The Largest Handwritten Family Tree in the World
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of thousands of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated group of priests, better known as pandits, working quietly behind the scenes. In small offices that line the river, they keep handwritten records of everyone who has visited the holy site. These documents function as historical and genealogical archives that even record births and deaths in each visiting family. With archives dating back 20 generations, it is the largest handwritten family tree in the world.
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As someone who does papermaking, serious respect for them being able to preserve so much paper in such a hot, humid environment.
@@9451085447 That's not even right. Don't correct people when you have no idea what you're talking about.
JadeToniRitsa L as a Indian your kind of confused India’s climate is really diverse it’s usually not even hot until the summer to be honest
Lol haridwar is in Himalaya, it's spines chilling cold ❄.
@@user-vf3cb7vk8z It's you who should shut up.
@@sandeepchetia6200 They're right.. The weather isn't extremely hot and humid in Haridwar but it cannot be said as cool either. Even in october temperature goes well above 25℃, let alone summer days.
Why am i not surprised that the
biggest handwritten family tree would be in
*India*
i actually suprised. i thought china or japan would be the winner but now that i think about it this make sense considering how india still have sect tradition in them.
Lol true
Be happy that it's not written by your rival, Hitler.
cuz we're awesome *dramatic hair flip*
China does have large family trees as well. This is more like a collection of family trees instead of just being the family tree originated from 1 ancestor. The family tree of the famous philosopher Confucius in China dated back to 500 BC and includes names of 2 million descendants and over 70+ generations.
I would love to have a family tree documented that well.
Why are you obsessed with these guys’d?
Have you tried to do yours ? Depending on the country you live in and where your ancestors came from it can be "easy" !
The dirtiest river in the world the Ganges... They put poop and piss in there they even put dead bodies that are rotting in that river. Disgusting
There are websites that can help a lot! Like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org
Same because my family tree looks like a fat cat
These priests come every twelve years in our house to get updated and also tells us who were are forefathers and what did they do. It is really amazing to hear when they come. And plus the one who came told me about 10 of generations of my family and thier jobs and where they lived. It was amazing to know that we were originally from Afghanistan from where we ran away to gujarat and maharashtra to escape the violence of new rulers. It happened 1000s of years ago.. Even when there was no writing, these important historical events were remembered and passed from father to sons of these priests.
But sadly due to urban life people have losing interest about who were their forefathers. Also these priests have started doing other jobs as there is not enough money in it. I hope it get digitalised soon, not only in Haridwar but whole of India have these people.
Shoham Das wtf?
@@shohamdas means?
Kryptonizm means he’s mad
What is your surname/last name. It would be interesting to know.
Which state are you from??
Being Jamaican seeing this brought tears to my eyes. As the descendant of former slaves, I can only dream of having this kind of information. Sure, I can do one of those ancestry tests and get a questionably accurate idea of where my ancestors came from. However, the lost ability to attach names to my genealogy (past my great grandparents) is irreplaceable.
Same I'm from martinique and my maternal great grandfather was adopted in St Lucia so I have no idea
well at least you have some information about your family in the last century.. think about those who come from countries where there are no records at all
@@pierresursock6000 You missed my point. Even in the least developed nations, people are aware of the last couple generations of their family through oral histories. What I would love to have is a detailed written family tree as extensive as what was shown is this video. It's not about comparing struggles, just expressing a desire to know more about my lineage.
rosemariewildflower1 I understand. Aren't there ways to trace your family history by knowing what tribe your african ancestors were from? Also, those indian records aren't as detailed as they say in the video, they rarely have the exact dates... European records are much better
It's similar for Indians who are untouchables. Untouchables would have obviously not been allowed to do this course. Untouchables of India were not seen equal to human beings. They were not allowed to drink water from common ponds even. Because they were not human to the upper castes around them. It's similar here in india. The suppression of native indians by the Aryans. Not many people know of that
Hey mom, i wanna marry the girl i met there somewhere.
