@@prateeksharma6706 hes not saying all asians but most asians, im probably conected to an indian farmer somewhere in my bloodline or maybe a japanese emperor or maybe an arabic sultan, or even you we have a 99.99% chance of sharing a common ancsestor
The First humans in Africa (which gave rise to the rest of humanity): created the dynasty of all royals indeed: so really: everyone has them to thank for their blood...
@dimapez The video is about why everyone living in Europe in 1000 AD (or CE) were the common ancestors of everyone who has at least one European ancestor today. It is an interesting theory, and seems sound. I am unable to analyze such models and statistics, however, and am going by faith in the reporters. By the way, I did buy two of the posters on Eastern and Western royals because I'm an amateur history buff. I can't wait to see them!
I'd say give it a try. Though I would not hope too much to get a direct link to Caesar or Augustus. These times seem like very murdery for imperial descendants, when any are available.
My dad (coming from a poor farmer family) traced back his lineage and found Charlemagne as well. My mom laughed at him and said: "You guys have fallen deeply".😂
@@MAGNETO-i1i no. He just traced back his family lineage in a straight line with help from official family trees that are documented, and marriage and birth certificates.
I can trace my family tree to points where they connect to other trees online, and those goe back very long distances. But to me once I get beyond a couple of centuries or 5 6 generations there is no real connection as you dont know them. They are strangers that are only important that they lived to complete what makes you, but I have no sentimental relationship to the person. For example my great grandad knew my grandad and I knew grandad. My great grandad knew his grandad, but I knew neither of them. Anything beyond that is even less a connection. In that distance from me there are 32 positions for that generation of my tree so each position makes 3.125% of what is me. So anything beyond that is virtually the same as the resr of the population of the world.
I’m related to Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Leonidas - they’re my dad’s first cousins, and they run a souvlaki grill a couple of blocks down from my place.
Well, if we manage to keep our current records, a couple hundred years from now the descendents of everyone currently alive will have quite a large one they could reference, even containing quite a few of our own ancestors. Still won't contain every link though. Some people are bound to get missed, especially in unfortunate cicumstances.
Well, from now on it will be possible, with the power of internet and the government identification records, future generations will know who were their ancestors
I have been a genealogist for over 20 years, and I can seriously say that this is the clearest, most crisp, yes b e s t explanation I have ever seen, read or heard on this specific topic. Very, very well done.
@@flamenco1961 Well, in Karolingian times, our respective countries were part of France, then Germany, so I didn't mind so much. This video isn't 'Yakko's World' ;-)
On the subject of being hard to name second cousins: a friend of mine is in fact the result of a marriage between two second cousins. They didn't know they were second cousins until it was time to get married, the families all got together and realized a common long dead ancestor existed (almost inevitable as well, since the two families came from two close villages)
growing up in my family we have so may cousins that the only distinction between cousins is first cousins and then every other cousin, because of this anytime I like someone or know of someone that gets with there like 7th cousin twice removed we view it as the same as someone getting with their first or second cousin 😂 it wasn't until recently that I started to look at it differently because of two people I found were my cousins the first was a random kid in my high school who I had a class with and didn't talk to but found out that his like great grandma and my great grandpa were siblings which makes us third cousins but I felt weird about it so I never told him the second time was when I found out an NFL player was cousin, I guess my great grandpa and his grandpa are brothers, and my grandpa and his dad grew up together and my grandpa even saw him when he was a kid because he went to high school in a nearby city. I've never met the dude so ultimately for me it always feels weird being like "that's my cousin" and it's like is a second cousin once removed really your cousin at that point?
@@Rakettivuori Nope, that's the Habsburg-Lorraine house, which is officially the heir to the Habsburg line, but in the male line they're descended from the Lorraines.
@@ezrahadwi135 Like I said, he's technically the heir to the Habsburg male line, but he isn't descended from them. He's descended from Joseph II of Austria. Joseph's father was of the house of Lorraine, and his mother was of the Habsburgs. He is thus the heir of the Habsburgs but is actually a Lorraine. There are no male-line Habsburgs alive today.
But it is harder to have a trace of the ascendancy from peasants in most cases the more we go back in the generations. While for the nobility there are record of the history of the family. It is easier to trace back until Charlemagne , than to the peasant Johan living in a little village at some kilometers of the castle of Charlemagne.
Fun fact: 6 degrees of separation applies exactly with regards to my parents. My parents, my grandma, and I did an ancestry DNA test and it turns out that my parents are related 6 generations back through some guy who murdered his wife. Cool!
@@Fisinocean I don't *literally* think murder is a good thing, I was saying that jokingly. Out of all the types of people it could've been, it ended up being a murderer, and I find the situation kind of amusing and absurd. 😂
I always thought the 6° of separation would make a really fun show where people around the world could try to find the connection between them or someone picks a random celebrity and does the same. I think it’s fascinating And I wish someone would do it :-)
This was actually done in Norway a couple years back (on NRK). Famous norwegians teamed up in pairs and got shipped to different distant places in the world and attempted to find five persons who could link them to another famous person waiting to see if they could manage it in a certain timeframe. It was superfun to watch.
@@charliedegiulio9951 I did that on MySpace! One guy and I were making each other crack up on Tom Lennon's page so much, we became friends and he was into genealogy, same as my sister and we're distant cousins. He gets his essential Tremor from Kate Hepburn, whom he met in passing before he found out they were kin. Not that he would have left his husband for her, but... LOL
I visited my ancestral home of Stirling Castle in Scotland and inquired where I could claim my inheritance, but was rather ignored. So I enjoyed the tour anyway.
@@johnedington6083 I did 23 and me and it shows I’m a descendent of him as well it traced that far back I was shocked because I always knew I’m African American and Native American but it also showed a lot of European as well
Vindexproeliator Yes I know, but considering that the ancient Roman empire was around hundreds and hundreds of years before the holy Roman empire, I would assume I am also related to people from then. And considering that Charlemaine was declared holy Roman emperor when he took Rome, I think my comment works either way.
@@naggu1243 i have found a family tree of European nobility, and i can't trace back to Cesar with the data they have, while i have some other Roman emperors in the ancestries , but younger. On the other hand "i can" reclaim the Persian Empire of the Sassanian .
Just have to say, this video is incredibly well done. Lots of important ideas communicated very clearly, great imagery, great examples, great narration. Awesome stuff
There were 102 people on the "Mayflower" when it landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Some were married couples, and some married each other or later arrivals. From them came 29 bloodlines with descendants today. How many descendants? Over 30,000,000, or approximately one tenth of the current US population. This is why "The DaVinci Code" plot was so wrong. Instead of a secret Catholic organization trying to eradicate the last few living descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalen, the task would have been impossible, as they would have to eradicate just about everyone with on earth, including themselves.
It gets easier the far back you go if you use a genealogy website, because other people have already researched those older lineages. I did mine several years ago to trace the English portion of my heritage. After getting back to my great grandfather's generation I found more and more other people whose research gave me information to go back all the way to Charlemagne. Turns out the Carpenter family (maternal grandmother's side) originates with William the Carpenter, a french nobleman who was a deserter during the Crusades. The french family originated in Germany with Charlemagne's line and then moved to england before coming to the US in the 1600s. It's just a matter of going back four or five generations, but here's the thing, you only really have to trace back one line.
I know I'm a descendant of Charlemagne, but that's just one of my ancestors. I can go back to pre-Roman Britain to find my earliest known ancestors. That ancestral line hung out with the invading Romans, and ended up being written about in surviving Roman records.
Призрак Отца Гамлета Unlikely. The dynasties of Egypt were extremely inbred to the point of the Spanish Habsburgs, and did not practice any exogamy officially. However...there is the chance through illegitimate children and cuckoldry. That is non-canonical history however, so it should not be depended upon.
I can't wait for 1000 years from now when we have near perfect genealogical records for almost everyone and can actually see these principles in action!
Doing genealogy, I discovered that many of my ancestors were enemies of one another. Claiming the same crown, same land, or same countries. Their descendants got together later ..... and here I am!
Same here, and was to weird to know at first. Wittekind and Charlemagne were enemies for about 15 years, the Basque people fought Charlemagne's Franks, then, Bartholomäus Blumelein and Francisco de Aguirre couldn't stand each other, and here I am 🙃!
Ancestry documents that I am related to almost every European royal family. I read about Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Robert De Brus, David I. of Scotland, the Stewarts, Wallaces, Alexanders, McDonalds, and all my other ancestors in history and know that their blood runs thru my veins. But so does the evil King John I of Robin Hood fame. We are all descendants of those same people. We are all cousins!
The way I see it, the "prestige" is not if you have royal blood or not but whether or not you can actually trace your lineage back to them. Usually only wealthier/nobler families had the interest or means for preserving their genealogy, so lesser known families get lost in history. Therefore if you can definitively connect yourself to any royal bloodlines, that's pretty impressive.
I did 23 and me and found out I’m a descendent of him which I’m shocked because I always knew I’m African American and Native American which it confirm but also a lot of European
That’s what I thought! Most of my close ancestors were ‘lower-class’ or extremely poor, so a lot of my family research came to dead ends, but any ‘noble’ ancestors I somehow happen to find makes me think it’s just a mistake of my amateur researching lmao
@@lsbett same here but my dad side has alot more wany people because my dad side mostly did bussis jobs but my mom side is mostly native American so i don't think i have any roly blood in me
@@lsbett mine too! All English ( as I am- found one Scot about 7 generations back!) and of humble stock as far as I can see. But as we can only go back a few generations ( unless we really want to spend a lot!) we don’t know what the ancestors were before that. I guess we have to think that we are probably descended from royalty, but that they had children who were illegitimate, or who married further down the ladder or whose fortunes failed. I think it’s just fascinating. I read a book on genetics which said that most English children being born then ( 2000-ish) of English descent are descendants of Edward III!
my great uncle published a book of geneology in the 1980s. I can prove I am the 11th cousin of Elizabeth 2 and 22 heads down from Edward 3. know what it's gotten me, NOTHING!!!!
@@markbaldwin9859 there are Muslim nations where cousin marriages are not acceptable, Albanians being one example. And from what I know in Kyrgyzstan are also not acceptable.
