Matt Baker Family Tree

[@UsefulCharts]

I created the following template in case you want to make your own family tree in the "UsefulCharts" style shown in this video: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1835/6621/files/family-tree-template.odg You can download it for free. It's a LibreOffice Draw file. I did a tutorial on it a few weeks ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3PYnWBmn82Gfac

[@freeunderratedmusic4273]

Lol, what a coincidence! I was just about to look for one of your videos to find this link, but I guess that's not necessary anymore.

[@adammoore7059]

Hey thanks for sharing about your family I'm big into genealogy are you an only child or do you have siblings?

[@adammoore7059]

Could you do one on my distant cousin's family? His family came from England

[@adammoore7059]

@BaumGlory Hell no! ...I was talking to Matt from useful charts ...you are not him ...I don't know you I'm not going to give you the names ....if Matt wants to talk to me or if you are him and can prove it then I'll work with you

[@RaymondAlexisPuentes90-70-100]

Thank you! I'd like to do something like this for my own family tree.

[@rina123456]

So, I started watching this video with the thought, "Oh, a fellow Canadian is showing some of their family tree, how interesting", then Nova Scotia came up and I sat up a little straighter, "Oh wow," I'm thinking, "He has genealogical roots in my province! I wonder if he's Nova Scotian himself. This is hitting pretty close to home, youtube videos never do that". Then the name Johannes Becker comes up and everything screeches to a halt. For you see, my good sir, I know that name very well. Johannes Becker is my 6x great-grandfather through his son John Jacob (1752-1813) down to my mother and then to me. So, we are distant cousins, and my mind just broke a little bit. I REALLY want to pick your brain on our mutual line. So hello from your distant cousin and fan in Colchester, Nova Scotia.

[@UsefulCharts]

Hi cousin! Feel free to email me. It's matt at usefulcharts dot com.

[@Paul-px7jh]

You guys are fifth cousins, two times removed. :)

[@Ushankhuru]

Lol I guess I'm not the only one who found a distant cousin. Oh rural nova Scotia...

[@QemeH]

Are you sure, it's the same Johannes Becker? That's not exactly an uncommon name in germany...

[@romanparisi5503]

That's so cool....How you guys get to share info

[@jasoncowley4718]

Matt, you literally own an island! Sir Matt of Big Tancook, House of Baker.

[@Pfsif]

Duke of Earl .

[@chidoman1595]

Long may he reign!

[@lodestarlondon8850]

@James Matt King of Big Cook

[@heater1237]

You better go to Big Tancook now, Charts.

[@BuckChongus]

He sounds like he has a pretty good claim!

[@MalachiCo0]

All hail Matt of house Baker, High King of Tancook Island!

[@octaviusroosevelt7355]

MalachiCo0 Someone out there please make a national anthem for Tancook Island called "God Save the Baker Dynasty" or something like that.

[@edronnpanti6679]

can someone make an anthem for this

[@realhawaii5o]

When you do a DNA test and get 100% Iberian and you still live in Iberia. GG

[@iniudan]

By 100% Iberian what do you exactly mean? As Iberia kind of one of the largest ancient melting pot of DNA outside of West Asia. Do you mean actual ancient Iberian DNA? That would be unusual as all hell considering how many conquerors and migrants went over the East cost of Iberia. Ancient Iberian DNA would be easy to identify as it would stick out like Basque DNA, been also a pre-Indo-European.

[@junkbucket50]

I'm English/Scottish still living there and got 91% England+Scotland for my DNA test

[@StarLord_2307]

Incest

[@dyread]

@@StarLord_2307 Hardly incest when there's millions of people living in Spain and Portugal.

[@StarLord_2307]

@@dyread no dont you know that everybody has atleast some bit of foreign blood in them

[@ChrisStargazer]

This ranks as one of my most favorite of all your videos because of how personal it is. Everyone has a story; so glad you told yours (or at least part of it).

[@UsefulCharts]

Thanks Chris. Next week Hawaii!

[@jackiecozzie4803]

@sleepy • 16 years ago it's his specific ancestry

[@cypriencoon8744]

One of those Cajuns here! Nearly 60% of my ancestors are Acadians, and genealogy also allowed me to learn I'm a descendant of both Beausoleil Broussard and his brother!

[@bubb5225]

HormChaoui lessez le bon temps roule!

[@JohnJohn-ls2uz]

I am descended from his sister

[@ekvedrek]

*hold up*

[@moondust2365]

@@ekvedrek It's basically not incest but kinda. XD Kinda like two of my grandparents, actually.

[@ekvedrek]

There’s no KINDA about it.