Mom: Look at book 472, page 4629 she is the grand daughter of your great great great great great great great great grandfather
haha
Pretty much that's how it is. We follow a 'Gotra' meaning family tree. People with matching Gotra can't marry as it will be incest.
Well , we can marry girls seven generations apart from father's side and 5 generations from mothers side.
The girl actually doesn't exist anymore even if you want to marry.
@@aniruddhsingh4169 not if she has same gotra as yours
Subtitles are wrong... I think they meant 2000 years old, not 200 years old
according to Anurag Kuradia (also in the comments here):
1:23 he did not said 200 years old instead he said since the use of the "bhoj patra". And "bhoj patra" means birch leaf, which is used before the invention of paper.
So according to my forefathers , this record is 900 + years old.
I have visited this place 2 times with my whole family ( with people in our family tree with whom i have never met) .. on the dead of my grandfather and grandmother for religious procedure and to update the record. And believe me they can find the record of any family within minutes which contain 7- 10 or more generations data and some records are dated back to 1100AD.
www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/India,_Hindu_Pilgrimage_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)
Wow
DHAN PUBG aryans migrated to India in 2000 BC, over 4000 years ago. These records go back around 1000 yeaes
Yup it's 2000
DHAN PUBG aryans are myths you idiot and yes Indians were living living in India at that time tf?
Teacher :" Draw your family trees"
*I have a family Forest"
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Back in 2007 one of these Brahmin Priest visited my Parents home, Fortunately i was in India back then. I never knew about this thing and it was astonishing event, My Father gave them Clothes Money and showed his respect to doing this great job. They bought only one book containing past 200 years only (they had 25 of them for our family in their work place) I traced Traces upto my Great Great Grandfathers and family branches, Next time i will go to India i will give them a visit them and try to Draft a family tree for atleast 100 past generations it will be a mammoth task but i will do that. Also i will support them, indeed they are doing great job by documenting all these things, A real service to community.
@Sultan Abdulhameed II hey id would like to know something about your ancestry... Your mom and dad, they were cousins right?
@Sultan Abdulhameed II Are you so low iq? What it has to do with your Islam? what was the relation ? Yes i know the Rate of Reproduction for Muslims in India is too too high and they will become majority thanks for reminding us and last I AM AN AMERICAN (Indian Origin)
Sultan Abdulhameed II
Da faq is wrong with u
@@kuldeeps90 They won't wait for the population bill their work of marrying 3-4 wives and producing 10-12 kids will be over
Our ancestors were really ahead of their times. It's a proud moment standing by the civilizational achievement
I am a statistics student and I can call tell you that this man can do a better job than I ever can.
I am a Core Control system Programmer who takes care of his massive codes and algorithms, so i can assure you they are at Boss level, Once i was in India and met them, i felt insignificant
@I Need The Memes can I enroll?
Yeah dude just give teach them computer and they'll start a million dollar company by selling your family tree info. How cool that sounds
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It'd be cool if they digitalized this information and made it public access and searchable. Anyone could search for their family name and uncover centuries worth of family history. Like 23 and Me, but way more intimate and humanized.
The younger generation of Pandas,as they are called, are digitallizing but the work is so enormous that all the information just can't be processed.On a rainy morning I remember I performed the last rites of my mother and recorded in my own hand the details for my offsprings duely signing with date and time.Every family has its own priest and the whole thing is so articulate and organized that it blows your mind.
@@CAP753 Are these records available for all castes or for the 'upper castes' only?
I agree digitizing it would help in some ways, but I think there's something very special in making the pilgrimage to there then making the records
There's actually a site for that.
www.familysearch.org
I've been using it as I work on my family tree. Very helpful and lots of new features like adding memories such as pictures, documents and stories.
@@kierarque5535 - I've browsed that website; it's useful for collecting everything in one place. But you still need _access_ to those documents in the first place. What I meant is that these specific written records should be searchable.
My family is from Haiti and I thought it was impossible for me to discover my family history. Turns out, a Haitian geneology organization had meticulously digitized the birth/death records of thousands of family names, even those like my family, who weren't part of some well-known economic/political/military elite. I accessed it for a small fee. It's super helpful when filling out your family tree.