I'm Indonesian, and family last name is not a thing in my country, some ethnics have it but not the majority, so it's even harder to track back my ancestors. My mom is from a small village in the middle of nowhere, not near any port, so I just come to conclusion that my ancestors from mom's side came to the village during the hunter-gatherers time lol, not to mention almost all people in that village look identical, my mom is the first one in my family who moved out from there😭 Indonesia is disconnected from Eurasia too, for most people here, it's a small chance to have an ancestor that came from a faraway place like Europe, unless you're a mix kid with one European parent. There are many people who are the descendants of traders from Arab, India and China, they look distinctive from the majority of Indonesians, and I used to envy them cause at least they know where their ancestors came from. Also, I feel like it'd very interesting to track your ancestry if you live in a place where the Silk Road was once operated
Kalau dalam konteks Indonesia, ya berarti orang-orang Indonesia zaman sekarang keturunan dari raja-raja di Indonesia. Kalau di Jawa mungkin keturunan bangsawan Majapahit, Medang, Tarumanegara dll. Kalau di Sumatera mungkin keturunan bangsawan Sriwijaya, Melayu, dll. Di Kalimantan keturunan bangsawan kerjaan Kutai, dan seterusnya.
as a long time genealogist I know these theories well and once had a good example experience. Was in a genealogy library with about 10 other people. In conversation with one of the other researchers I mentioned my recently discovered connection to a reverend who was an early immigrant to America (abt 1630). She said "oh I'm related to him too"...and another researcher overhearing our conversation spoke up "me too". So 30% of the researchers in the room had confirm descendancy from the same individual and who knows how many hadnt yet reached him or didnt hear the conversation
@Taiwanlight yes kind of, but we have a website where we can track our family tree back to before the year 1000 so people mostly check it themselves. and also almost everyone in iceland are 8th cousins.
mixererunio One need only look at the official portrait of Carlos II in the Prado museum to understand why repetitive inbreeding over several generations is a big no-no.
@Ben McKean First cousins are only 12.5% similar and according to the chart in the video that's considered safe. Also, outbreeding depression doesn't exist in humans as we're all too closely related.
The fact that record keeping was so poor back then leading us to not know what our family trees are, makes me want to keep meticulous records of my own family tree and hope that my future descendants also keep this up so we can go back and know who was descended from who. Basically a big project handed down from generation to generation lol In a way making my family feel connected to the past and to their future descendants (tho I don't plan on having biological children, maybe adopting, which would screw up a family tree)
any tips? I've been trying but my family didn't keep great records but if what I do have is correct as well as ancestory nearly all of my ansestors are from France, England, Scotland and Ireland
@@annaborbon5425 well the Spaniards being Catholics were able to keep records and even more if you come from royalty . You should take advantage of having a rare surname which it’s makes it very easy on finding the right records start by building a family on your paternal side since I’m assuming is where your last name is coming from .
Unfortunately, the record burning free for all that happened in France, after the French Revolution distroyed the records that I could have used to trace my family back in Europe. Thanks a lot distant cousins.
@@elizagevorgyan3155 well, many wars in Poland, people in my family who didn't read and write and all that stuff... I don't even know where my grandparents were born, let alone the elder generations
Japanese Imperial Family: We can trace our lineage back to Emperor Jimmu Me after watching this video: Yeah dude that was 2600 years ago. Who isn't related to Uncle Jimmu?
@@dennyhebron3655 All the children of one person have the same degree of DNA passed down, just because someone isn't the eldest doesn't mean they are less of a descendant. This primogeniture thing is senseless.
thx this video was illuminating. I was going to live an easy life without ambition, but now that I know that I am linked to Charlemage, Ramses and virtually any other king/emperor in Europe I believe I have to restore my ancestors' legacy.
Barring some catastrophe to the family line. Families were much larger in pre-modern times. An example of a family that could have had such prospects was that of two of the most evil parents that ever lived: Joseph and Magda Goebbels. Magda Goebbels had a son by an earlier husband, and six by "Mister Venom". You can just imagine how many children those fine Aryan children would have sired or born had they become a sort of nobility in a world in which the Nazis won the war. The Nazis of course lost the war, and Josef and Magda chose to kill their children rather them fall into the custody of the Soviet Army. That once-promising line died out. In a time in which many people died of starvation and plagues, the aristocracy had all the advantages in passing on their genes. Note well the legend of the jus primae noctis, which likely had some truth behind it: the feudal lord had the right to deflower a peasant girl before her husband got him. In a world of primogeniture, any son of the feudal lord and a peasant had a huge advantage over children of the legitimate husband.
@@lucasm7781 And half of them died young or without offspring. Before smallpox vaccination, child mortality was crazy. Any family (rich or poor) who had all their children reach adulthood wood have been extremely lucky. Of course, rich people had better chances in some respects.
i just cant help but find it kinda funny how portugal has such a little amount of land on the peninsula compared to spain edit portugal almost looks like its carved out of spain
@Drakon you're mostly right, but don't call Spain as a nation. I understand your point, it's just a bad choice of words, as even today a significant part of the Spanish people doesn't even consider themselves Spanish. There are many nations in Spain, as is aknowledge by the Constitution. Portugal, for example, as been a nation since the 13th century, as the whole population share all the cultural features.
I have found several of my family lines hitting European royalty at about 600 years ago. In learning that, I have gained historical knowledge of these people. As I research each one, I find it very satisfying to research their life stories. That is where I find the value in the exercise.
I've been doing my family's history for 9 years now and can find that is very true. I have found that my own parents are 9th cousins and have several common ancestors on both sides of their family trees as a pure blooded French Canadian living in the United States of America. Both of my parents descends through a woman named Catherine de Baillon who was the daughter of Alphonse de Baillon, the Lord of Mascotterie and Louise de Marle, the Lady of Mascotterie from France. This family is the one family in my family tree that links me and many French Canadians who descends through this woman that links back to Charlemagne himself through the French Kings of the house of Capet. Catherine de Baillon was one of the Les Filles du Roi immigrant brides from France that arrived to New France during the 10 year period of 1663 to 1673 and she married in 1669 to Jacques Miville dit Deschenes. Which means she is the direct female ancestor of the French Canadian Deschenes family in French Canada. My great-great grandmother on my father's side is one of her direct descendants born in the 19th century she's the mother of my great grandmother my paternal grandfather's mother. My great-great grandmother's name was Flavie Deschenes she was married to my great-great grandfather Joseph Berube. So Catherine de Baillon and Jacques Miville dit Deschenes are one of the common ancestors that both my mother and father have in common in their family trees.
Chad St. Pierre how were you able to find out so much information about your family? Was it through genealogy tests or word of mouth? Or other means? (Sorry I’m just curious haha)
I have my own six degrees of separation from Charlie Chaplin: Chester Conklin, the actor who played the principle keystone cop with the walrus mustache in Chaplin's movies, is a close second cousin on my great-grandmother family tree.
"Persian historian Rashid al-Din recorded in his "Chronicles" that the legendary "glittering" ancestor of Genghis was tall, long-bearded, red-haired, and green-eyed.''
I did some study on my family-tree and found similar situations. On request of my cousin from Belgium I also traced back her mothers family. We share her fathers because he is a brother of my mother. At a certain point I saw names that sounded 'familiar'! At first they were only similar but of a different generation. But tracing my aunts family another two, and my fathers one generation further back, I discovered a shared couple. With that couple (around a.D. 1700) my father and aunt share all the ancestors of that couple as well. I found at least 20 lines to Charles the Great in my family-tree. As soon as you 'hit' nobility there is no escape. A study of the village Gemert in the Netherlands shows that the entire local population are descendants of Charlemagne. They are all related to the local Lords of around a.D. 1350 or to the knights of the Teutonic Order that slowly took over rulership, or to both, single or multiple times.
@@eliasholenhannouch807 Congratulations to have found all your family tree back to 1400! Some branches of mine get stuck in the registration change that occurred between 1795 and 1813 in my country. Especially of those who migrated during the French revolution and the following Napoleonic wars. Even small migrations, village to town or town to village, break the chain in registration, and I hate guesswork. It is a barrier many Dutch face during research. Trough DBT books (Baptize-Burial-Marriage) of the churches, I could trace the unstuck branches back to about 1600. There Dutch bump into the next barrier, because registration by the churches started around 1500, but until 1600 they can be incomplete. Before 1500 I have to study registered transactions. All those who did not have real estate or did not buy or sell real estate, cannot be traced. So my family tree gets very thin around 1500. But some family names where rare and passed that barrier. Because registration of transactions are extended, I could trace some back into the Middle Ages. In a registration not only the first and family name are mentioned but to identify the buyer or seller, his/her parents and grandparents are written down, together with the real estate concerned, and how that real estate was acquired in the past. Also prove that the real estate was legally theirs to begin with. Real estate is not only ground, but also rights, and duties between people. For example: One of my ancestors sold his miller rights of a watermill to a nobleman in exchange to duties to be paid to that nobleman. Reason: the watermill was within the territory of the nobleman and he could collect the duties easily. And the duties my ancestor acquired where in his proximity so collection was easier as well. The exchange was in both advantage. This registration of exchange of rights, also contained how they were acquired in the past. The miller rights were passed down father to son over two hundred years and originated from a split in inheritance. Both my ancestor and the nobleman involved had the same family origin and were related, though many generations in between. This also explained the family name of my ancestor, that looked 'out of place' for that region. One single registration gave me a jump of six generations into the past and a leap of more than 200 years. The list of father to son also made it possible to trace their whereabouts and what they did as profession. Also linked me to nobility originating in Charlemagne. It is nice to see an ancestor back in every history book and how the links go from long ago to the present day. So if you have farmers in 1400 who owned the lands they worked on, look into transaction registers to go further back in history.
If you were to use Gorm the Old's family line, the line allegedly making up the one of the oldest existing monarchies in the world. You would connect with Charlemagne, so you could take back the start of the tree 5+generations, and add Denmark, Which is a crucial piece to this graph, that is currently missing
@@joseh3564 French are descendants of peoples living in Gaul before the roman invasion, with some addition of roman blood, and later of Germanic blood, some Visigoth, and after Franks. But you have to keep in mind that peoples of Gauls were millions ( one of the biggest population in Europe ) while Franck were at best some tens thousand of peoples , and in most case they were living separated from the common peoples by making the nobility. Military invasion of a great country ( like France or Egypt ) does not mean replacement of the population.
Dammit, my great-aunt actually went to the trouble of researching records far back enough to tie our family to Charlemagne, and all I had to do was watch this video? Thanks for making my poor great-aunt labor in vain.
I'm related to Charlemagne through at least 6 of his close descendants, and thats only through one of my great great grandpas (each person has 16 great great grandparents) so I'm pretty sure everyone is.
I’ve actually done some ancestry tracing with my family. I currently have ~17,300 individual members traced so far and I found that Charlemagne is my 36th great grandfather. We are from Central America but going back just 5 generations, our ancestors are of European descent. Mostly English, Spanish and French. So I’m distant cousins with most if not all the royal families of Europe. Hola primos!
¡Hola!, en mi caso Carlomagno e Hidelgard son mis abuelos cuadragésimo primeros, por parte de su hijo Louis le Pieux - Ludovico Pío/Luis el "Pidoso" -. Primer comentario que dejo aquí en castellano.
@@Pauli8187 ¡Hola! Louis I fue mi trigésimo quinto bisabuelo y su hijo Lothar I fue mi trigésimo cuarto bisabuelo. Ermengarde, la hija de Lothar, fue mi trigésimo tercera bisabuela. :D
Hello cousins! My 33rd great grandfather was Baldwin II son of Baldwin I and Judith daughter of Charles the Bald who was Charlemagne grandson. What I discovered is there's a lot of following nobility mainly Frankish and Flannish ( France). I read while researching that if you have any European nobility ancestors you can lead it back to Charlemagne at some point. I guess that is true.