[@GeneaVlogger]

63 years old and fighting fires, even for today that is a pretty amazing accomplishment. Your 2nd-great grandfather Edward Condon must have been one tough guy!

[@rukminikrishna1938]

He died in the explosion aged 63

[@noorbohamad5796]

@nmoney6655how nice that your mother’s a grandmother now I’m happy and glad for her

[@hampusandersson5730]

”Like anyone else, I have eight great-grandparents”, *laughs in Alabama

[@iraq4855]

Not evrey one have eghit great grandparents .

[@Barc112]

*laughs in Casterly Rock*

[@ekvedrek]

*laughs in Habsburg*

[@mia-gj5xq]

They do you biologically have 2 parents and they each have 2 parents and then they have 2 parents too which are your great grandparents even if you don’t know them you still biologically have them

[@ekvedrek]

Mia cousins and siblings exist

[@kylielandry4098]

What a great video! I am also a descendent of Johannes Becker and Moses Levy. My great-grandmother was a Levy that was born and raised on Tancook. It is so nice to get more information on the stories and history of how these ancestors ended up in Tancook!

[@nemeczek67]

I am a direct descendant of Adam and Eve. Beat that.

[@hardinarthandsyach328]

Underrated

[@adammoore7059]

So am I 🙂

[@netajithevar296]

If only the Bible stories were real.

[@adammoore7059]

@@netajithevar296 they are real

[@netajithevar296]

@@adammoore7059 sure... except that there is no scientific proof.

[@adc4836]

Imagine doing this and finding out it’s in a straight line

[@Nahasapasa]

Well the odds of having 64 unique G-G-G-G-Grandparents is quite low in Nova Scotia

[@ericabeatson6809]

1 of the more interesting migration stories in my family is one of my Great-great-grandmothers came to Canada through Barnardo Homes. One of the many British Charities that sent orphaned or abandoned kids from Great Britain to Canada

[@IowaKim]

While doing my tree I stumbled upon two great-uncles who were sent to Canada as Home children. They were my dad's uncles. My dad had immigrated from England to the US in 1954. Since my dad was from England I did not expect any relatives here in the New World on his side. I found over a hundred relatives living a four hour drive from me. We have reconnected and one first cousin once removed looks remarkably like my father. the two great-uncles lives were pretty hard, and their mother was alive she just apparently could not take care of the children after her husband abandoned her.

[@IowaKim]

@@norlofthor7088 my father passed away in 1988 at the age of 70 oh, and I never knew about his uncle's being sent to Canada. The two uncles have passed and it was their children that I've reconnected with. Their mother was alive when they were sent to Canada but the father had a abandoned in the family.

[@-_-1665]

My parents migrated from poland in 2004

[@jlibra3134]

Still waiting for my dad to come back home from the grocery store where he's been missing for 14 years

[@Pfsif]

He'll be back soon.

[@FaaduProductions]

Oh

[@jlibra3134]

Dad！What takes you so long there？

[@FaaduProductions]

@@jlibra3134 milk truk just arrive

[@victormezynski9727]

He's a KZbinr now

[@rwolfheart6580]

This has me itching to work on my family tree again. I have an Irish line that's been a dead end so far--they immigrated recently enough that there's census records, but my furthest ancestor has a super common name and I haven't been able to trace which part of Ireland he was from or exactly when he immigrated. Meanwhile, the only thing stopping me from going further with my French ancestors is that Ancestry won't let me see the church records in France without a subscription!

[@lozpio]

Emily Payeur please, tell me about some of you’re French ancestors. I’m able to research families outside of the U.S.

[@casewhite5048]

family search is a great way to get around that

[@MF-sy5ty]

Most (like 90%) of French church records are online and available for free on the archives site of each French department actually. So there's really no point in paying an Ancestry subscription.

[@RandomPerson-py8yi]

I can help you with your french ancestry if you want!

[@noorbohamad5796]

@@RandomPerson-py8yihow nice? thoughtful?

[@BarryWillBuck]

All of my great grandparents have very different stories. My dad's dad's dad could trace most of his ancestry to Great Britain through the New England colonies, my dad's dad's mom could trace most of her ancestry back to Germany through Pennsylvania, my dad's mom's dad was born in Sicily and part of the wave of new immigrants that came through Ellis Island, my dad's mom's mom could trace her ancestry to the Netherlands and Belgium through the New Amsterdam settlement in New York. All of my mom's grandparents came to Wisconsin. My mom's dad's parents trace most of their ancestry back to Switzerland, my mom's mom's dad traces his ancestry back to Norway, and my mom's mom's mom traces her ancestry back to Switzerland and Germany. ...after all that I call myself a South Carolinian. My friends say I am not a southern boi

[@jimbusmapping9177]

When you mentioned Wisconsin it became all over for you my guy... as Yankee as you can get

[@BarryWillBuck]

@@jimbusmapping9177 what?