Hindu authorities should fund to digitise the records, and keep it at safe place.
The records should be updated on paper and computer both.
And those records should be handled safely, it's very precious
They cant even fund cleaning up the RIVER of the billion gallons a day of raw sewage and chemicals going into it a day!
@@HobbyOrganist lol that thing stopped way back now the cleaning is going on
We will become anti muslim after that according to some muslim
TBH...People are lazy
They've begun digitization as of recent apparently, i only came across a news article, but it's probably ONE Pandit who's begun doing that, it's gonna be a long way but at least it's gonna happen
200 years? I've been there and they had over 30 generations recorded in their books!
even on the leafs............. and these records are older than islam
@The Sun how did it get destroyed exactly?
@@learnology6742 😂😂 this was funny man
They meant 2,000 years.
900+
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This story made my day!! Oh Indians you guys are so cool!
The Whole world is a freaking family we all are in on way or another a Hindu-Buddhist at the core. Visit Kumbh and get your legacy written for the coming generations too.
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We have our family tree for 10 generations, till the time Christians missionaries drove us out of Goa during Inquisition
How the hell are you verified when you have 36 subs
@@illusoryme that moment when he has 32 subs now
YT Staff maybe ?
My Mom said the same, my ancestors had to move due to goan inqisition and families have scattered everywhere. Konkani we speak matches mostly with Goan style.
Ganesh Nayak Us too, our ancestors fled Goa to escape atrocities by the Portuguese. I have been trying hard to trace back our lineage which ends abruptly. What’s worse is none of our current generation is educated about large scale persecution done by the Portuguese and quietly swept under the carpet.
I want to digitize this so bad. don’t want it to be lost.
All it takes is one fire...huh?
@@god5535 well not really tho...
Since family's come here take their family tree back home.
And I'm sure they have thought about the fire situation and have a different solution or something.
They keep on renewing the eroded ones
They do give the digitized form of family tree these days. My friend got one and was shocked to know that 20 generations ago a man migrated from Russia started his family.
@@Professor91811 oh... That's really shocking...
Did he get to know frm which place in Russia that man was..??
On my father’s side we have a family tree that is 1400 years old, the first name is that of a Roman praefectus in the region of actual Tuscany.
The oldest paper is from the XIVth century.
The first born keeps the records, the siblings are given copies.
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Yooo that’s sick! I wish my family knew smthng about our ancestors, the farthest I could dig back was my dad’s grandma
@@j.4553 you can also find your ancestors. You just need to tell them your last Hindu grandfather name his village and gotra.
If you are a Jat as your surname is Bajwa then you çan contact Bajwa of India they will find.
So you’re telling us you’re the descendant of a Roman military commander in Tuscany ? Impressive what are you family social class now ?
simply mind-blowing
Records are over 900 years. Maintained since before paper.
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Yes before paper it was on bhoj patra which means birch leaf. This bit was missed out in the translation and feels bad for the foreigner who would wonder about this too.
I think my forefathers converted to islam 500 years ago . I desperately want to know about my forfathers in that book.
If u go n search there with proper address etc u may find
yeah, those records have preserved even lineage of converts.
Even those ,who now reside in Pakistan & are Muslims for generations have their records preserved there
@Lingo vi no
All caste have their records keeper
Every born child is islam, even Adam is islam the first man in the world. People keep doing something weird and believe it. You should proud of Islam
@@vibhashukla2796 Read your own book before judge. You still don't understand Wedha. When Wedha tells do not worshiping things, why are you still worshiping?
A charity should fund them so that they can get the proper equipment to preserve the datings!
Thy are well equipped with traditional ways of preserving things for more than 800-1200yrs. I've visited my self to see my family records
kho They have money for maintaining them
@Ch Vo Yes, found abt my great great grandfather and after them who visited. Saw my 766 years family tree
I mean... Thats nice thought and all but they have been preserving them for over 200 years using basic equipment. Seems just fine!