Today I ended up tracing my ancestry back to Charlemagne. He was my 42nd great-grandfather (if I counted right). I thought it was kind of cool even though I know everybody with European ancestry can do that. Though I think it's fun I also traced my ancestry to Anne Boleyn's great-grandfather. She's my 2nd cousin, 16 times removed (again, if I counted right). So we're basically siblings.
I declare myself emperor of new Rome having descended from julius caesar, and I demand a holy war against the heretics of North Sentinel Island who do not share holy blood
@@shmigely Ceasar had Julia and Julia had a son with pompeus magnus. but both died early. We are all related to Marc Antony. Marc Anthony had legitemet children with 3 wifes and probably hundrets of bastards. Antonia his daughter with Octavia was the founder of the julio-claudian dynasy. (Claudius, Germanicus, Caligula, Nero) The Antonin dynasty was descentend of Nerva , Antonys grand grand son descendent from his marriage with Fulvia (even when they were all gay and adopted there heir, they all adopted nephews(Hadrian, Trajan, Marc Aurel, Commodus) and the Seville dynasty descendent from his marriage with Cleopatra via some guy called Basil of Syria. Even most black people are related to Marc Antony. His daughter Cleopatra Selena become queen of Nubia.
Technically all Europeans are related. But I can only trace to balance punished for wanting to living another day. Germany must perish was planned and a text long before him. Loses to 500 BC, exterminated.
@@ElCerdoBlanco Why would you say such an inappropriate inaccurate thing, I wouldn’t expect you to understand much, but you would understand what it means to be Germanic or European. Or even what to be or not to be means. I don’t think he claimed to be a Scythian, I have blonde hair blue eyes and am tall, but blonde hair is a trait in many races it has nothing to do by itself with aryran. Are Indians Aryan? Are short petite women, are the people who voted or approved of him in 99% Germans, what’s your point but throwing mud poorly at the more heroic dead. Have you given much or gave all who else kept there word til the bitter end. Couldn’t be bought or blackmailing like the whores being selected for the identical enemy. Are you a slave? Answer just that, even if it’s just a wage slave or debt slave.
@@ElCerdoBlanco Ten years, 4 subs because of comments? Not videos. Do Hindus think you are an avatar of Vishnu and the return of Christ, or a Buddha, there are others who believe he was a god sent to save you. I’m not a believer in metaphysics. But I know how that feels, though didn’t deserve it.
@@Inspire836Think of it this way; by the time you get back to Charlemagne, say 39 to 45 generations, you have more than a trillion ancestors. The population of Earth at the time was around 250 million. It's plain and simple mathematics.
I read that all human beings on Earth are no distantly related genetically than 50th cousin. When you look at the Royal Family, that's not hard to figure out how that happened.
Everything you describe proved true when I worked on my own genealogy. Most of my ancestors lived in the same small villages, sometimes moving to the nearby ones, and married their 3rd or 4th degree cousins quite often. I even found the link with Charlemagne thanks to an ancestor who married a lady from a very well known (and documented) noble family. It was fascinating!
I discovered this when researching my own ancestry, and suspected the patterns were true of everyone else. What you described in the “second son” theory, is very true for my lineage. How many people are more “English” that the British royal family?
That wasnt really a franco german war it was a inner german war, France didnt fight that much. But there are noumerus other conflicts between Germany and France for sure
@@-zipfelkltsch3r-348 well it was a protestant-catholic fight with the catholic led by the habsburgs, which brought Spain in, which brought France to fight against it despite being catholic... its honestly pretty weird
@@-zipfelkltsch3r-348 yea its mainly german fighting each other while France fight Spain, peace between france and Spain only came after the end of the conflict in germany if i remember...
@@andrewr-s2040 i think he meant that Indians really know alott of relatives like have you heard of a Indian wedding that we have 700-1000 people in our weddings its because we invite everyone first cousins second cousins every realtive and we're well known of our relatives
I often rant about documentaries that talk about 'distant cousins' when they mean second cousins. My dad's first cousins had children... they are my second cousins. Not distant at all. The cousins at my childhood reunions, who were my age, were my third cousins and they all lived fairly near me. Oh and I think that 'cousin means first cousin' is weird.
@@nkarnok By definition, a “distant cousin” is a relative that is genetically distant from you, such as second cousins, third cousins, eighth cousins, etc. It has nothing to do with being personally familiar with that individual.
I have European, Asian, Polynesian, and Semitic ancestry. I did a chart of my family tree and was able to go back 12 generations in one branch. Around 1650 CE I had ancestors in 10 different countries, speaking 10 different languages, on 2 different continents and 4 different Polynesian islands, just living day to day.
And you (and I and every non-sub-Saharan African) have neanderthal ancestry (~2000 generations) :) If you have Polynesian ancestry, it means that you have also ancestry of Homo denisova.
So as a person living in Turkey, I should be in theory connected to Asian, Middle Eastern and European royal families. It would be really fun to trace that line if we had any records at all. People did not even have surnames 100 years ago and it is almost impossible to trace any family back more than 3 generations other than Ottoman nobility. But I really enjoyed the video anyway :)
I've actually found this to be true. It's so bizarre. I even found out that a few of my friends are actually decent cousins of mines, the more and more I work on my own family tree.
@@philo3838 All it takes is 1 bastard. Maybe a pharaoh had an affaire with his maid and she delivered her baby in secret or without knowing whos kid it was. the DNA will remember.
7:34 About the Six Degrees of Separation thing, one afternoon when I was messing around on the Oracle of Bacon site, I began to notice that most people were either two or three degrees away from Kevin Bacon. I think the same trend might apply to the more general application, as well.
That’s likely true. I’m Canadian of European descent, but can easily trace a 4-step connection to the emperor of Japan! It happens a friend of mine while travelling in Japan met the son of a cabinet minister in the govt of that time (1980s) and ended up staying with the family for several months. So he met that cabinet minister who surely had either met the emperor or at least met someone else who had. So from me to the emperor perhaps 3 or no more than 4 degrees of separation. (It takes me 6 steps to connect to Prince Charles, though.)
Through the same methods I have ancestors going back at least to the 5th century AD, but the country is Armenia. A newer genealogical website allows me to trace ancestors back to pre-Islamic Iran.
While I am proud of my heritage, and I love learning about my family history, I don’t let the actions or beliefs of my ancestors define me. I think it should be the same for most.
I grew up thinking that I was of Irish extraction, and being a history bug, read all of it with a rather anti-Brit perspective. Then I had the time, while on leave, to actually research my ancestry; I am75% Brit, 50% from Wiltshire, 25% from the Isle of Man with a little Norman tossed in, 1/8th Scot, 1/8 Irish, with a dash of Amerindian, Jewish and probably every other ethnicity imaginable. I am a mostly Anglo mutt, and I felt so ashamed for so long.
You know what. Even I don’t think you should be ashamed of your ancestors. Whether they were cruel kings or slave traders or murderers. Cause I’m the end of day. If you two were to meet, they would HATE YOU. Everyone’s ancestors would hate our generation for being openly accepting. They would hate how we commingled. How we speak English and not our true lingua like Gaelic, Welsh, Celtic. Think about it.
I am Nepali, if I met my x6 generation grandfather. He would punch my face for mingling with English society. For forgetting my native language. He would also hate me for having black and white friends. The same goes for every American and British person. Your ancestors would hate you as well. I find it bizarre that confederate enthusiasts think their x6 generation grandfather would think of them as friends. They wouldn’t. They lived in a far darker time of human history and this they would be far darker than anyone of us can imagine.
Or southerners. I grew up with so many third cousins, I even knew some fourth and fifth ones. pretty sure my entire little town was related one way or another. I married a guy who grew up 500 miles away, lol, dating classmates wasn't too appealing. 😁
@@ka4500 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So original. I guarantee if you checked your family tree, you wouldn't have to go back too far to find some cousin marriage. When you live your entire life in a 20 mile radius, you don't meet a lot of potential dates. So, people married neighbors and cousins. We're all a little inbred. Welcome to the club.
@@2HRTS1LOVE I agree. My dad's parents were from the same tiny isolated peasant town on top of a mountain in Italy. When they were born, the population was at its peak of 1300 residents (now it is
This is something I've been wondering about for some time. Especially the exponential increase of the number of ancestors. My maternal grandparents were big into genealogy after they retired, and made family trees for their own family, my father's family, and a lot of their friends' families. As a young boy really into knights and medieval history they would make me feel special by telling me I was a descendant of Richard the Lionheart, among others. I'm Dutch, and for the last 600 years they found mostly Dutch ancestors, but between 200 and 400 years ago also a Belgian line, an Italian line, and a Scottish line. So that corresponds to what is said in this video. Thank you for the clarification!
Ok I don't think they were being super serious but come on - how is them being religious so irritating? Also, it would be wrong to say you are 'descended' I believe, but if there was a historical Jesus you could still be related to them by their parents.
Thank you, this was such an interesting video, very well done. Years ago I read a book called 'The Seven Daughters of Eve' by Bryan Sykes where he talked about everyone on earth tracing back to only seven women via their mitrochondrial DNA, and those seven women tracing back to only one woman, 'the Mitrochondrial Eve'.
As a matter of fact: Adam and Eva had two male children says the Holy Bible. Then, one day Cain (after having killed his brother Abel) "knew his wife" and generated T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,.....WHICH wife did he make pregnant ? The only female thus present on earth was his own mother Eva. So Cain is the founder of Jewmanity by incest.
@@ezzovonachalm7038 dude do you read the bible? They had 3 sons that were mentioned by name, Abel, Cain and Seth, but they many more Genesis 3:20 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters. When they banished Cain, he took one of his sisters.
I found one of these convergences in my family tree. I was tracking one line and it went back to Anne of Glouchester from one of her marriages. Then I was tracing another line and there she was again from another marriage. I thought at the time, my tree is shrinking. My wife joked about me "descending from royalty," but I said at the time "everyone descends from royalty if you go back far enough." Thanks for the explanation.
As a Swede with two Swedish parents, I have found a direct connection to Charlmagne, and pretty much any royalty during that time period (and earlier). If you manage to find a noble ancestor the work becomes a lot easier as their genealogy is very well documented.
A few thoughts crossed my mind while watching this: Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip are third cousins through Queen Victoria and also second cousins once removed through Christian IV of Denmark. Next: Britain operates a system of diminishing titles - that means the titles don't carry on through all offspring. For example, a British Royal princess cannot pass her title on in any circumstance unless (basically) she is the monarch. The younger sons of monarchs are princes, their sons are also princes but in turn their sons are not princes, the princely line dies out. This system keeps the monarchy and the peerage extremely limited in numbers and future generations merge back into the general population so there are very many British commoners related to monarchy and aristocracy of old.
I can't begin to tell you how many times I got the "Ah Ha" look after describing genealogy as diamond shaped not a pyramid. Your connections to royalty, Charlemagne whomever is quite unremarkable, finding all of the links that get you there is however, quite remarkable.
