Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Finding Your Royal Roots | Using Geni.com" video.

  1. Yazzeen If your whole ancestry somehow came from people who were of zero noble descent including during the Middle Ages...you would be extraordinarily rare! The tree would stop in the 1500s most likely, and none of the surnames would qualify as a known nobility surname. A unicorn event.
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  2. Napoleon I Bonaparte Do you mean like Chinese? They have extremely extensive historical documentation there. Not hard at all.
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  3. Erin Rising DNA test. If she is of older American stock it should not be tough to figure out the sibling group her father was from at the very least. Nowadays it’s a piece of cake.
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  4. Matthew Bradley It’s a mix of websites. Wikitree is the most unbiased. Ancestry has the best but not all records. Familysearch at a family history center can give documents you may not be able to obtain elsewhere. On occcasion, you may have to visit courthouses, genealogy societies in the location your interested in. For genetic testing, it can be tough. I recommend starting with AncestryDNA and 23&me. AncestryDNA has the largest pool of potential matches, but their tools are of limited capabilities. 23&me gives you good matches and the ability to map out your matches and triangulate them. They also provide basic level information on your Y haplogroup and mitochondrial haplogroup. Family Tree DNA is pro level, but expensive. You can get a full mitochondrial test there as well as a Y test but it isn’t cheap. They also do family matching, and their database is decent sized. My Heritage has a so-so record collection, and their DNA pool is not large right now but is growing. You can also upload your dna file from another testing company to them, and base your matches off of it. I’ve scored some really important matches there, so you never know. You may hit pay dirt there. LivingDNA is new, and hasn’t really developed yet so I don’t recommend them just yet. They specialize in the British isles. Gedmatch is a website where can upload your dna file to compare with others for no cost. It has tools which can be useful for the probing of deep ancestry, and a great pool of potential matches. There has been some controversy about police departments using the database to nab criminals who left behind their genetic calling cards at crime scenes, but this was recently addressed by giving users the option to opt out of allowing police to compare to them. Regardless, it’s an important website to use and can reveal quite a bit to you.
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  5. Jeff Liggett You’re the king of Scotland? This is for you then! https://youtu.be/a75KNmw1Cwk
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  6. Bobbie Amore Only if you are a crumb.
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  7. Mike Mancuso Knights and barons often were not of royal lineage. A great example is Sir John Hawkwood. English commoner who sliced and diced his way into the aristocracy.
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  8. Golden Glove Aaahhh. Your joke almost flew over me until I noticed your picture. Quite clever of you. I saw your family crypt recently in Spain. The underground chamber is a bit spooky, especially going down the steps past the rotting rooms. Multiple generational inbreeding is very, very bad for you!
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  9. Elias Hölén Hannouch There are some places in Europe where commoners were registered early on in the Catholic records. They “tend” to be in Southern Europe with the occasional few in the north. You are very fortunate to have a tree like you have; I have maybe three or four branches that get back to the 1350s bottleneck, but that’s it. Anything else I have is non-commoner manorial that goes back to that point, but just a few.
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  10. Elias Hölén Hannouch Wow, you are lucky! I have Norwegian and Danish and cannot get beyond the late 1600s there.
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  11. Tavas Many Asian nations have excellent information on people in the past, so it’s not tough there necessarily. The four big problem areas of the world are Africa, pre-Columbian America, Ireland and Russia. Sub Saharan Africa did not have the means to make records, the native Americans chose not to, and Ireland along with Russia destroyed their own records. Doing any kind of research in these areas can be a major challenge.
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  12. Darth Revan DNA test. Go find your parents.
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  13. 不民巴图汗 Where is Genghis tomb? No one seems to know.
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  14. cormac macsuibhne Uhm..I could almost swear that name sounds familiar to me as part of my wikitree file. I wonder how common it is?
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  15. Eric Moore There are parts of the ancestral tree of QEII that cannot be resolved, for some reason.
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  16. mr saxophon Birdseed.
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  17. Jill Pearson Watch some episodes of finding your roots. Henry Louis Gates does such great research on there.
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  18. Denny Hebron Tough to have kids when your family jewels are hollow from birth...poor guy never had a chance.
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