[@i.pezzotti853]

I’m Puerto Rican, my father is Italian, my mother French, my mother is one fourth English and one fourth Italian as well, my father’s mother was American who was a German-Portuguese-Spanish descendant, my maternal grandmother was half Irish half Spanish and according to ancestry I also have Egyptian, Turkish, Greek, Israeli and Belgium. Holy shit what a mix.

[@TheBoyer19]

My great great grandparents came to Canada during the Ukrainian famine With no money and had to work as farm hands for 10 years until they could afford a small 1 room house with 7 kids

[@UkrainePatr1ot]

Cool, i'm from Ukraine!

[@mg222.]

Thanks for sharing! I love hearing the stories involved with any family tree. My family name is actually Acadian with me being a direct descendant of the first family to settle on PEI.

[@Aarontlondon]

I found out I have ancestors with surname Levy when exploring my genealogy, and also saw that I have distant Jewish ancestry when I did a 23andMe test, so I think you may have provided me with a link. Thanks!

[@angryyoungman66]

great for you, you're lucky you have a knowledge of your ancestors I only know as far as my grandparents that's it ,I don't even know their birthdates i know only their names , it's a shame

[@razzmatazz1974]

Very interesting! Im currently working on my genealogy so i find this fascinating

[@Barc112]

1:53 Not everyone has eight great-grandparents. Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen Baratheon only have four.

[@Ari33sa]

yeah four great grandparents and... only six great great grandparents...

[@arandomyorkshireman9678]

Well you have 8 biological great grandparents but one of them might have left you’re other great grandparent when you’re grandparent was young.(also incest)

[@ekvedrek]

United Kingdom *ALABAMA INTRNSIFIES*

[@jackiecozzie4803]

@@arandomyorkshireman9678 but what if some are the same person, like in this example it's talking about the incest in game of thrones

[@arandomyorkshireman9678]

@@jackiecozzie4803 yeah that can happen too

[@jennaolbermann7663]

I love genealogy because every person in the tree has a story to tell. I am starting to study in order to become a professional, it marries two of my passions together: history and genealogy. I have learned a lot more history from doing this and I have a deeper appreciation for my ancestors.

[@jasonkiefer1894]

Great history, Matt. I remember the episode about the Halifax explosion on The Great War Channel. Sorry for your family's tragedy. But to be a part of major historical events is no small thing. Thank you for the links. I am going to head over to watch videos about my mostly German ancestry. Always keep up the good work.

[@rubylynch7540]

My maternal family migrated to Nova Scotia from Scotland on the ship Hector in 1773. I can actually trace all the way back to the Hector through the female line! So many people in my family love genealogy, and we have some really beautiful handmade family trees knocking around various attics in NS and PEI. We settled more around the Pictou area, up near the north of Nova Scotia. My grandma was born in Pictou in the 40s, so obviously doesnt remember the Halifax explosion, BUT she does have a copy of her mother's diary who lived in Halifax around the time of the explosion and wrote about her memories of it, so I've always grown up knowing about it. Its always so exciting to hear someone talk about Nova Scotia or the Halifax explosion, my grandparents moved to the UK in the 60s so I've only visited Canada 6 or 7 times. I love it so much and really feel connected to it. So nice to hear that one of my favourite channels has roots in the same province I do, and your ancestors have some connections to mine! Very very cool video my friend xx

[@aston5388]

How you find out these information I cant even know my grandfather dad....

[@Terrus_38]

If you'll really research you can even find out your far ancestors :) I have an uncle who spent almost his whole live making my family's genealogic tree. He "dug it" to 12th century :)

[@UsefulCharts]

Start by asking any older relatives that you might be in contact with. Then try a site like ancestry.com. If you're adopted or have very little contact with relatives, a DNA test might be the only way to start.

[@aston5388]

UsefulCharts the mother of my grandpa never tell anyone who is his father so my surname is named after her :(

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

@@aston5388 Genealogy is about time and location. The genealogist's secret weapon for knowing what records are available in any area in the world is FamilySearch.org/Wiki . Then type in the location you are researching and see what is available. This isn't the page to research your ancestors but rather s portal to other records sets, even if you knew little about your ancestors.

