[@NikeTubeStudios]

Researching my Dad's side of the family is so hard because my grandfather is Filipino and I can't find anything about his parents despite my Dad's claim that my great grandfather is Spaniard. There's no telling if by fact we are Spaniard because it's just word of mouth.

[@Caralaza]

Most Central and South Americans are mestizo or white (like in Argentina), so they will actually have Spanish and Portuguese ancestors. Unlike in the U.S., interracial marriage was extremely popular in Ibero-America. Full-blooded Indigenous people are pretty rare in comparison. Philippines is a different story though.

[@Mikelaxo]

Actually Latin Americans have a lot of Portuguese and Spanish heritage, as well as Africa and native American, I say it as a Latin American myself

[@aaronseet2738]

@@Mikelaxo Yes I'm sure a lot of citizens in South America have European ancestry, that's not a probem per se. But have the families who've maintained pure ancestry from natives managed to retain their traditional family names?

[@Mikelaxo]

@@aaronseet2738 Well I don't know a lot about that since I'm from a country where natives were abolished by colonizers, so I'm not very familiar with Native American heritage

[@narcotic702]

Me as a Somalian after watching this video: “I am the rightful heir to the throne of England!!!”

[@oshb5559]

Only England not the rest of the Britain and the Commonwealth lol

[@septemberviral]

How are you somali but spell it somalian? come on now lol

[@firestarthndrclan1261]

I'm descended from the Celtic Druids and royalty so if the romans hadn't almost massacred our people I honestly might have sat upon a throne in Europe even today so I kind of hate/admire the romans so long story short if the Celts hadn't been massacred we would have ruled quite a bit of europe

[@septemberviral]

@@firestarthndrclan1261 that’s dope!!

[@bethbartlett5692]

😁 😂😂😂

[@ninmat]

On average, most people should have far more nobility in their lineage than would be represented in the population. Why? Because status and wealth gives a higher chance of reproductive success. Lines that died out were more likely to be poor. Repeat this over many generations, and you'll have a lot of people who can claim having historical figures as ancestors.

[@zarsiw]

he literally said that in the video

[@nelsonsanchez3110]

oh please, there were more peasants as it is today. so chances are almost 0%, your mentality is do because in our modern days we have racial profiling, in the days of your ancestors mostly everyone have the color of the land they were born in, the rich and the poor were all white blue eyes, green eyes red hair ?

[@o-o2399]

@@nelsonsanchez3110 white people had there own nobility .

[@codyroh7246]

Yeah, if you look into it, a lot of the nobility had close to, if not over, a dozen kids, some of whom had close to a dozen kids themselves; repeat that over even a few centuries and there are bound to be a substantial amount of descendants they have.

[@bhaveerathod2373]

It’s so crazy because at any point in time in history, during every single natural disaster, every war, every famine, every genocide or massacre, at ANY point in time, EVERY single person in your bloodline had to survive in order for you to live. If your maternal grandmother, 1 of 4 grandparents -died you wouldn’t live. If just one of your great-great grandparent, 1 of 32 died, you wouldn’t live. Keep going back generations, you realize how it had to line up in such an exact way, for so many people, just for you to be here right now. So many people had to not die during some of humanity’s darkest times for you to be here right now.

[@drperkyreal4686]

I remember my mom looking at her ancestry thing and saw that her 25th great grandfather was King Malcolm III of Scotland. So I guess I am descendent of royalty. Edit: also apparently I’m direct descendant of Ragnar Loðbrok, however I don’t know if there was an error in the records.

[@injetavel279]

Aren't you married to Hega the drip?

[@drperkyreal4686]

@@injetavel279 why yes, yes I am

[@keithlemon457]

Hey, we are related ! Do you have King Kenneth ll in your tree ? Data on the Internet takes you back to Adam and Eve, I guess that's the end of the trail..............

[@eamonlyons8318]

I have Dal Riatan kings and Irish high kings in my bloodline

[@Bob-fh4ht]

@@injetavel279 Who is Hega the drip lol

[@dangray1362]

lol king john was considered to be the worst English monarch of all time.

[@Stephen-jx1hz]

Monty the red Yes he was, but that title now belongs to the current Queen.

[@dangray1362]

@@Stephen-jx1hz how? Seriously how is she worse than King John

[@Stephen-jx1hz]

Future historians will not treat her kindly. John lost some lands in France. She lost an empire. John considered converting to Islam. During her reign the country got cuckold by them. Johns reign produced the Magna Carta. QE2s reign produced a police state, undermining the will of the people. Winston Churchill argued that "When the long tally is added, it will be seen that the British nation and the English-speaking world owe far more to the vices of John than to the labours of virtuous sovereigns".

[@ccvcharger]

@@Stephen-jx1hz technnically speaking, Queen Elizabeth II is still recognized as the sovereign over most of the Common Wealth nations, which still grants her the largest sphere of influence held by any monarch at present. Meanwhile the United Kingdom under her rule still remains as an economic and military powerhouse, and relations with former British possessions are at an all time high.