It reminds me of how geneticists say every single person alive today with blue eyes is related to the first mutated person who lived near the Black Sea 10,000 years ago.
“People in Spain and Italy are even less likely to be connected to everyone else” haha jokes on you, on both my mom and dads sides of the family I have a great great Irish grandparent 😎
Being a genealogist, I talk allot about what I call the "spreading effect". Over time, your ancestry goes back to every place, every social group in that place, and every family in those groups. In the end, you are related to everybody. And it only takes a few thousand years.
I am a Canadian and love genealogy. My parents were both half French Canadian and half from the British Isles. French Canadian genealogy has been well documented by the Catholic church over the last 400-ish years and there are known ‘gateway’ ancestors who lead back to royalty. I have at least one gateway ancestor so I do have my tree back to Charlemagne.
I'm a Quebecer and my dna says 100% France (very boring) and doing my genealogy I keep coming back to the same 5 or so couples...pretty funny (1 very common one is Abraham Martin (Plaines d'abraham). Do you remember the gateway names or know where I can find them?
I traced my ancestors on my mother's side back to Charlemagne. I got back to 1725 fairly easily. When I got back to about 1000, it became very easy. Talked to a woman who was a descendant of those who came over on the Mayflower. She estimated there are 1 million alive.
Only the Netherlands is a real country among those three. Flemish is a dialect of Dutch; other Belgians are NE French. Luxembourg is about financial manipulation.
Am not any of the 3. Simply that it cannot be declared that the Netherlands isn't / wasn't a real country, which is true of the other 2. No matter, all of western Europe is finished anyway; the glory days are long gone. Crop losses & failures abound.
@earaza Belgium is a non-country invented as an office space for beaurocrats. I pity anyone who has the misfortune of being forced to call themselves Belgian.
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How ignorant of u, China doesn't represent entirity of asia
There is india too
@@prateeksharma6706 hes not saying all asians but most asians, im probably conected to an indian farmer somewhere in my bloodline or maybe a japanese emperor or maybe an arabic sultan, or even you we have a 99.99% chance of sharing a common ancsestor
The First humans in Africa (which gave rise to the rest of humanity): created the dynasty of all royals indeed: so really: everyone has them to thank for their blood...
@dimapez The video is about why everyone living in Europe in 1000 AD (or CE) were the common ancestors of everyone who has at least one European ancestor today. It is an interesting theory, and seems sound. I am unable to analyze such models and statistics, however, and am going by faith in the reporters. By the way, I did buy two of the posters on Eastern and Western royals because I'm an amateur history buff. I can't wait to see them!
My great great grandmother is a Red Scottish woman
So what you’re saying is I can press my claim and reform the Roman Empire?
I'd say give it a try. Though I would not hope too much to get a direct link to Caesar or Augustus. These times seem like very murdery for imperial descendants, when any are available.
@Stack Loot
Yes, and so are 7 bn others...
Sure, if you own all the cores.
Stack Loot Dunno, are you a glad-he-ate-her?
Dutch Man except A lot of Southern and Central Africans and Central Mountainous Indian and Chinese.
"There is no slave who does not descend from a king, there is no king who does not descend from a slave" - Plato
@mayhoth Are you even Human? Dude lay off the weed..
@mayhoth Isn't it from helen keller?
Yeah from the white side.😆😆😆
Actually, the meaning is pretty much the same.
Vindexproeliator Wow Vindex, very cool!
I'm in line for the English throne, the Caliphate, AND the head of the teacher's union in some small town in Portugal? I'm so special!
Portugal porra
So am i
You're only in line for the English throne if descended from Sophia of Hanover.
@@kets4443 if I look hard enough, it will be there.
@@bradyblackburn7877 You also must be a direct descendant as well, meaning only children to parent tracing can occur to form a legitimate line.
My dad (coming from a poor farmer family) traced back his lineage and found Charlemagne as well. My mom laughed at him and said: "You guys have fallen deeply".😂
Did he took a DNA test?
@@MAGNETO-i1i no. He just traced back his family lineage in a straight line with help from official family trees that are documented, and marriage and birth certificates.
I can trace my family tree to points where they connect to other trees online, and those goe back very long distances. But to me once I get beyond a couple of centuries or 5 6 generations there is no real connection as you dont know them. They are strangers that are only important that they lived to complete what makes you, but I have no sentimental relationship to the person.
For example my great grandad knew my grandad and I knew grandad. My great grandad knew his grandad, but I knew neither of them. Anything beyond that is even less a connection. In that distance from me there are 32 positions for that generation of my tree so each position makes 3.125% of what is me. So anything beyond that is virtually the same as the resr of the population of the world.
Your mom is Right
I traced mine to him as well. I had the DNA test. I'm even multi racial!
The Hapsburgs don’t have a family tree. They have a family circle.
A family line*
A family tree shaped like a diamond...
@@starventure like an olive branch
Lol got to steal that
The Hapsburg family tree is really a wreath...
I’m related to Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Leonidas - they’re my dad’s first cousins, and they run a souvlaki grill a couple of blocks down from my place.
SUCH AN UNDERRATED COMMENT!
A Hot Sauce - No one should ever forget Charlemagne.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 *epic music intensifies*
Pericles?
BurnV06 - Oh, Pericles is my cousin once removed - we call him Perry.
I wish it was possible to make a family tree of literally everyone to live
Sweet home Alabama
Well, if we manage to keep our current records, a couple hundred years from now the descendents of everyone currently alive will have quite a large one they could reference, even containing quite a few of our own ancestors. Still won't contain every link though. Some people are bound to get missed, especially in unfortunate cicumstances.
This is why we have FamilySearch.
Someone is keeping track of it, even if you don't believe it, which you won't anyway
Well, from now on it will be possible, with the power of internet and the government identification records, future generations will know who were their ancestors
In another 1000 years, we’re gonna see casually hyper realistic videos explaining why everyone’s related to Kanye West.
Oh no.
Could've picked anyone else LMAO
The future be looking very aryan
And they would probably be able to give you your exact family tree to prove it to you
Because around 1000 per year will get impregnated by his male descendants
I have been a genealogist for over 20 years, and I can seriously say that this is the clearest, most crisp, yes b e s t explanation I have ever seen, read or heard on this specific topic. Very, very well done.
Aside from the fact he threw both our countries in with France and Germany?
@@flamenco1961 Well, in Karolingian times, our respective countries were part of France, then Germany, so I didn't mind so much. This video isn't 'Yakko's World' ;-)
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I still don't trust the genealogical claims of Settipani, though. Charlemagne is one thing, antiquity is a whole other bowl of fish.
@@starventure You are quite right to be wary of those claims. A thoroughly documented descent from antiquity has yet to be proven.
I'm actually my own third cousin, that's why I look so much like myself.
So am I.
Are we the same?
😂
Wait how???
@@Alice-gr1kb his parents are second cousins. Lol
Hello, my royal cousins!
Hello . :)
Hi!
Hello.
Hey sis
Hello, neighbor prinses XXXD
On the subject of being hard to name second cousins: a friend of mine is in fact the result of a marriage between two second cousins. They didn't know they were second cousins until it was time to get married, the families all got together and realized a common long dead ancestor existed (almost inevitable as well, since the two families came from two close villages)
That happened on the TV show Community.
Perfectly legal
to be fair to my knowledge I'd never even met one of my second cousins until her grandmother's birthday party
growing up in my family we have so may cousins that the only distinction between cousins is first cousins and then every other cousin, because of this anytime I like someone or know of someone that gets with there like 7th cousin twice removed we view it as the same as someone getting with their first or second cousin 😂
it wasn't until recently that I started to look at it differently because of two people I found were my cousins
the first was a random kid in my high school who I had a class with and didn't talk to but found out that his like great grandma and my great grandpa were siblings which makes us third cousins but I felt weird about it so I never told him
the second time was when I found out an NFL player was cousin, I guess my great grandpa and his grandpa are brothers, and my grandpa and his dad grew up together and my grandpa even saw him when he was a kid because he went to high school in a nearby city. I've never met the dude so ultimately for me it always feels weird being like "that's my cousin" and it's like is a second cousin once removed really your cousin at that point?
I went to schoool with many 3rd and 4th cousins. Not considered family at all, just intermarriage in a relatively smaller city.
Everyone: Every generation the number of your ancestors doubles
Habsburgs: Acshually...
And that's why there are no male-line Habsburgs left today.
@@japanpanda2179 not of the senior line that went to rule in spain. The junior branch is still alive
@@Rakettivuori Nope, that's the Habsburg-Lorraine house, which is officially the heir to the Habsburg line, but in the male line they're descended from the Lorraines.
@@japanpanda2179 what about Karl ?
@@ezrahadwi135 Like I said, he's technically the heir to the Habsburg male line, but he isn't descended from them. He's descended from Joseph II of Austria. Joseph's father was of the house of Lorraine, and his mother was of the Habsburgs. He is thus the heir of the Habsburgs but is actually a Lorraine. There are no male-line Habsburgs alive today.
Thanks for mentioning we are related to an 1000 year old peasant.
hello cousin
Yo man. I guess we're related. See you at the next reunion
LOL!
@@Pokemonleafmon
a little reunion with millions of peoples, all cousins. :-)
But it is harder to have a trace of the ascendancy from peasants in most cases the more we go back in the generations.
While for the nobility there are record of the history of the family.
It is easier to trace back until Charlemagne , than to the peasant Johan living in a little village at some kilometers of the castle of Charlemagne.
Fun fact: 6 degrees of separation applies exactly with regards to my parents. My parents, my grandma, and I did an ancestry DNA test and it turns out that my parents are related 6 generations back through some guy who murdered his wife. Cool!
Dude, one of your ancestor literally killed someone and you said cool.
@@Fisinocean I don't *literally* think murder is a good thing, I was saying that jokingly. Out of all the types of people it could've been, it ended up being a murderer, and I find the situation kind of amusing and absurd. 😂
@@voxinsocks8790 TBH, probably everyone in this world has an ancestor that was a murderer,
I found out that one of my ancestors married the daughter of a person who murdered a mass number of indigenous...now I hate myself...
@@alexa4673 why would you hate yourself though ?, its like a long time ago, how the hell did that going to affect your personality?
I always thought the 6° of separation would make a really fun show where people around the world could try to find the connection between them or someone picks a random celebrity and does the same. I think it’s fascinating And I wish someone would do it :-)
This was actually done in Norway a couple years back (on NRK). Famous norwegians teamed up in pairs and got shipped to different distant places in the world and attempted to find five persons who could link them to another famous person waiting to see if they could manage it in a certain timeframe. It was superfun to watch.
@@miaowsen do you have a link to a rerun or smth? I’d love to watch that.
There should be a website that finds the connection between you and a random person in the world.