[@thegamingrhino5864]

@@norlofthor7088 your english may be broken, but i understood it completely

[@iainsan]

I found this fascinating. In many ways, the family trees of 'ordinary' people are more interesting than those of royalty, because they are a history of struggle and survival. Thank you for sharing it. You must have felt so excited when you were able to trace a branch of your family back to the 17th century.

[@gagejohannsen4413]

Here’s a helpful tip that no one seems to mention: if you’re having trouble finding the parents or children of a deceased relative, look for their obituary, most funeral homes will post these online and they will include the deceased predecessed relatives (parents, children, siblings). They will also usually include the “survived by” members of the family from spouses to grand children

[@The315fan]

Thanks 🙏 This was how I managed to find out about my distant cousins along with finding out whether any of my late grandparents have any surviving 1st cousins.

[@lrose1310]

I LOVE learning about people's family genealogy. Everyone's family has a plethora of stories and they're all fascinating.

[@kingly2411]

I’ve been waiting for this

[@helenat2446]

My heritage is Chinese and I have lived in Australia all my life and only speak English. I’m so envious of everyone who is able to trace their family histories in detail because they still have the language. Mine is full of lots of migration stories which are just that - stories passed down but slowly forgotten.

[@Lucien-dx8rd]

“These are my grandparents and like everyone else I have 8 of them.” *sad Alabama noises*

[@conorlamere399]

"It's a really simple story, there was a bad blight on potato crops in Ireland... Made worse by bad (British) government policies. " Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half. Glad you acknowledged that it wasn't as simple as failed crops.

[@timonheidema6837]

A story about my maternal grandfather: I'm Dutch and my family has been for many generations (dating back to at least 1400 AD on most lines). And The Netherlands was occupied by Germany during WW2. Now, my grandfather had quite an adventure during the war. Not only did he and his family have Jews hidden away (One of which was born while hidden and actually showed up at my grandpa's funeral), but he also narrowly escaped a German conscription, by stealing someone's bike, which he later returned. So yes, you are right... Everyone has an interesting family story, no matter if you're rich or poor, famous or not...

[@hanszimmer9224]

And by Spain & Austria

[@timonheidema6837]

@@hanszimmer9224 What about Spain and Austria?

[@hanszimmer9224]

@@timonheidema6837 The netherlands were also occupied by spain, austria, burgund & france.

[@timonheidema6837]

@@hanszimmer9224 Yes. In history. I was just talking about my maternal grandfather in WW2

[@priyanshupriyam5024]

But I don't.

[@AnthonyP73]

Having explored my own genealogy, I would never say someone else's tree is not interesting. I have also helped others with their trees and invariably there is something meaty and interesting in every tree. Thanks for sharing yours Matt!

[@TWOOOOO2]

Damn, all I know about my great grandparents is the fact that they existed at all

[@thomasdixon4373]

Different but also good to mix it up a bit and I think you are someone special

[@WTFCDFoxy]

It's very interesting to think that how diverse and mixed every person actually is...

[@Vigilante-3-1]

Thats why you're supposed to treat everyone as an individual and not as a group of any kind.

[@dylanmartin7604]

Mate I'm 100% Anglo Saxon and celtic up to the 1600's, only stopped because I can't chase my tree any farther.

[@netajithevar296]

He is 100% white. How is he mixed?

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

@@netajithevar296 different kind of whites though. Call an Irish an English, even though they're both white, and you might earn yourself a beating.

[@elisabeth4912]

@@netajithevar296 He's of German, Jewish and Irish descent.

[@chirsh11]

You are someone special! Without you, we wouldn’t have this awesome channel!

[@chirsh11]

Also since my entire family is Jewish there’s very little info on some of my ancestors 🤷🏻‍♂️. Although I am related to the longest serving president of FC Bayern Munich, which is pretty cool. And my great great great grandfather was a wealthy rice farmer in Louisiana, which, well, isn’t as cool but 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kevwang0712]

I've spent the past few days binging on this channel, and aside from all the great work with all the family trees, I'm giving my biggest thumbs up to the fact that you use Ubuntu and Libreoffice. In all seriousness though, I might offer a few interesting tidbits that maybe not that many people know. I'm Taiwanese, and although Taiwan at first glance might seem relatively homogenous since the great majority of the people can trace their roots to southeastern China (aside from the indigenous peoples of course), oftentimes the families that migrated to Taiwan before the mid to late 17th century have some European DNA in their blood that might not be documented in their official family trees; this was because of Dutch and Spanish settlements in Taiwan, but of course at the time acknowledging that you conceived a child with a "red haired barbarian" would be a disgrace to the family. Also, of the Ming dynasty loyalists that drove the Dutch out, some were either Chinese Muslims or had Arab roots that went even further back in history; to this day there are families in southern Taiwan who follow the Islamic practice of burial within one day as a family tradition, even though the families themselves have not followed the religion for generations. Not much important info here, just that seeing this video reminded me of this.