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After my grandpa expired my father went to them. They have around 5 centuries data of our gens preserved. We were earlier living in pakistan sialkot then migrated to himachal now delhi
@@aman.aman.aman.3 ig no.. There are still jaswals in pakistan.. either suffering converted or dead. U search jaswal... some pakistani musician comes up. So no... not all community migerated.
We are chandravanshi rajputs... many had lots of wealth, some though situations will get better so there's no point of leaving, some burried gold under their houses hoping to return 1 day(my family is one of those)... well that never happened. Some workers of our family and relatives of my maternal nd paternal side stayed there...and unfortunately we never heard from them after partition
Only 30k jaswals are there in india. Found in delhi himachal and bit in punjab.
@@sanyajaswal9129 Ask the few Brahmins in pakistan they will hv ur record
So cool!
Wow
@@pranjal8912 are vaha un jihadiyo ne sab kuch khatam kr diya
I'm from South-west India (South Maharashtra) Here our family records kept by *HELAVI community from Karnataka* ..! They have my family records from 600AD onwards! These people every year visits our houses with their bull & recite all our history in poetic form! They have distrubuted villages among themselves!
It's so interesting that we don't have to go to them to register but they themselves come to Maharashtra from Karnataka to record next generations information!!😅 We gift them clothes, money, sometimes small jewellery, food etc!! Such good tradition of our Hindu culture!😊 Thanks to them I know who was my forefathers in 600 AD & what was their profession, their name, etc!!
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When we lost our grandmother, our family went to haridwar for the rituals and there we came to know about our ancestors as back as 1600 AD, their origin, where they migrated from, dates of whenever they visited ganga, etc.
Now visit the place they migrated from the panditji there will hv older records or pay the panditji an advance in Haridwar he will get u a copy instead through his contacts.
I recently visited that place and discovered an ancestor of mine who had visited the area back in the 18th century to repent for his sins.
Plus i discovered my ancestors came from present day Myanmar and Bangladesh and fled religious persecution to settle in India
That means you r probably a Naga or a Khasi , am i right?.
@@user-ml1mr1ls2y khasi arya is from central asia.
Man change your translator
He she is cancelling out some of the most important words
And he didn’t say it was started near 200 year he said bhoj patra , which means birch leaf.
Birch leaf was used before invention of paper
So this is really really older than that atleast a 1000 yr old system
It's not leaf though. It's made of bark of the HImalayan birch tree. But what you said about the translation is true.
900+ years
Imagine how cramped your hands would get after writing it tho
they would be dead lmao
Ive been there once about 5 years ago. I went there because my grandma had passed away, we had to put her ashes in the ganges river. I remember sitting in a room where a pandit had a huge roll of paper, like in the video, where he wrote down details about her death and a lot more stuff. It seemed very interesting back then too.
Just flipping too a clear page would hurt
Imagine getting one mistake
HAHAHA “oh fUdge a typo”
This is Beautiful. Indian Govt should immediately digitize these precious scriptures.
Keep those jokers away one look at ASI managed monuments and u know what calibre these Indian govts possess. Our heritage should be protected by communities here hindu not by the state.
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Imagine having to make a family tree for school and it's this one
My family has written history of more then last 2500 years. Literally even before king Vikram.
This is nothing new . There are thousands of family having this.
Amazing 2500 years. You are so lucky. Do you mind me asking, where are you from? I am just wondering if they would also have records about south Indians. In the olden days, it would have been a Herculean task for my ancestors to visit Haridwar at all so, I doubt they would have any records of my family.
@@supriyam6896 I am from Gujarat. We do have thousands of families which have their hundreds of years history written.
That's what kuldevi or kuldevta is for. That's where your family priest register your ancestry everytime someone dies or someone marries or someone born.
There is no need to visit haridwar. This is done at your kuldevi or devta temple by your family priest.
This was usually done to keep track of gene pool so nobody accidently marries someone related to last 7 generations.