[@MA-yu2ss]

Stephen Du Plessis what exactly is bad about converting to Islam?

[@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

[@sharleenehurst4250]

I already did a lot of my genealogy. It has lead me to believe that anyone alive today is probably descended from nobles who lived in the 14, 15, and 16th centuries. They were the ones who survived the wars, plagues and famines.

[@korzenpl]

If your family was around for longer, there propably are some sources in local libraries Me, living in Polish 'recovered territory' : bruh

[@brextek]

F dude

[@mariearchambeault145]

How do I look up records in other countries???

[@k.umquat8604]

My mother's grandparents were refugees. My father's, immigrants. So, no, local libraries don't help

[@chadwick8193]

I wonder how much Germans in East Germany come from Germanized Polish/baltic peoples.

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

@@chadwick8193 Well Germany at all. Modern Eastgermany lays on territory that has been slav too, but really far back. The pre WW2 Eastgermany has of course more links to slavs. After the war the eastgermans fled or were deported, so they spread their slavgenes all over Germany. My grandfather for example was a German born in Silesia, his family then fled to Hessia, we now live near Frankfurt. So it's not only Eastgermany. But as far as I know my grandfather had no close slavic ancestors. His father (German too) even came from Russia, but there were settlements with german majority, so who knows, maybe they were not slav at all? Also there is a "sorbic" (I don't know their english name, so I assumed it) minority living in Eastgermany, those are the real slavs.

[@gyalsnextman4725]

My grandparents did a family tree thing and pain £1000 to find out my grandmas side as they were both adopted during the war and it turned out that somewhere in the 1790/1800 a person from Sweden moved to Scotland and started a family which the guy turned out to be part of the Swedish royal family and left the country for an unknown reason leaving the throne and family behind to start a normal life

[@Pollicina_db]

Wow, it sounds like a typical royal drama. Really cool😁

[@l2516]

They should make a movie about this

[@Whitegirllover101]

I want to know my family tree too damn

[@gyalsnextman4725]

@@vgpkevin2900 there are lots of people with your second name a google search will not prove your from a Noble background until you get a dna test and even that will only go back to 1500s unless you had really good research people do to it for you

[@gyalsnextman4725]

@@Whitegirllover101 I don’t know how my auntie found the one for £1000 but it went very far back the noble side of my family is my grandmas side as she’s got a Scottish second name due to them moving from Sweden to Scotland but I’m half African so my dads side could be a huge background, I’m really intrigued with heritage and family if you find yours out lemme know.

[@panman5194]

You amateurs I am the descended of Mother Earth herself.

[@SupremeIntentionCrew]

Cringe

[@tententononce2570]

@@SupremeIntentionCrew No u

[@hareth-2850]

Director Krennic man said “Mother Earth herself” you mean Allah sbwt

[@thebiggestoofbob]

* surprised Pikachu face * [everyone liked that]

[@keishacampbell6538]

FALSE

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

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.

[@VoidRDM]

”Use your lastname” - Scandinavians use/used a patronymic naming system...

[@ariliussmariorrason1798]

Yeah Icelandic here, not sure what to do...

[@gavinosullivan2268]

Hello son of nils

[@Murgablodazor69]

Is it like Johnson Carl?

[@gghhhuiithjihfft6826]

@@ariliussmariorrason1798 Try using church documents. You can also easily trace descent through land inheritance.

[@ennisdelmar807]

My last name is Karlsson, and so is my dad's and his dad's. But noone is our family is named Karl execpt my brother XD. So my question is, back in the day did they just name their children after the father changing it every generation like: Ragnar Karlsson > Magnus Ragnarsson > Karl Magnusson.

[@Pri-ze7fv]

My grandma’s last name is Barbosa, all I can think about is Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean

[@countgeekula3046]

You probably have portuguese ancestors, you're maybe a descendant of Agostinho Barbosa (1589-1649) or Aires de Figueiredo Barbosa (1470-1540)

[@Lukaszren]

@@countgeekula3046 Or Maybe he has an Ancestor that discovered the Barbary Coast i.e. North Africa And some relation to Beerbers or Berbers on The Coast of Africa.... Or Maybe you came from a Rich Trader i predict...

[@BPGM1989]

Its portuguese, however it may not be from a ethnic portuguese, sephardic jews used portuguese names and migrated all over the world passing as portuguese catholics. Africans from portuguese colonies also used portuguese names.