[@icreatedanaccountforthis1852]

I really enjoyed that you shared this with us. I think so much of history is about regular people just trying to find their way in life. It's great to get glimpses into this kind of history and remember that famous people are rulers are only a tiny bit of the population.

[@superguy199]

"Everyone has 8 great grandparents" Me who has 10 because my dad was adopted through marriage: Pathetic

[@kets4443]

so his stepparent adopted him?

[@superguy199]

@@kets4443 yes

[@wooy1701]

I have 8 biological grand parents but 12 trough marige and divorce

[@collinssportstalk7504]

Matt, Don’t hate on yourself. Your Special

[@οαυτος]

My great great great great grandparent is Barbarosa the great turkish pirate Im from Greece lmao

[@nesminra8982]

Wow crazy!!

[@billylauwda9178]

Does that mean you get to have a free cutlass and a rowdy drunken crew to crew your ship

[@ManhaJSalafee]

Ha ha funny

[@ekvedrek]

*so when ya revoltin’*

[@zfesiha]

Are you serius?! That's really amazing and weird.

[@mikes10663]

Three years ago we spent three weeks in the Maritime Provinces. For the first week we rented a house near Lunenburg and spent every day exploring the island. Big Tancook was one of the places we visited!

[@UsefulCharts]

Nice. It's actually been 15 years since I last visited Nova Scotia (I'm on the West coast now). I'm overdue for a trip!

[@1roanstephen]

Actually, your family history is interesting and nice to learn. Thank you for this channel.

[@notquiteatory971]

Bruh, you are special. You make the effort to make these maps. Thank you.

[@charlietaube4026]

I thank you for your grandfather’s service in World War II

[@jasondykstra5257]

Great video, it is very interesting looking into your families past. I have recently dived down the rabbithole myself and was more than happy with my findings!

[@corvus1374]

I had Huguenot Flemish ancestors who went to New Netherlands after they were hounded out of France. They arrived in 1661.

[@BoundlessGenealogy]

I love this view of micro-history in the context of broader history. Thanks, Matt!

[@shwalkingmeme485]

Hears Levi... ATTACK ON TITAN!!!

[@n4ppin]

I was looking for that comment xD

[@charoflakes]

what napf said

[@myalt.yt.shorts.account]

Rwtard

[@charoflakes]

@@myalt.yt.shorts.account no! don't be mean!

[@Ar-fy5nc]

@@charoflakes so Levi is Jews name in Jews island. Interesting.

[@sufwanmughul4602]

Wow, your family history is amazing, the farthest back my family history goes is 6 generations I know the names but not the stories and it's difficult to do further research when my family lived in a village and only kept oral records of their history. However, I've started compiling it in a written form so hopefully one of my descendants in a few generations will have a rich history

[@ManhaJSalafee]

Me also. Work on it. You can in sha Allah. I'm very interested in family history reacharch . You can search old documents of you frofathers land from land office

[@ELee-zv5ud]

You could supplement it with the history of the different eras in that area. While they may or may not show up in the history bu tthey will have lived through whatever the events were.

[@untruelie2640]

Nice Video! :D And 3 interesting migration stories. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[@aceofspades8634]

You are so lucky to be able to trace so many ancestors! I’ve always been curious about genealogy and my ancestry, but sadly, the furthest ancestor I can trace back to is my great-great-great grandfather. I can’t go back any further even if I wanted to, since our culture didn’t have a writing system until the 18th century, and all stories, legends, and information were passed down through oral songs or poems.

[@alcaulique8358]

You inhabitants of the colony with you crazy family tree! ;) Mine is simple everybody is from the same region.

[@pipmitchell7059]

Hey! You're almost a neighbour! What fun to find (completely by chance) on KZbin one of the few inhabitants of Tancook Island. Thank you for sharing your family's history with its links to significant events in Nova Scotia history - very interesting!

[@aposiopetic]

Thank you so much for sharing your family's history with us! And, as ever, for your thoughtful approach to history and engagement with politically resonant material.

[@debieellisa8308]

I am so envious of you westerners. All of you have such an interesting and traceable family tree. A good quarter maybe half of you also have a bit of noble/royal blood. My family tree is basically untraceable and nothing important.

[@ciaranmck4469]

dont be poor and eastern then

[@Benjey657]

Interesting story, I know from grandma, that my great great grandfather was a strongman in a circus.

