Am I really related to William the Conqueror??

[ThrelfallYorky]

I'm quite happy with all the small tradesmen, farmers, shipwrights, ag labs, etc in my ancestry - at least I'm pretty sure no one else wants 'em, and I don't need to order a tiara!
I try to keep my feet one the ground ... and that ground falls away on all sides before 1560s! more a landslide obliterating all than a gateway accessing all!

[StevieSteve]

Is Danny Dyer now a gateway ancestor?

[ThrelfallYorky]

! I like that! (He's going to take a long time to live that WDYTYA? down, isn't he?)

[Hammerman]

Here's a tree showing God at the top all the way down to Prince George.

http://www.jesusevidence.org/gen.html

[JanPennington]

Hmmm!
I have just looked at the tree mentioned by Hammerman.  I could not quite understand  the link from Judah to Ireland.  I would need to see more of the evidence.

I will save the tree I found as was suggested earlier for interest and go back to slowly plodding through the records.

Jan

[Treetotal]

Jan,

That's why I call it 'Fancestry'....most are all fantasy & for FindMyPast, I call it 'Blind my Past' as the transcriptions of some are a joke i.e. not findable to novices who don't know about mis-transcriptions/variants etc

Annie

I like that.....
Carol

[jbml]

I'm quite happy with all the small tradesmen, farmers, shipwrights, ag labs, etc in my ancestry - at least I'm pretty sure no one else wants 'em, and I don't need to order a tiara!
I try to keep my feet one the ground ... and that ground falls away on all sides before 1560s! more a landslide obliterating all than a gateway accessing all!

I'm with you there, Yorky!

At least with all our rude mechanicals, when there's an extra-marital parental occurrence there's a reasonable chance that you'll find a bastardy order to tell you all about it, and will be able to research the TRUE reputed father! In the noble families, these things were as often as not swept under the carpet (not much point, really, in an Earl seeking a bastardy order requiring his cook to contribute to the upbringing of his child, is there??) and so you'll never find out that you're barking up the wrong (family) tree.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Agree. - But in another way, it'd be nice to get just that bit further back on at least one line. However, all so hopelessly "plebian" that I've not a cat in hell's chance of getting there.
Still, better than those mysterious Irish, who all seemed so vague about ages and place of origin even within Ireland - none of those goes beyond 1850!
_But I feel sure really that I must have William the Conqueror, Attila the Hun and possibly Boudicca in there, somewhere!!!

[coombs]

I have some landowners in my tree and some gentlemen, many of these people started off at the bottom and worked their way up. I have rellies from Sussex so I may be descended from Billy The Conq.

Royal ancestors tended to have everything handed to them on a silver platter with bells on it whereas ag labs, weavers and local tradesmen toiled away to feed their families.