It's a tradition which people forgot. Even my family actually lost all the books but one day when we were renovating our old ancestral house we found it inside the wall, an entire chambe full of last 2000 years history and names. Rest we already had.
@@pranavpatel3576 That is so amazing that you accidentally found the records. I have to ask my parents and grandparents if any priest is keeping our records. Thank you for the reply :)
@@supriyam6896 yup. But doesn't help much if others didn't keep their records. The main purpose was to keep track of every family's gene pool so tracking can be done while arranging marriage.
@@pranavpatel3576 True. It is so sad that this beautiful tradition is lost in many places.
I saw the thumbnail and said to myself - This has to be India!!
It's traditions like these that us Americans just don't have and can't fathom. We have trouble tracing back any traditions a few decades old never mind something that's hundreds of years old. What's sad is doesn't even seem like we try to even start one for our future generations our civilization changes so fast now that just a few decades go by and we can't even recognize or remember what the past was like.
I hardly know very little about my lineage. I can tell you practically anything about my parents lives, but my extended family is a mystery to me. I know their nationalities and their occupations, but nothing about their lives. Hardly knew my grandparents. Never met my great grandparents. It bothers me that I'll never know them as they were when they were alive, and that's something I've come to live with. We've detached ourselves from one side of the family because they're literally insane. The other side is halfway across the world. It saddens me to not know more. I one day plan to do a massive research project to find as much information on both sides of my family as possible. Some documents will be easy to find, others not so much. It may be difficult, but I'm up for the challenge. I envy this list of family knowledge that the Indians possess, because I'll never have a reference like that. I'm sure as hell going to try to make one though.
@@astrodreamer946 same for me and many others. I don't know many people who even know their great grand parents names. Then there's other families that know the names of family members going back hundreds of years. I think if we took interest in our ancestors it would create a stronger sense of family and help us connect better with strangers as well because the farther you go back more interconnected we become.
The problem with starting a family tree is that it requires intense documentation while also being able to identify and record family members easily. This is a problem since many Americans are descended from immigrants (such as Italians and Irish who came over during the industrial revolution) who either did not have the time,money or experience to document their lineage or couldn't keep in touch with family back from where they came from. This problem is even worse for African Americans since most slave ships kept only the barest of details on where slaves where taken in from. America is also such an incredibly young country compared to areas such as India and europe. In the video, the people who come to visit the river Ganges are probably preceded by who knows how many generations coming to the exact same spot before them.
Same. As a Japanese American the farthest I can trace my lineage is when my great great grandfather came to America. Anything beyond that is a mystery and from what I heard trying to obtain any family lineage information in Japan is really difficult if you're not a Japanese citizen. And I can only imagine how horrendous and difficult it can be for other people to try track down their lineage
@@bats9218 well that's pretty sad. Maybe they should
My dads side of the family has a family bible that’s been around since the 1750s. It has birth records and names in it and we consider that to be the beginning of our family history.
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Ah!!! India such a wholesome video made my day ! I have visited india 2 times and the people are very helpful but this river is so yucky at banaras but at haridwar its very pure and icy. Butterchicken is 😋
My family record is nearly 3000 year old....After this I think after so many natural calamity, British rule ,Mugal rule who tried to destroy Hindu religion how they manage to do that....
Really ?
I m curious could you send me the oldest name of your ancestor
This system is thousands years old not just 200 yrs.. I know my last 12 generation Grand-grand father..... Grandfathers names..
Even Lord Ram's earlier 63 ancestors and after then to today's 339th heir is also present in India and all over the world means this family tree lineage system is at least 10 thousands yrs old..
Saurav Sharma Doesn’t that also mean that Ramayana is real?
@@viaaniswki3903 yes it means RAMAYANA is not Epic it's real
@@viaaniswki3903 obviously its real and these islamists tried hard diminishing it but to no avail
@PRAKHAR DUBEY do they maintain ancestry of low caste hindu? Bcz i m low caste and i want to know.