[@willimations277]

Very interesting video. Alas being Northern Irish, almost all of my ancestors for 6 generations were too, meaning all records die out in the mid-19th century - the record office was burned down in 'the Troubles'. Hopefully one day I'll be able to go back further like you, thanks for the video.

[@ozymandiaspbs]

Willimations - I just watched a video by 'FindMyPast' & they have a HUGE repository of Irish documents to work around the loss of those census documents.

[@Brian-on8kb]

If my dad wouldn’t have went toVietnam then I wouldn’t be here. History wouldn’t be the same.

[@andersonsilver6978]

My family on my dad's side all immigrated to Nova Scotia from Germany too! In 1752 on the ship the Pearl Specifically to lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Their name was Vonsilber which was changed to Silver. My grandfather and his siblings still live in Nova Scotia. A few years ago we got to visit lunenburg and see the land that my ancestors were given and see a Lutheran Church the first in North America helped build.

[@saturnproductions1827]

My great-grandfather was in the polish army during WWII

[@lightyagami3492]

Either your very young or he was an old man in WW2

[@ozymandiaspbs]

I do not have any Polish but a friend does (he is 1/2 Polish, 1/2 Italian), so I did a little research for him. Wow, Poland's Hassar cavalary was AMAZING!! My friend was astounded by the information I found about his family history.

[@stellaluna6421]

Thank you for the work that goes into your excellent captions!

[@kevinjati7953]

I remember all my grandparents my great grandparents my great great my great great great I live in indonesia but my great great great great great great grandfather lives in china and he moves here to indonesia with a chinese diplomat named cheng ho. My great⁶ grandfather is a chinese royal family according to his clan name. And he used to write a book about his biography and we still continue that tradition. The book now is approx 3cm thick. And my great⁶ grandfather and his son and grandchild has 10 child so it would be hard to make my family tree. My mother only made a family tree from my great⁵ grandfather. But we knew the name thanks to the book that my great⁶ grandfather made.

[@keladitua8535]

Nah

[@TravelingBibliophile]

I find genealogy fascinating , even if it isn’t my own, My mum’s Scottish maternal grandmother’s side has been the easiest for me to trace for the obvious reason, they had $$$. They were one of the initial founding families of Fergus Ontario where there are a buildings, and a street named for them there. There are also a few books which mention them and their ancestry back in Scotland so that provided the easiest place for me to start. Her dad’s side was easy to do back to mandatory registration of b/m/d in England but going back further was a bit more challenging since they have come from more humble backgrounds and tended to be servants, tanners, publicans and the ilk, so I had to comb through church records to get further back than the 1830s. Dad’s side is more difficult because they are from Eastern Europe so most records are in Ukrainian or Polish. There are some that are in Latin that I can figure out since they are church records and are easier to decipher because of the layout of the pages for baptisms, weddings and burials . Interestingly you mentioned the Halifax explosion. I recently obtained my Ukrainian 2x great grandfather’s naturalization application in the 1930s. It mentioned that they arrived, and disembarked, in Halifax in 1913. When the person handling his case went to find the records to prove this, which they did twice, they were unable to locate them. It immediately made me wonder if the immigration processing records were kept in whichever port the person disembarked at. If they did it would explain why they couldn’t find the, since they would have been destroyed in the fires that followed explosion .

[@60enterprises]

Thanks for sharing YOUR story, like the stories that are part of the channel, it is equally important

[@robertreisner6119]

In 1983 my dad's mom helped me with our family tree with their relatives, and over the next several months we discovered her husband's family and researched it. Now our family tree dates to 1503 in Barvaria near the edge of Germany's Black Forrest. Intersecting to me that in the 1500's the Stauffer family was our neighbor, now l sit on our local flood board with a R. Stauffer who was related directly from the Barvarian Stauffer family back in the 1500's

[@hopegold883]

I would love to see charts on Nā Aliʻi Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian royalty).

[@UsefulCharts]

That's next week's topic 😀

[@ricey23]

You've got some interesting stories here Matt. I tried doing a family tree but mine is a mess, thanks grandpa!

[@realhawaii5o]

My family has traced back our roots to about 900 AD.

