bostaurus
Well-Known Member
My very smart brother started researching our family tree years ago, before much was on the web, and then I picked it up from there. It is a lot of fun and very interesting.
We actually traced our family back to Adam! No kidding!
It is funny... Irish monks...way back in the day....decided that since the king was supposed to have been given their right of kingship from God then they needed to have an unbroken line from Adam. So they did their "research" and were able to come up with an unbroken line back to Adam.
So, if you can trace your family to the British or Irish royal family you can trace back to Adam. We have a couple of folks that came to Jamestown as poorer relations of upper crust families. If your family is from England you are probably in the lineage of the royal family whether you can show it or not. There have always been a lot of folks in the "peerage" and they have always been very profligate. There are probably more folks related to the Queen through the back door than those that were "to the Manor born".
We actually traced our family back to Adam! No kidding!
It is funny... Irish monks...way back in the day....decided that since the king was supposed to have been given their right of kingship from God then they needed to have an unbroken line from Adam. So they did their "research" and were able to come up with an unbroken line back to Adam.
So, if you can trace your family to the British or Irish royal family you can trace back to Adam. We have a couple of folks that came to Jamestown as poorer relations of upper crust families. If your family is from England you are probably in the lineage of the royal family whether you can show it or not. There have always been a lot of folks in the "peerage" and they have always been very profligate. There are probably more folks related to the Queen through the back door than those that were "to the Manor born".