@@charliedegiulio9951 I did that on MySpace! One guy and I were making each other crack up on Tom Lennon's page so much, we became friends and he was into genealogy, same as my sister and we're distant cousins. He gets his essential Tremor from Kate Hepburn, whom he met in passing before he found out they were kin. Not that he would have left his husband for her, but... LOL
5:19 that ain't a family tree that's a family square
latin enthusiast that’s a family rectangle
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
An incest square.
latin enthusiast
Literally.
wait till you look at the actual family tree it turns into a circle
I visited my ancestral home of Stirling Castle in Scotland and inquired where I could claim my inheritance, but was rather ignored. So I enjoyed the tour anyway.
Lol
@@johnedington6083 You may choose to think I’ll of others. Than doesn’t make it so. But it might make you the narcissist.
@@johnedington6083 I did 23 and me and it shows I’m a descendent of him as well it traced that far back I was shocked because I always knew I’m African American and Native American but it also showed a lot of European as well
Hello family
And they didn't even serve you any food and drinks knowing that you are one of their kin?
Wait, so I am related to every European before 1000 years ago?
Ya boy about to cross the Rubicon and reclaim Rome.
Caesars descendents didn’t survive
Vindexproeliator Yes I know, but considering that the ancient Roman empire was around hundreds and hundreds of years before the holy Roman empire, I would assume I am also related to people from then. And considering that Charlemaine was declared holy Roman emperor when he took Rome, I think my comment works either way.
@@naggu1243
i have found a family tree of European nobility, and i can't trace back to Cesar with the data they have, while i have some other Roman emperors in the ancestries , but younger. On the other hand "i can" reclaim the Persian Empire of the Sassanian .
You are related to everyone who came after 1000ad
Spartacus rebellion
Just have to say, this video is incredibly well done. Lots of important ideas communicated very clearly, great imagery, great examples, great narration. Awesome stuff
There were 102 people on the "Mayflower" when it landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Some were married couples, and some married each other or later arrivals. From them came 29 bloodlines with descendants today. How many descendants? Over 30,000,000, or approximately one tenth of the current US population. This is why "The DaVinci Code" plot was so wrong. Instead of a secret Catholic organization trying to eradicate the last few living descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalen, the task would have been impossible, as they would have to eradicate just about everyone with on earth, including themselves.
It's nice that some people could trace their family back to 800 A.D.
SpockBorg5 i don know who my great grandparents are
@@floridaman3241 your parents don't know who their grandparents are?
It gets easier the far back you go if you use a genealogy website, because other people have already researched those older lineages. I did mine several years ago to trace the English portion of my heritage. After getting back to my great grandfather's generation I found more and more other people whose research gave me information to go back all the way to Charlemagne. Turns out the Carpenter family (maternal grandmother's side) originates with William the Carpenter, a french nobleman who was a deserter during the Crusades. The french family originated in Germany with Charlemagne's line and then moved to england before coming to the US in the 1600s. It's just a matter of going back four or five generations, but here's the thing, you only really have to trace back one line.
I know I'm a descendant of Charlemagne, but that's just one of my ancestors. I can go back to pre-Roman Britain to find my earliest known ancestors. That ancestral line hung out with the invading Romans, and ended up being written about in surviving Roman records.
It is easier if by using genealogy, you find a little noble ancestor.
All the nobility in Europe is related to Charlemagne.
So what you're saying is: I should go to Egypt and demand my birthright as a pharaoh.
Призрак Отца Гамлета Unlikely. The dynasties of Egypt were extremely inbred to the point of the Spanish Habsburgs, and did not practice any exogamy officially. However...there is the chance through illegitimate children and cuckoldry. That is non-canonical history however, so it should not be depended upon.
@@starventure r/woosh
Liam Hackney r/ihavereddit
Your claim was lost on succesion so long ago that you can no longer press it.
Pharaohs have lost right to rule.
Excuse me while I go and claim some thrones
You are too late. Some people already did. :D
@@monamuller8969 I'm black, but I have West-Europe forefathers. Does that mean I can claim the throne to?
fellow albanian-italian here, rome is mine now.
New King what website did you use?
@New King Have you traced every branch of your ancestry?
I can't wait for 1000 years from now when we have near perfect genealogical records for almost everyone and can actually see these principles in action!
Doing genealogy, I discovered that many of my ancestors were enemies of one another. Claiming the same crown, same land, or same countries. Their descendants got together later ..... and here I am!
Romeo and Juliet :p
Similar with my ancestors. Many of my Irish ancestors - High Kings - killed each other for the throne.
Same here, and was to weird to know at first.
Wittekind and Charlemagne were enemies for about 15 years, the Basque people fought Charlemagne's Franks, then, Bartholomäus Blumelein and Francisco de Aguirre couldn't stand each other, and here I am 🙃!
Ancestry documents that I am related to almost every European royal family. I read about Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Robert De Brus, David I. of Scotland, the Stewarts, Wallaces, Alexanders, McDonalds, and all my other ancestors in history and know that their blood runs thru my veins. But so does the evil King John I of Robin Hood fame. We are all descendants of those same people. We are all cousins!
Duncan I and Malcom Canmore III were my ancestors. And I knew this when I had to read McBeth in HS.
The way I see it, the "prestige" is not if you have royal blood or not but whether or not you can actually trace your lineage back to them. Usually only wealthier/nobler families had the interest or means for preserving their genealogy, so lesser known families get lost in history. Therefore if you can definitively connect yourself to any royal bloodlines, that's pretty impressive.
I did 23 and me and found out I’m a descendent of him which I’m shocked because I always knew I’m African American and Native American which it confirm but also a lot of European
That’s what I thought! Most of my close ancestors were ‘lower-class’ or extremely poor, so a lot of my family research came to dead ends, but any ‘noble’ ancestors I somehow happen to find makes me think it’s just a mistake of my amateur researching lmao
@@lsbett same here but my dad side has alot more wany people because my dad side mostly did bussis jobs but my mom side is mostly native American so i don't think i have any roly blood in me
@@lsbett mine too! All English ( as I am- found one Scot about 7 generations back!) and of humble stock as far as I can see. But as we can only go back a few generations ( unless we really want to spend a lot!) we don’t know what the ancestors were before that. I guess we have to think that we are probably descended from royalty, but that they had children who were illegitimate, or who married further down the ladder or whose fortunes failed. I think it’s just fascinating. I read a book on genetics which said that most English children being born then ( 2000-ish) of English descent are descendants of Edward III!
my great uncle published a book of geneology in the 1980s. I can prove I am the 11th cousin of Elizabeth 2 and 22 heads down from Edward 3. know what it's gotten me, NOTHING!!!!
Calculating the number of ancestors you have gets much trickier in Alabama and Westeros...
Derrek Irwin was gonna comment something like this but you got it before me
Or If You're A Habsburg
*laughs loudly* Well done sir! :D
Derrek Irwin what about any nation with Islam as there religion. don't just say Alabama as there no other nation with inbreeding
@@markbaldwin9859 there are Muslim nations where cousin marriages are not acceptable, Albanians being one example. And from what I know in Kyrgyzstan are also not acceptable.
I'm Indonesian, and family last name is not a thing in my country, some ethnics have it but not the majority, so it's even harder to track back my ancestors. My mom is from a small village in the middle of nowhere, not near any port, so I just come to conclusion that my ancestors from mom's side came to the village during the hunter-gatherers time lol, not to mention almost all people in that village look identical, my mom is the first one in my family who moved out from there😭
Indonesia is disconnected from Eurasia too, for most people here, it's a small chance to have an ancestor that came from a faraway place like Europe, unless you're a mix kid with one European parent. There are many people who are the descendants of traders from Arab, India and China, they look distinctive from the majority of Indonesians, and I used to envy them cause at least they know where their ancestors came from.
Also, I feel like it'd very interesting to track your ancestry if you live in a place where the Silk Road was once operated
Kalau dalam konteks Indonesia, ya berarti orang-orang Indonesia zaman sekarang keturunan dari raja-raja di Indonesia. Kalau di Jawa mungkin keturunan bangsawan Majapahit, Medang, Tarumanegara dll. Kalau di Sumatera mungkin keturunan bangsawan Sriwijaya, Melayu, dll. Di Kalimantan keturunan bangsawan kerjaan Kutai, dan seterusnya.
as a long time genealogist I know these theories well and once had a good example experience. Was in a genealogy library with about 10 other people. In conversation with one of the other researchers I mentioned my recently discovered connection to a reverend who was an early immigrant to America (abt 1630). She said "oh I'm related to him too"...and another researcher overhearing our conversation spoke up "me too". So 30% of the researchers in the room had confirm descendancy from the same individual and who knows how many hadnt yet reached him or didnt hear the conversation
Douglas W James Peck, James Fitch?
I’m curious, how well does this theory apply to conclaves like those formed by European Jews?
@@cartologist Actually Rev Stephen Batchelder 1561-1656 (spelled many different ways)
@@hirshja probably less applicable to such groups...however it is doubtful that any individual is 100% anything in 2020
@@hirshja All it takes is one person to marry (or copulate) into the community and the link is formed.
14,000 people (slaves included) settled in Iceland 12 centuries ago now we are 300,000 now that’s inbreeding.
a few thousand years ago there were only 1000 people and now we're with 7 billion. now THAT's inbreeding ;-)
@Taiwanlight yes kind of, but we have a website where we can track our family tree back to before the year 1000 so people mostly check it themselves. and also almost everyone in iceland are 8th cousins.
Try the isolated pacific islands with a few hundred people or less
Jitske Maekelberg you mean hundreds of millions of people
everything after 5th cousins is not related
"That's inbreeding. And not only is it gross, it's unhealthy"
The wisdom is strong with this one
Habsburgs and Targaryns didn't like that
mixererunio One need only look at the official portrait of Carlos II in the Prado museum to understand why repetitive inbreeding over several generations is a big no-no.
*chuckles in CK2*
@Ben McKean First cousins are only 12.5% similar and according to the chart in the video that's considered safe.
Also, outbreeding depression doesn't exist in humans as we're all too closely related.
@ Grigoris Karelis wheres the fun in that? Plus high-yellers sell for 4 times as much.
The fact that record keeping was so poor back then leading us to not know what our family trees are, makes me want to keep meticulous records of my own family tree and hope that my future descendants also keep this up so we can go back and know who was descended from who. Basically a big project handed down from generation to generation lol In a way making my family feel connected to the past and to their future descendants (tho I don't plan on having biological children, maybe adopting, which would screw up a family tree)
I spent about 2 weeks during quarantine and did trace my line to Charlemagne. This is actually really fascinating to me.
Me too! Its a really fun project.
any tips? I've been trying but my family didn't keep great records but if what I do have is correct as well as ancestory nearly all of my ansestors are from France, England, Scotland and Ireland
Id like to know as well
@@annaborbon5425 haha, i have a 5x great grandmother named claudine bourbon from france, born during the revolution
@@annaborbon5425 well the Spaniards being Catholics were able to keep records and even more if you come from royalty . You should take advantage of having a rare surname which it’s makes it very easy on finding the right records start by building a family on your paternal side since I’m assuming is where your last name is coming from .