@@kamartaj3010 yes brother, if your ancestor might have visited that place, then you will get to know. By the way, I don't believe in caste.
This is equal to my holiday homework
You are qualified to work here
The video should have been a minute or two longer so that viewer can better be explained what exactly the records are for. The ending was quite abrupt.
So amazed how dedicated are they in preserving history...I hope that the records are stored in the best way possible
They are that's why these records still exist well and un-damaged in Haridwar till date.
@@shivamgautam949 isliye hm Indians ko apni identity pata h identity crisis se nhi pareshan h hm
These sort family trees are common in Nepal too. We don't have pandas here, but they are documented. We update the genealogy with pandas while visiting India though. Most of us have 'vamsawali' - the book of vansa(family tree) . I am the 127th lineage from Rishi Atri as per my vamsawali. My 75th ancestor came to Nepal from Kannauj, and my 79th ancestor was the Royal priest of a small kingdom, because of which they gave us land as birta (gift) in a place called 'khatyadi'. So, we became Khatiwada from Upadhayaya. It's really awesome to know these things.
Now i can proudly say I know my lineage . Well I know the last 8 - 9 generations but last time I went to haridwar i was stunned by how much I even don’t know about my family. I always thought i m North Indian but in fact my ancestors came bengal .
After watching this I asked my grandparents about this and I was shocked to know that the data of our family tree is also written there... Last time my grandparents went there to write the name of mother of my grandfather after her death... I was 11 yrs old when I went there. I am very curious to go there again...😊
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This is India! Incredible and beautiful and warm India! Proud of being an INDIAN!!
Not as long as this but we got one of ours that goes back to king sejong, a korean emperor who invented korean language. Only problem is no one in our family can read it because it's in old old chinese
There are thousands of script and written system which can't read by anyone now because they are older than 3000 years
I've been there and discovered that I have ancestors who came down from Tibet and converted to Hinduism on my mother's side. They entered India/Nepal around 300 years ago and made sure to pay a visit there.
@@aman.aman.aman.3 tibodo. I mean bodo tribe
I am Swedish but I would be furious if anything happend to the over 900+ of detailed ancestral records.
I viewed my records when I was 16 years old. They inputted my father, his brother and us boys that went along. Along with other information. I wish I had a camera, because we saw the writing from my hundreds of years right in front of my eyes.
I'm going to go next time and stay there. This time since I can read and understand Sanskrit and Hindi, I'll be better equipped at interpreting it.
@Tom Ss Ask any Panditji he will ask u about ur district, Ancestral village then another panditji who is in possession of Bahi-khatta of ur village will come and give u details amd if u want more older records give them an advance they will arrange that too I'm talking about 5th-6th century. And always remember pay them well some may be upfront and ask for it others don't and they don't lead such good lives so pay them well always.
These must be protected!!! They’re precious historical treasure.
Its accurate, my family has family tree records in haridwar,gangotri/badrinath/pehowa..
Once I visited to Haridwar as a kid, and my dad met to the guy who keeps Papermaking for our family, he gave me the information from my dad to my 10 past generations. It was incredible the village I was born in, was established by one of our descendent back in year 1410. Its always great to know your roots.
I went to Haridwar and saw these maintained records, my great great great grandfather whose name I never heard went there so was everyone before him and after him. These are really treasures if you want to know about your lineage. Also only one pundit take record of your entire family no other pundit will create your record if you ask any shop about your pundit they will take you to him.
No, they actually distribute it & maintain copies of it but the main pothi is always with the main pandit
Do they have records of lower caste or as well?
@@kamartaj3010 do you think I am from upper class?
@@kamartaj3010 honestly I don't know if you asked this question to show that there is a caste division in Holy rites or this is a genuine question. I didn't ask the pandit about it but according to me different pandits make record of different castes. You should ask this to your elder male family members cuz they must have gone there to do the 'ful' ceremony.
@@crushforkatrina no caste is unrelated they use "gotra"
Wrong subtitles they showed 200 years in subtitles, but (bhojpatra) birch leaves used by ancient sages of Hinduism before invention of Paper. Even my family members traced ancestors list till 600 year back.