[@Lord_Raymund]

Not that it is a competion or anything but i can trace my roots back another 200 year :P

[@bilfbilfbilf]

@@Lord_Raymund sorry that it's been multiple months, but how did you find all that out. In extremely interested in creating a family tree and I want to go as far back as possible

[@rodcorkum8482]

This just appeared in a FaceBook search - it was linked in a Tancook Island group post. I know this video is now four years old but I found it rather interesting as I'm currently researching some of my maternal family and the branch I'm on now has ended up at the Tancook Islands. It was the Rodenhiser line and of course many old Lunenburg families are interconnected. All of my 4 grandparents lines arrived in that Foreign Protestant migration in 1751-52 and settled in Lunenburg. I haven't finished with Tancook yet but I so far have found 72 related graves in the Big Tancook cemetery (15 are Baker) and 18 in the Little Tancook cemetery (almost all Levy). None of your grandparents have shown up in my tree so I guess we are not related. (After 8 years of research, I'm up to 20,600 people in my tree so far since they landed in Nova Scotia ... many more still to find. And the Corkum's have some interesting history in Germany too before they came here.)

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

There are no migration stories in my family tree. I've traced most lines back to the 1750ish and they've all been born, lived and died in a small area in northern Finland. My DNA came back to 97.6% Finnish. The only outlier was a distant indigenous ancestor on my mother's side. So boring!

[@FaaduProductions]

Indigenous to where?

[@blitzkrieg2928]

oi perkele

[@greatwolf5372]

@@FaaduProductions Malawi

[@oimss2021]

Why boring? Having roots is just as cool as having relatives from different places

[@enqrbit]

@@FaaduProductions Northern Finland(the Sami people)

[@angela4469]

Every family has an interesting story to tell. Another great video, thank you!

[@leonardodavid2842]

My friend family name is Levy. It comes from France, probably a Jewish family.

[@octaviusroosevelt7355]

My mom's family came to Colorado from Sicily, and then to California during the Great Depression. My dad's family came to Utah from Denmark and to Idaho from Britain in the 1800s. They also moved to California eventually.

[@korbinarnold101]

Hi! Love the video and just wanted to ask... even though its a bit of a stretch, would you possibly consider creating a large family tree chart of Native or "Indian" royalty/leaders please? At least Native Americans i would hope,im Cherokee and Inca but i have a very hard time keeping all of the information on their leadership and monarchs in order, and i thiught you may be able to help seeing as your, well, a genealogicsl genius. The best im able to do is get my family tree of 6,000 prople, but historical facts are hard to come by.

[@UsefulCharts]

I actually hope to do the Incas soon. As for Native Americans from what is now the U.S., I don't know of any records that show leaders prior to European arrival. If you know of any, let me know.

[@korbinarnold101]

@@UsefulCharts awesome! Thank you!!

[@Alexander-gq4lz]

My great great grandmother was called Duus and was born to Christian Duus who was born in 1849. He was born as the heir to an estate in Schleswig, the part that is now Denmark today - and also then. For a time at least. In 1864 the Germans invaded Schleswig-Holstein, and all estates were given to Germans. This made my family move to Aarhus, Denmark, where Christian Duus grew up and opened a pub where he worked. The rest of my family are almost entirely from the Aarhus area, making it one particular historical event that made my great great grandmother meet my great great grandfather and by extension creating me. These type of family stories are some of the most interesting, if you ask me!

[@thecrap17yearsago35]

1:53 I only have 7 great grandparents don't assume things y'a don't know

[@UkrainePatr1ot]

Your parents were half-cousins?

[@i.pezzotti853]

Wtf is this a joke or is this true?

[@Harry_Maguire1]

What.

[@Harry_Maguire1]

That is NOT a flex

[@laslooo]

Loved the use of maps and other images used to supplement your family narrative while you traversed your family tree. Loved it! Would love to see more multi-modal integration of other types of media while stepping through any of your charts. Keep up the great work!

[@samuelboucher1454]

Could you do a video charting the many divergences of Protestantism following the Reformation? I have always wanted to see how every denomination was formed. :)

[@jeansbeans7452]

Yes!

[@ELee-zv5ud]

That will be a mess. Every little sect kept splitting over the most minor thing. How about a time limit. Say until 1800. They are still splitting. Especially once they were in the US . So many are not even the consequence of splitting but of individuals who decided to start their own "church" often with little theology. Where to draw the line.

[@nirutivan9811]

Interesting video. I couldn’t tell as much about immigration in my family. On my paternal line my great great great great grandfather moved into the house I still live in and my family name originates from a village close to where I live now. Only my mothers paternal grandfather moved here from northern Germany. He came here as a journeyman and stayed because he fell in love (and a funny coincidence: he came from Lüneburg, the german city Lunenburg in Nova Scotia got the name from) All the other Ancestors I know about were Swiss.

[@jacobhopkins32]

Is there a way I can find my family tree?