Unfortunately, the record burning free for all that happened in France, after the French Revolution distroyed the records that I could have used to trace my family back in Europe. Thanks a lot distant cousins.
Please, armenian genocide and Stalin destroyed everything anyone in my country could use to track down their ancestors😊
@@elizagevorgyan3155 well, many wars in Poland, people in my family who didn't read and write and all that stuff... I don't even know where my grandparents were born, let alone the elder generations
Same with the thirty years war for me, kind of sucks
The fall of Rome destroyed all I could have found
I’m the descendant of Slaves, Spanish Colonists and Island Natives. I got no fuckin clue where to even begin
Japanese Imperial Family: We can trace our lineage back to Emperor Jimmu
Me after watching this video: Yeah dude that was 2600 years ago. Who isn't related to Uncle Jimmu?
But they're direct descendants
At least, that's my understanding
@@lonelittlejerry917 What makes a direct descendant? inbreeding??
@@lucas9269 primogenature
Naruhito is the eldest son of the eldest son etc all the way back
@@dennyhebron3655 All the children of one person have the same degree of DNA passed down, just because someone isn't the eldest doesn't mean they are less of a descendant. This primogeniture thing is senseless.
thx this video was illuminating. I was going to live an easy life without ambition, but now that I know that I am linked to Charlemage, Ramses and virtually any other king/emperor in Europe I believe I have to restore my ancestors' legacy.
one day in the distant future, if i have kids, everyone on earth will descend from me
If the human race survives that long
@Hana Yancey Easy peasy that my friend. Just do it like the Hapsburg. Have a kid with your kid. I know I'm a genious xD
Barring some catastrophe to the family line. Families were much larger in pre-modern times.
An example of a family that could have had such prospects was that of two of the most evil parents that ever lived: Joseph and Magda Goebbels. Magda Goebbels had a son by an earlier husband, and six by "Mister Venom". You can just imagine how many children those fine Aryan children would have sired or born had they become a sort of nobility in a world in which the Nazis won the war. The Nazis of course lost the war, and Josef and Magda chose to kill their children rather them fall into the custody of the Soviet Army. That once-promising line died out.
In a time in which many people died of starvation and plagues, the aristocracy had all the advantages in passing on their genes. Note well the legend of the jus primae noctis, which likely had some truth behind it: the feudal lord had the right to deflower a peasant girl before her husband got him. In a world of primogeniture, any son of the feudal lord and a peasant had a huge advantage over children of the legitimate husband.
Not really. This work bc the people in ancient age had really huge familys and a lot of children
@@lucasm7781 And half of them died young or without offspring. Before smallpox vaccination, child mortality was crazy. Any family (rich or poor) who had all their children reach adulthood wood have been extremely lucky. Of course, rich people had better chances in some respects.
Look at all of us, blood of my blood, my kin...
Ham Sarris
Hey cousin ^__^
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"Spain and italy"
*covers all iberia*
*cries in portuguese*
ikr TT
"France and Germany"
*covers also belgium, the netherlands, luxembourg, switserland, parts of austria*
@@mistyminnie5922 Most of those countries are relatively new creations and wouldn't have existed in the time of Charlemagne.
i just cant help but find it kinda funny how portugal has such a little amount of land on the peninsula compared to spain
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portugal almost looks like its carved out of spain
@@sirpsychosecksi4953 what an interesting theory...
@Drakon you're mostly right, but don't call Spain as a nation. I understand your point, it's just a bad choice of words, as even today a significant part of the Spanish people doesn't even consider themselves Spanish. There are many nations in Spain, as is aknowledge by the Constitution. Portugal, for example, as been a nation since the 13th century, as the whole population share all the cultural features.
I have found several of my family lines hitting European royalty at about 600 years ago. In learning that, I have gained historical knowledge of these people. As I research each one, I find it very satisfying to research their life stories. That is where I find the value in the exercise.
I've been doing my family's history for 9 years now and can find that is very true. I have found that my own parents are 9th cousins and have several common ancestors on both sides of their family trees as a pure blooded French Canadian living in the United States of America. Both of my parents descends through a woman named Catherine de Baillon who was the daughter of Alphonse de Baillon, the Lord of Mascotterie and Louise de Marle, the Lady of Mascotterie from France. This family is the one family in my family tree that links me and many French Canadians who descends through this woman that links back to Charlemagne himself through the French Kings of the house of Capet. Catherine de Baillon was one of the Les Filles du Roi immigrant brides from France that arrived to New France during the 10 year period of 1663 to 1673 and she married in 1669 to Jacques Miville dit Deschenes. Which means she is the direct female ancestor of the French Canadian Deschenes family in French Canada. My great-great grandmother on my father's side is one of her direct descendants born in the 19th century she's the mother of my great grandmother my paternal grandfather's mother. My great-great grandmother's name was Flavie Deschenes she was married to my great-great grandfather Joseph Berube. So Catherine de Baillon and Jacques Miville dit Deschenes are one of the common ancestors that both my mother and father have in common in their family trees.
Inbred
Cool
Dude your Family tree needs an episode of its own 🙇🏾♂️
So u related to Justin Trudeau? Or Celine Dion?😂😂
Chad St. Pierre how were you able to find out so much information about your family? Was it through genealogy tests or word of mouth? Or other means? (Sorry I’m just curious haha)
For some reason, I said Charlie Chapman. Obviously, it should be Charlie Chaplin. Silly me.
Thanks for sharing these videos and your voice is very relaxing I also fell asleep
I have my own six degrees of separation from Charlie Chaplin: Chester Conklin, the actor who played the principle keystone cop with the walrus mustache in Chaplin's movies, is a close second cousin on my great-grandmother family tree.
Piper Chapman
"Persian historian Rashid al-Din recorded in his "Chronicles" that the legendary "glittering" ancestor of Genghis was tall, long-bearded, red-haired, and green-eyed.''
Do a Mayan royal family tree
I did some study on my family-tree and found similar situations.
On request of my cousin from Belgium I also traced back her mothers family.
We share her fathers because he is a brother of my mother.
At a certain point I saw names that sounded 'familiar'!
At first they were only similar but of a different generation.
But tracing my aunts family another two, and my fathers one generation further back, I discovered a shared couple.
With that couple (around a.D. 1700) my father and aunt share all the ancestors of that couple as well.
I found at least 20 lines to Charles the Great in my family-tree.
As soon as you 'hit' nobility there is no escape.
A study of the village Gemert in the Netherlands shows that the entire local population are descendants of Charlemagne. They are all related to the local Lords of around a.D. 1350 or to the knights of the Teutonic Order that slowly took over rulership, or to both, single or multiple times.
@centervilletn
Maybe. The spouse of my cousin in Gent (Belgium) also has the family name DeSmet.
@sploofmonkey
Correct, the world is filled with idiots.
Holy shit hoe weet je dit allemaal?
My family tree goes back to about 1400 on all sides. However, they are all farmers. Not a single nobleman.
@@eliasholenhannouch807
Congratulations to have found all your family tree back to 1400!
Some branches of mine get stuck in the registration change that occurred between 1795 and 1813 in my country.
Especially of those who migrated during the French revolution and the following Napoleonic wars. Even small migrations, village to town or town to village, break the chain in registration, and I hate guesswork.
It is a barrier many Dutch face during research.
Trough DBT books (Baptize-Burial-Marriage) of the churches, I could trace the unstuck branches back to about 1600.
There Dutch bump into the next barrier, because registration by the churches started around 1500, but until 1600 they can be incomplete.
Before 1500 I have to study registered transactions. All those who did not have real estate or did not buy or sell real estate, cannot be traced.
So my family tree gets very thin around 1500.
But some family names where rare and passed that barrier.
Because registration of transactions are extended, I could trace some back into the Middle Ages. In a registration not only the first and family name are mentioned but to identify the buyer or seller, his/her parents and grandparents are written down, together with the real estate concerned, and how that real estate was acquired in the past. Also prove that the real estate was legally theirs to begin with.
Real estate is not only ground, but also rights, and duties between people.
For example: One of my ancestors sold his miller rights of a watermill to a nobleman in exchange to duties to be paid to that nobleman.
Reason: the watermill was within the territory of the nobleman and he could collect the duties easily. And the duties my ancestor acquired where in his proximity so collection was easier as well. The exchange was in both advantage.
This registration of exchange of rights, also contained how they were acquired in the past. The miller rights were passed down father to son over two hundred years and originated from a split in inheritance. Both my ancestor and the nobleman involved had the same family origin and were related, though many generations in between. This also explained the family name of my ancestor, that looked 'out of place' for that region.
One single registration gave me a jump of six generations into the past and a leap of more than 200 years. The list of father to son also made it possible to trace their whereabouts and what they did as profession. Also linked me to nobility originating in Charlemagne.
It is nice to see an ancestor back in every history book and how the links go from long ago to the present day.
So if you have farmers in 1400 who owned the lands they worked on, look into transaction registers to go further back in history.
If you were to use Gorm the Old's family line, the line allegedly making up the one of the oldest existing monarchies in the world. You would connect with Charlemagne, so you could take back the start of the tree 5+generations, and add Denmark, Which is a crucial piece to this graph, that is currently missing
Me, not being able to afford rent in a one bedroom: I'm royalty, y'all
Royalty are Reptilian.
@@AverageAmerican That means everyone is reptilian
@@xptaco2298 You're saying everyone is royalty? _hehehe_ Okay, well, not everyone are Japhetite, or serpent seed...
@@AverageAmerican facts
@@AverageAmerican You probably are only saying that because of Elizabeth's freakishly good health for her age.
So you're saying I, a german, am related to french people? Fake news!
No! Me too. This is terrible!!
Aren't French descendants of Franks, a Germanic tribe?
French and Germans are complete war machines and extremely closely related. why the hate lmao
@@joseh3564
French are descendants of peoples living in Gaul before the roman invasion, with some addition of roman blood, and later of Germanic blood, some Visigoth, and after Franks.
But you have to keep in mind that peoples of Gauls were millions ( one of the biggest population in Europe ) while Franck were at best some tens thousand of peoples , and in most case they were living separated from the common peoples by making the nobility.
Military invasion of a great country ( like France or Egypt ) does not mean replacement of the population.
I heard French Poodles are actually German, also the English language is Germanic.
Dammit, my great-aunt actually went to the trouble of researching records far back enough to tie our family to Charlemagne, and all I had to do was watch this video? Thanks for making my poor great-aunt labor in vain.
But, but, but.. that was before the internet!
But now you have the actual names to go with the maths.
I'm related to Charlemagne through at least 6 of his close descendants, and thats only through one of my great great grandpas (each person has 16 great great grandparents) so I'm pretty sure everyone is.
@@allisonskitchen4420, so, hi cousin!, in my case because of the line I could trace, Charlemagne and Hidelgard are my 41st GGPs.
@@allisonskitchen4420 alabama intensifies
As a genealogist, I just want to say well done on explaining this complex topic.