[@Pri-ze7fv]

Primeiro Último the Portuguese colonized Brasil, which is where I’m from, I wouldn’t be surprised if my ancestors are from there, but Barbosa is my grandmother from my fathers side, my grandma from my mothers side says her grandfather was from Poland, and he married her grandmother who was Brazilian, but she doesn’t remember his last name so there’s no way of confirming

[@mouadgranderson9618]

Zuko’s Honor maybe your uncle is Edson barbosa lol

[@johnt3606]

Imagine if you were an important man in a noble n rich family just to some of your descendants use KZbin and nickname theirselves "XxMINEGAMERxX"

[@tanusree4124]

or perhaps name themselves with idiotic names like johnTgamer

[@shadysam7161]

@@tanusree4124 hey your name is not that good either

[@cloudthesheep]

wHaT aBoUt mY NaMe

[@sutomuarashi]

ROFL

[@kotbro7098]

Sup bro

[@JosephsCoat]

It’s fun to see exactly how it comes together. I know William the Conqueror is my 32nd great grandfather and also my 29th great grandfather through another line. Then again, he’s also one of your great grandfathers lol

[@PerryDouglas-v5h]

I recently discovered I’m descended from Sherwood’s and it peaked my interests in learning more.

[@R0dolphus]

Last name: sounds like Finnish name. Family tree: *French*

[@robertcuminale1212]

Some Finns and Norwegians and Swedes went to France after Normandy was created. Normandy is Old French for North Men. Some Vikings settled in Scotland and the Islands. Scotland was a long time partner with France. Queen Mary married France's Francis and was Queen of France until his death. She returned to Scotland became a refugee in England and ended up on Elizabeth's chopping block.

[@Simpocaralho]

@@SOULAANI_ Indian and Japanese, what an impressive name.

[@SOULAANI_]

@@Simpocaralho oh no this profile isn't my actual name its just a name of someone from an anime i like

[@Simpocaralho]

@@SOULAANI_ Yes, i am aware. I was just trying to say something funny.

[@ofimportance5458]

@@SOULAANI_ That makes sense. Last name from slavery and first name from ireland could be tyrone. This is to give you more job opportunities lmao. My first name is Unique but last name from slavery.

[@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

[@tarionmarsden157]

My grammar teacher's husband is related to Bram Stoker. THE Author of Dracula. Hence my grammar teacher is ms. Stoker

[@MrGoocherson]

Bram Stokers mum lived a few miles from where I'm sitting.

[@jollyj273]

Tarion Marsden That is pretty cool! 👍

[@MrE2raHV]

My Ancenstors have come from various places, (Dads side) Soctland, Wales, England, Yorkshire, Denmark, (Moms side) Native american, Italian, spanish, Baleric

[@LeI8400]

My ancestor from my dad side came from Yemen and from my Mom side from Saudi Arabia

[@goblinbabe]

The only people who have my last name in the U.S are my family. There’s actually nobody else. The three other people we found online with our same last name ended up being related to us.

[@NO-wn4vg]

Sweet home alabama.

[@Woletat]

King crimson has erased time

[@anakinr3138]

@@Woletat that ain't how King Crimson works

[@ronimausanti9625]

Would be cool to search for that name in whatever country your ancestors came from. Maybe it was adjusted to English spelling as well

[@ZecaPinto1]

I used to think the same about one of my surnames. Until someone told me they knew a person with the same surname but unrelated to my family

[@Willy_Tepes]

If you have a uncommon surname, it is much easier to trace your family.

[@ashleyhicks7664]

Fuck mine is lee

[@BallsRollProjects]

@@ashleyhicks7664 mine is balljohn

[@ashleyhicks7664]

@@BallsRollProjects i just feel bad man

[@BallsRollProjects]

@@ashleyhicks7664 for your name or mine?

[@ashleyhicks7664]

@@BallsRollProjects both man

[@therealzakii6569]

Me: *is born in italy* Me: maybe I have the same genes as Giulius Ceasar My algerian family: *allow us to introduce ourselves*

[@bigmancanty7039]

Porca Puthanos tf is Guilius Ceasar

[@Thedreamer9999910]

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ WTF?? r u srs??

[@bigmancanty7039]

GreenProudBoi are you being sarcastic but i was making a joke dumbass

[@jiyzo]

@@bigmancanty7039 julius Caesar Adopted a calendar that we still use today

[@bigmancanty7039]

Jiyzo he didnt implement the gregorian calendar, he influenced 2 monthes, please get your facts right

[@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

[@Jehty_]

Your grandma lived in the early 1600s? 😯

[@youngrumandcoke]

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

[@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'

[@llamas5278]

Everyone: NO WAY MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS A KING Me: I literally cant find any of my ancestors 😢

[@Sof1a510]

But I am sure you know who your mum and dad is it would be silly to not know them

[@llamas5278]

The Champ 5 haha I guess you’re right and i was able to find out my great grandpa was a soldier in the mexican revolution he also was an important figure in his town thats what i heard

[@Sof1a510]

@@llamas5278 That's interesting my great grandpa was a soldier in the Crimean War

[@llamas5278]

The Champ 5 thats cool :)

[@robinkozusnik8425]

@@Sof1a510 Imagine being adopted.

[@alexmontgomery255]

I couldn’t understand why I had Arabic ancestry in my DNA until I remembered that I had Spanish ancestors and the Moors occupied the Iberian peninsula for some 800 years.

[@europeanisraelite8913]

Deus Vult!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@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.