[@Filip-uw9jp]

You have to make one

[@lozpio]

Jacob Hopkins very simple, especially with a last name such as yours. Contact me for info about this

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

It was really interresting to see that story of your ancestors, I also find the fact interresting, that you have so many ancestors from such a tiny island, which is kind of a special place.

[@Bluey-jf8fc]

I’m related to Alfred Heckmann a nazi pilot

[@JastwatchingYT]

That's fine he might not have been a n actual Nazi he just might have needed to act like it so Hitler and Himmler wouldn't sent him off to the death row

[@stevenmichaelhachey4483]

my direct male great grandfather Edmund Hachey was an Acadian New Brunswicker who helped with the Halifax cleanup. Also, the city of Boston (my hometown) was the largest donor of aid for the explosion. In return, every christmas to this very day Boston gets its tree from Halifax.

[@宋霖-r8n]

First comment in this video

[@林秀爱]

No video 10millon subs nice

[@theheadlionenglish8213]

4

[@britishchinese8973]

Nice

[@helloismehihihihiih7581]

Man have lots account

[@unknownkid6202]

Not bad

[@hannahstahl1857]

Fancy fancy, Mr. Baker. Thank you for sharing your family history with us

[@mattynewham1125]

my family been here since 1735

[@royyark2896]

Bruh my family isn’t even in America, I’m not even in America

[@williamf4544]

Now thats just laziness

[@michaelsimon4034]

Matt-I’m always fascinated by your videos. Particularly interesting to me in this video is your Jewish ancestry, as I am Jewish, and the fact that your family comes from Tancook Island. Almost five years ago we took a three week trip to the Maritime Provinces. While we didn’t get everywhere, during our week in Nova Scotia we took the ferry to Big Tancook Island and spent part of the day wandering around. If it happens that you have not been to Tancook in recent years, I would be happy to send you a few of the photos I took there,

[@UsefulCharts]

I actually haven't been to Tancook Island since I was 4 years old, over 40 years ago! Would love to see some photos... matt at usefulcharts dot com.

[@Wombat_Dad]

As a Cajun, I didn't expect this video to include le Grande Derangement. Like you said, we're all connected! Bonjour from Louisiana!

[@TheMarslMcFly]

That's super interesting. I'm german and our family lived here for pretty much ever as far as I know. I only know through narratives that my maternal grandmother came here from prussia, I guess around WW2, and one of my paternal ancestors probably came here from Austria. Now I want to know more about that. :D

[@sigridlaing978]

Hello- My Mother's Mother name is Ida Josephine Levy. She married William Johnson of Lunenburg . Both these grandparents died when my Mom Frances Josephine Johnson was very young. She was raised by a family called Mossman . All this history was hidden until my daughter and I had 23 and ME .DNA showed having Ashkenaz hertitage. I am visiting Nova Scotia next May. Would love to find more of our ancestry .I am pretty sure we are related.

[@leahwilton785]

Wow! The Acaidian history was a fun little flash back to middle school history that I wasn't expecting here. As someone from Eastern Canada, much of my personal ancestry was on the opposite side as yours; the French. They didn't manage to kick us all out! Hahah

[@parkermanist]

I really enjoyed this one. Thanks for sharing Matt!

[@maried.4980]

There’s also Acadians that ended up on the northern coast of Quebec. They’re called Cayen.

[@WeyounSix]

Its crazy the history you can learn from your own family tree. In my tree on the same exact father-son line, I had English aristocrats who subjugated the Irish in the 1400's, who's descendants fought in the American revolutionary war and died of smallpox in a revolutionary camp. Crazy stuff.

[@rtoddpartridge8737]

I enjoy your videos. Our stories are somewhat similar, except mine is almost exclusively U.S. Dutch to Nieuw Nederlandt (now NJ and NY) in the 1660's, Palatine Germans to NY in the 1700's, but my Irish ancestors to London, England where my gr-grandmother met my American gr-grandfather. And imagine my surprise that I recognized your ancestor, Moses Levy, while not directly related to me, is in my family history.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

Wow, it's so cool you're related to the Halifax explosion!!!

[@nathanieldavis1671]

Potato famine is directly related to the napoleon wars. Its interesting the correlation between wars and economics. Your family tree is similar to mine. Just a few differences. Mine came over with the pilgrims, then to oxford in the Virginia north Carolina and then eventually to Louisiana. Then i have one branch from southern Ireland during the potato crisis. I also hav an illusive Jewish line somewhere. There is a few weird names in my tree that i have not clue were they came from. Ohh also a bantu line somewhere. No clue on were that line is. Genealogy always gets interesting and more informative than history books