Genghis Khan: *sweating nervously*
35% of Mongolians are descendants of Genghis Khan.
@@nightprowler6336 that man had hundreds of kids
We would probably call Genghis one of those 'well connected individuals' in the network diagram. ^_^;
@@nightprowler6336 1 in every 200 people worldwide are descendants of Gengis Khan
No child support 🙄
I’ve actually done some ancestry tracing with my family. I currently have ~17,300 individual members traced so far and I found that Charlemagne is my 36th great grandfather. We are from Central America but going back just 5 generations, our ancestors are of European descent. Mostly English, Spanish and French. So I’m distant cousins with most if not all the royal families of Europe. Hola primos!
¡Hola!, en mi caso Carlomagno e Hidelgard son mis abuelos cuadragésimo primeros, por parte de su hijo Louis le Pieux - Ludovico Pío/Luis el "Pidoso" -.
Primer comentario que dejo aquí en castellano.
@@Pauli8187 ¡Hola! Louis I fue mi trigésimo quinto bisabuelo y su hijo Lothar I fue mi trigésimo cuarto bisabuelo. Ermengarde, la hija de Lothar, fue mi trigésimo tercera bisabuela. :D
hey, charlemagne's my 40th great grandfather! we're c o u s i n s
Hello cousins! My 33rd great grandfather was Baldwin II son of Baldwin I and Judith daughter of Charles the Bald who was Charlemagne grandson. What I discovered is there's a lot of following nobility mainly Frankish and Flannish ( France). I read while researching that if you have any European nobility ancestors you can lead it back to Charlemagne at some point. I guess that is true.
How the heck did you trace 17K+ individuals
Does this mean that my crush is my cousin?
*A L A B A M A I N T E N S I F I E S*
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Alabama the bootiful
Doc Opossum Source? Everything I see says Alaska, West Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas.
Where the skies are so bluuuuue.
Technically all living things are distant cousins.
Today I ended up tracing my ancestry back to Charlemagne. He was my 42nd great-grandfather (if I counted right). I thought it was kind of cool even though I know everybody with European ancestry can do that.
Though I think it's fun I also traced my ancestry to Anne Boleyn's great-grandfather. She's my 2nd cousin, 16 times removed (again, if I counted right). So we're basically siblings.
I declare myself emperor of new Rome having descended from julius caesar, and I demand a holy war against the heretics of North Sentinel Island who do not share holy blood
Caeser didn't have any kids (unless they were illegitimate ones lost to history)
Aye my liege
Aye, I claim my right to divine rule pictland is mine!!!!!
@@shmigely He did have Ceaserion but Augustus had him killed
@@shmigely Ceasar had Julia and Julia had a son with pompeus magnus. but both died early. We are all related to Marc Antony. Marc Anthony had legitemet children with 3 wifes and probably hundrets of bastards. Antonia his daughter with Octavia was the founder of the julio-claudian dynasy. (Claudius, Germanicus, Caligula, Nero) The Antonin dynasty was descentend of Nerva , Antonys grand grand son descendent from his marriage with Fulvia (even when they were all gay and adopted there heir, they all adopted nephews(Hadrian, Trajan, Marc Aurel, Commodus) and the Seville dynasty descendent from his marriage with Cleopatra via some guy called Basil of Syria. Even most black people are related to Marc Antony. His daughter Cleopatra Selena become queen of Nubia.
BREAKING: “Matt Baker descended from Coliseum janitorial staff”
Jan Sitkowski sad
Hitler watching this video is like:
Nein nein nein nein
Technically all Europeans are related. But I can only trace to balance punished for wanting to living another day. Germany must perish was planned and a text long before him. Loses to 500 BC, exterminated.
Well, Hitler claimed to be arian even though he was small and had brown hair 🤔 ... at least nobody can claim he's a descendant of Hitler.
JA JA JA JA JA JA!
@@ElCerdoBlanco Why would you say such an inappropriate inaccurate thing, I wouldn’t expect you to understand much, but you would understand what it means to be Germanic or European. Or even what to be or not to be means. I don’t think he claimed to be a Scythian, I have blonde hair blue eyes and am tall, but blonde hair is a trait in many races it has nothing to do by itself with aryran. Are Indians Aryan? Are short petite women, are the people who voted or approved of him in 99% Germans, what’s your point but throwing mud poorly at the more heroic dead. Have you given much or gave all who else kept there word til the bitter end. Couldn’t be bought or blackmailing like the whores being selected for the identical enemy. Are you a slave? Answer just that, even if it’s just a wage slave or debt slave.
@@ElCerdoBlanco Ten years, 4 subs because of comments? Not videos. Do Hindus think you are an avatar of Vishnu and the return of Christ, or a Buddha, there are others who believe he was a god sent to save you. I’m not a believer in metaphysics. But I know how that feels, though didn’t deserve it.
After twenty years studying my own genealogy, I can honestly say tracing my direct lineage to Charlemagne was the easy part.
Any advice because I’m not finding it easy
@@Inspire836Think of it this way; by the time you get back to Charlemagne, say 39 to 45 generations, you have more than a trillion ancestors. The population of Earth at the time was around 250 million. It's plain and simple mathematics.
@@Otaku155 did you watch the video 😑
@The Great Otaku huh
@@Inspire836 All I can say is of the 20 years I have spent working on it, getting to Charlemagne accounted for the first five.
Cool, so that means you're my really distant cousin! Hey cus!
I read that all human beings on Earth are no distantly related genetically than 50th cousin. When you look at the Royal Family, that's not hard to figure out how that happened.
Everything you describe proved true when I worked on my own genealogy. Most of my ancestors lived in the same small villages, sometimes moving to the nearby ones, and married their 3rd or 4th degree cousins quite often. I even found the link with Charlemagne thanks to an ancestor who married a lady from a very well known (and documented) noble family. It was fascinating!
Which noble family is it?
@@celestialorb1680 Something he pulled out of his ass
My favorite line on this topic is from Bill Bryson: "You couldn't be here without a little incest - actually quite a lot of incest..."
I discovered this when researching my own ancestry, and suspected the patterns were true of everyone else.
What you described in the “second son” theory, is very true for my lineage.
How many people are more “English” that the British royal family?
“France & Germany... had lots of interaction...”
30 Years’ War: *_Sweats_*
That wasnt really a franco german war it was a inner german war, France didnt fight that much. But there are noumerus other conflicts between Germany and France for sure
@@-zipfelkltsch3r-348 well it was a protestant-catholic fight with the catholic led by the habsburgs, which brought Spain in, which brought France to fight against it despite being catholic... its honestly pretty weird
@@Freedmoon44 But its mainly a german war with other nations just joining in...
@@-zipfelkltsch3r-348 yea its mainly german fighting each other while France fight Spain, peace between france and Spain only came after the end of the conflict in germany if i remember...
@@Freedmoon44 Wasn’t France allied with the goddamn Ottoman Empire at some point for some weird reason?
"Most people would be hard pressed to name their second cousins let alone their third cousins"
Me: laughs in Indian
Could you explain us what is the joke please?
@@andrewr-s2040 i think he meant that Indians really know alott of relatives like have you heard of a Indian wedding that we have 700-1000 people in our weddings its because we invite everyone first cousins second cousins every realtive and we're well known of our relatives
Same for my mexican family!
I often rant about documentaries that talk about 'distant cousins' when they mean second cousins. My dad's first cousins had children... they are my second cousins. Not distant at all. The cousins at my childhood reunions, who were my age, were my third cousins and they all lived fairly near me. Oh and I think that 'cousin means first cousin' is weird.
@@nkarnok By definition, a “distant cousin” is a relative that is genetically distant from you, such as second cousins, third cousins, eighth cousins, etc. It has nothing to do with being personally familiar with that individual.
I have European, Asian, Polynesian, and Semitic ancestry. I did a chart of my family tree and was able to go back 12 generations in one branch.
Around 1650 CE I had ancestors in 10 different countries, speaking 10 different languages, on 2 different continents and 4 different Polynesian islands, just living day to day.
And your country is
And you (and I and every non-sub-Saharan African) have neanderthal ancestry (~2000 generations) :)
If you have Polynesian ancestry, it means that you have also ancestry of Homo denisova.
@Hawkwoman H oh yea thats amazing but neither of my parents are the keepers of our genealogy
@@robertab929 Africa is very diverse many Africans do have neanderthal dna cuz of middle eastern dna
Shem=Simetic, of which was a mythological bible character, so no one has simetic genes, nor hametic genes.
So as a person living in Turkey, I should be in theory connected to Asian, Middle Eastern and European royal families. It would be really fun to trace that line if we had any records at all. People did not even have surnames 100 years ago and it is almost impossible to trace any family back more than 3 generations other than Ottoman nobility. But I really enjoyed the video anyway :)
Should’ve called the theory “Charlemagnia”
No
For MaximillianMus YES HE SAYS
No obviously.
I've actually found this to be true. It's so bizarre. I even found out that a few of my friends are actually decent cousins of mines, the more and more I work on my own family tree.
Im sorry but your typo is hilarious
How fun! I’d love to find out that some of my friends are actually distant relatives of mine. It would make sense!
I have decent cousins too. But a lot of them are goofballs though.
The people on North Sentinel Island: Are we a joke to you?
_european_
*descendant of royalty*
Which is why he said barring people from extremely isolated tribes
@@sayantansaha1976 Ramses isn't likely related to anyone outside Egypt. The Egyptian monarchy was strictly endogamous
@@philo3838 All it takes is 1 bastard. Maybe a pharaoh had an affaire with his maid and she delivered her baby in secret or without knowing whos kid it was. the DNA will remember.
7:34 About the Six Degrees of Separation thing, one afternoon when I was messing around on the Oracle of Bacon site, I began to notice that most people were either two or three degrees away from Kevin Bacon. I think the same trend might apply to the more general application, as well.
That’s likely true. I’m Canadian of European descent, but can easily trace a 4-step connection to the emperor of Japan! It happens a friend of mine while travelling in Japan met the son of a cabinet minister in the govt of that time (1980s) and ended up staying with the family for several months. So he met that cabinet minister who surely had either met the emperor or at least met someone else who had. So from me to the emperor perhaps 3 or no more than 4 degrees of separation. (It takes me 6 steps to connect to Prince Charles, though.)
Yeah, you just have to find someone very well connected. A friend of mine once met the Queen. How many people has she met?
Thanks to the Mormons I was able to trace my ancestry to Robert the Bruce from nearly every branch of my family tree.
Through the same methods I have ancestors going back at least to the 5th century AD, but the country is Armenia. A newer genealogical website allows me to trace ancestors back to pre-Islamic Iran.
@@paulbrower4265 which is what because i wanna find my old ancestors
Familysearch shows the same for my family too and most European royalty.
Me too!
Paul Brower Whats the name of the website?
While I am proud of my heritage, and I love learning about my family history, I don’t let the actions or beliefs of my ancestors define me. I think it should be the same for most.
As a Brit, this is essentially my mindset (for obvious reasons).
I grew up thinking that I was of Irish extraction, and being a history bug, read all of it with a rather anti-Brit perspective. Then I had the time, while on leave, to actually research my ancestry; I am75% Brit, 50% from Wiltshire, 25% from the Isle of Man with a little Norman tossed in, 1/8th Scot, 1/8 Irish, with a dash of Amerindian, Jewish and probably every other ethnicity imaginable. I am a mostly Anglo mutt, and I felt so ashamed for so long.
This sounds like what the son or grandson of a controversial king would say not somebody many generations away
You know what. Even I don’t think you should be ashamed of your ancestors. Whether they were cruel kings or slave traders or murderers. Cause I’m the end of day. If you two were to meet, they would HATE YOU. Everyone’s ancestors would hate our generation for being openly accepting. They would hate how we commingled. How we speak English and not our true lingua like Gaelic, Welsh, Celtic. Think about it.
I am Nepali, if I met my x6 generation grandfather. He would punch my face for mingling with English society. For forgetting my native language. He would also hate me for having black and white friends. The same goes for every American and British person. Your ancestors would hate you as well. I find it bizarre that confederate enthusiasts think their x6 generation grandfather would think of them as friends. They wouldn’t. They lived in a far darker time of human history and this they would be far darker than anyone of us can imagine.
"most people would be hard pressed to name one or two of their second cousins, let alone a third cousin" you must not know any Latinos lmao
Or southerners. I grew up with so many third cousins, I even knew some fourth and fifth ones. pretty sure my entire little town was related one way or another. I married a guy who grew up 500 miles away, lol, dating classmates wasn't too appealing. 😁
@@ka4500 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So original. I guarantee if you checked your family tree, you wouldn't have to go back too far to find some cousin marriage. When you live your entire life in a 20 mile radius, you don't meet a lot of potential dates. So, people married neighbors and cousins. We're all a little inbred. Welcome to the club.
@@2HRTS1LOVE I agree. My dad's parents were from the same tiny isolated peasant town on top of a mountain in Italy. When they were born, the population was at its peak of 1300 residents (now it is
speedy boi no Latinos don’t like fucking cousins. We just tend to have around 7 other siblings.
Yesid Antonio
or asians
This is something I've been wondering about for some time. Especially the exponential increase of the number of ancestors. My maternal grandparents were big into genealogy after they retired, and made family trees for their own family, my father's family, and a lot of their friends' families. As a young boy really into knights and medieval history they would make me feel special by telling me I was a descendant of Richard the Lionheart, among others. I'm Dutch, and for the last 600 years they found mostly Dutch ancestors, but between 200 and 400 years ago also a Belgian line, an Italian line, and a Scottish line. So that corresponds to what is said in this video. Thank you for the clarification!
So i am a relative of Prophet Muhammed, Charlemagne and Emperor Tang ... cool
Berke Akbaba Also the Seljuks and therefore Ottomans. WE WUZ
@Gopi Gajwelly They're a blatant religious lie. (Adam and Eve)
Gopi Gajwelly how are u related to Jesus? He didn’t have kids
Ok I don't think they were being super serious but come on - how is them being religious so irritating? Also, it would be wrong to say you are 'descended' I believe, but if there was a historical Jesus you could still be related to them by their parents.
@@imverycreative5819 i think jesus is related to @gopi gajwelly by his father side
Thank you, this was such an interesting video, very well done. Years ago I read a book called 'The Seven Daughters of Eve' by Bryan Sykes where he talked about everyone on earth tracing back to only seven women via their mitrochondrial DNA, and those seven women tracing back to only one woman, 'the Mitrochondrial Eve'.
I learned the same thing from a lovely cool facts infographic book called Do Not Open. Mitochondrial DNA is so awesome.
As a matter of fact: Adam and Eva had two male children says the Holy Bible. Then, one day Cain (after having killed his brother Abel) "knew his wife" and generated T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,.....WHICH wife did he make pregnant ? The only female thus present on earth was his own mother Eva. So Cain is the founder of Jewmanity by incest.
@@ezzovonachalm7038 dude do you read the bible? They had 3 sons that were mentioned by name, Abel, Cain and Seth, but they many more
Genesis 3:20
After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
When they banished Cain, he took one of his sisters.
@@ezzovonachalm7038 bro wtf this isn't even biblically accurate
I found one of these convergences in my family tree. I was tracking one line and it went back to Anne of Glouchester from one of her marriages. Then I was tracing another line and there she was again from another marriage. I thought at the time, my tree is shrinking. My wife joked about me "descending from royalty," but I said at the time "everyone descends from royalty if you go back far enough." Thanks for the explanation.
It's interesting to see that the 80/20 rule also applies in this.
As a Swede with two Swedish parents, I have found a direct connection to Charlmagne, and pretty much any royalty during that time period (and earlier). If you manage to find a noble ancestor the work becomes a lot easier as their genealogy is very well documented.
All the crowned heads of Europe are related and there are thousands of children cuz
I have the name of a Swedish noble house...no clue how they ended up somewhere in southwest of Germany 😂
@Orui some Swedish bois chilling in Germany during the Thirty Years War perhaps.
I found my family lineage to Charlemagne last week, this video couldn't be more on point!
_Jeff_ Howdy cousin 😉
Me too
No, it is interesting. But, it definitely could be more on point.
Well that sucks for you. You though you had something special, now you're a common man.
@@josecipriano3048 I have a lot of Kings as great grandfathers and Queens and great grandmothers.
Then everyone's related to Charlemagne's mom and dad, and everyone before them...
Yeup, charlamagne didnt just get dropped off by a stork 😂 this video should be called "how every person on the planet is related"
We are all related to BACTERIA
@@jakegrant7663 the trees are our cousins
ComradeAlice okay Vegan
This is so useful, I came back to listen to it once again not being aware I watched it 7 months ago.
A few thoughts crossed my mind while watching this: Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip are third cousins through Queen Victoria and also second cousins once removed through Christian IV of Denmark. Next: Britain operates a system of diminishing titles - that means the titles don't carry on through all offspring. For example, a British Royal princess cannot pass her title on in any circumstance unless (basically) she is the monarch. The younger sons of monarchs are princes, their sons are also princes but in turn their sons are not princes, the princely line dies out. This system keeps the monarchy and the peerage extremely limited in numbers and future generations merge back into the general population so there are very many British commoners related to monarchy and aristocracy of old.
I can't begin to tell you how many times I got the "Ah Ha" look after describing genealogy as diamond shaped not a pyramid. Your connections to royalty, Charlemagne whomever is quite unremarkable, finding all of the links that get you there is however, quite remarkable.
It reminds me of how geneticists say every single person alive today with blue eyes is related to the first mutated person who lived near the Black Sea 10,000 years ago.
Everyone is related to everyone. The reason we have “strangers” is they are too far back
This is why when royals look for matches they go back 3 to 4 generations to see if the person marrying into the family has recent noble blood
2:51 Habsburgs be like am I a joke to u
Ptolemies be like: Hold my beer
How dare UsefulCharts disrespect The Chin
The Hapsburgs were the Alabama of European monarchies, and Ptolemies are the Alabama of monarchies in general.
@@d3athmak3r3true
“People in Spain and Italy are even less likely to be connected to everyone else” haha jokes on you, on both my mom and dads sides of the family I have a great great Irish grandparent 😎
The meditearean population are connected with other meditearean by sea !
Being a genealogist, I talk allot about what I call the "spreading effect". Over time, your ancestry goes back to every place, every social group in that place, and every family in those groups. In the end, you are related to everybody. And it only takes a few thousand years.
Filip Wessman
Oh dear god does that mean I'm related to Donald Trump , yikes 😱
@@lyndadale6255 Trump is your Daddy
D81
Excellent ,
I look forward to inheriting
some of his ill gotten dosh. 😎
@@lyndadale6255 Yes it does.
Filip Wessman
So you are too cousin.😍
I am a Canadian and love genealogy. My parents were both half French Canadian and half from the British Isles. French Canadian genealogy has been well documented by the Catholic church over the last 400-ish years and there are known ‘gateway’ ancestors who lead back to royalty. I have at least one gateway ancestor so I do have my tree back to Charlemagne.
I'm a Quebecer and my dna says 100% France (very boring) and doing my genealogy I keep coming back to the same 5 or so couples...pretty funny (1 very common one is Abraham Martin (Plaines d'abraham). Do you remember the gateway names or know where I can find them?
Who did you contact to get all the information, was it the Vatican or did you search the online archives of the town your ancestors came from?
So you're my double relative.
I was so excited I discovered I was related to William Wallace. But now I'm not too thrilled because so are thousands of other people
Thousands? Billions...
@@sylver369 LMFAO BILLIONS? CHILL DUDE. WALLACE AIN'T NO GENGHIS KHAN
@@icarocintra378 We are literally ALL related. All of us. So yes, billions, despite YOUR ignorance and disbelief.
@@sylver369 Okay 1234th cousin. I get it, you're a smart boy.
So I descent from Charlemagne, Shaka Zulu, The Emperor of Tang and the "king" of the first native american to come to the continent?
How quaint.
"Interaction" is a very polite way of describing the ways that France and Germany have related to each other over the years :P
So you'd say that "intercourse" would be a more accurate description?
And "fvcking each other up" would be even more accurate?
Actually the biggest ennemy of France was England
« La perfide Albion » you know
@Tjalve
Both definitions word the word work
Welcome to Europe, the continent of Charlamagne's descendants.
Does Charlemagne have any links to any of the Germanic tribes in the Hun Confederacy?
@@SinicizedTurkProbably.
I traced my ancestors on my mother's side back to Charlemagne. I got back to 1725 fairly easily. When I got back to about 1000, it became very easy.
Talked to a woman who was a descendant of those who came over on the Mayflower. She estimated there are 1 million alive.
The most complicated topic explained in the best way. I'll stick to this theory of origins even though it doesn't really tell the origins
"france and germany"
All Benelux people are triggered
EDIT: GODDAMMIT HE DOES IT TWICE
Only the Netherlands is a real country among those three. Flemish is a dialect of Dutch; other Belgians are NE French. Luxembourg is about financial manipulation.
Am not any of the 3. Simply that it cannot be declared that the Netherlands isn't / wasn't a real country, which is true of the other 2. No matter, all of western Europe is finished anyway; the glory days are long gone. Crop losses & failures abound.
@earaza Then you don't know the Netherlands.
@earaza Go back to /pol/ pls
@earaza Belgium is a non-country invented as an office space for beaurocrats. I pity anyone who has the misfortune of being forced to call themselves Belgian.
*Chinghis Khaan laughs while drinking his airag*
Right 🤣😂
@@Cardan011 Islam will soon pass Christianity suck it. PROUD MUSLIM my family became muslim 800 years ago
If just found that I’m a descent of the royal family of Spain! Thanks for your videos they are an inspiration!
When it comes to Gengis Khan, he had over 1,000 children, all current mongololese people are 100% related to him.
I think you meant either Mongolian or Mongoloid my man
Mongolian