Our ancestors were really ahead of their times. It's a proud moment standing by the civilizational achievement
I know the names of my previous 6 generation..All thanks & Respect to all bhramins and their Bahi 🕉
We found our records till 300 AD ( even the priest was shocked ) more shockingly one of my ancestors were the king of a small territory in Punjab 800 yrs back for about 100 yrs. I took a DNA test and I found that I was 20 percent Greek ! Our family is purely based in India and that was quite shocking
And u people call urself the children of IVC😂. Most uppercaste dont belong to this land they just migrate in and have no contribute in building IVC
@@kamartaj3010 ever heard of invasion of Greeks??
In 180 BC, the Indo-Greeks, invaded parts of northwest and northern India and ruled in the Punjab region
And multiple more times his ancestors lived on the horder territory that's why he has Greek ancestry
@@kamartaj3010 Dude shut up. You clearly don't know history.
@@kamartaj3010 ever heard of Alexander ( sikander)?
Fascinating
So who are they recording?
Every time a family member dies some family members go there with all of his/her/there info and then they record it. So... Technically dead people
@Tejas Misra you both are right but normally it happens when some family member die. My father told me we registered my grandpa name there when he passed away.
Every family, I was able to find mine. such a great moment to read the details of past 100s generation yet i was exhausted reading past 10. lol
Haridwar is a very holi place in Hinduism. Everytime someone's family member dies the family of the person who died visits Haridwar.
@Tsetsi There are recording the family tree. My name is there, my grandfather name is there and then his grandfather and then his grandfather for nearly 500-600 years maybe..... Each of my forefather's name is registered there.
wonder how they are organized?
Raj Singh there’s a history channel video for it on youtube
@@zarathustra4649 Can you share the link, please?
@Pavan Kumar exactly
@@zarathustra4649 link please.
@@anoop1629ua-cam.com/video/Fp8tAirrrKc/v-deo.html here you go!
I think I have an idea where the word 'pundit' comes from. Interesting.
BatAskal yes you are correct.
English is such a poor language, just 12,000 ORIGINAL words, it stole so many words from many languages where they spread their evil empire, and claimed these words as originating in their own lexicon (even Polish has 15,000 original words, Hindi from India has 30,000 - 40,000 original words)
@Lingo vi modern English is more or less made up of 'loan' words from every culture around the globe.
@Lingo vi x
"Sect of priests called pandits" Lol. Pandit is just preist in hindi!
Not really. Pandit basically mean a person who has mastered something.
@Rambo do you even know the difference between a pandit, purohit, poojari, brahman, bhikshuk, yogi and perhaps your favourite ' babaji' ?
I love Geneology. I’ve only got my family tree to the 1700’s... this is so fascinating 😍
This is simply amazing and beautiful. every effort needs to be made to preserve these records. As a descendant of indentured immigrants who left India for the Caribbean, I can't trace my family back more than 3 generations, no idea where we came from and the stories of our ancestors. Blessed are the people who have records over hundreds of years.
I’m from a small town in rural America, and you could trace one side of my family on the width of a piece of paper🤣
@MATHA NOSHTO-MAN sweet home alabama
@@bea5365 good.
We had a family tree book which starts from family members of 1840 but now it is not maintained because most New members moved to different cities in last 20-30 years.
This tradition was widely followed by many families in village but now it's hard to maintain.
I’m not even surprised that it’s in India
The 200 year sounds like a mistake, those records have to be a thousand years or more.
I am working on my own family tree and I am already down to 1701. Still need to hit the archives of 2 small towns and the national records for the military to look at some non digitized documents and if I can prove a possible link I can jump another 100 years(with 2 more missing links I will be at
Subtitles: "Enlightening Music"
Deaf people:"ohm, is that nirvana I see?"
As similar to this there is also a group named"Jagaa" mainly they maintaines the record of the "Maheshwari" families from more than 1000 years ago ... After every 10years they update their data of all families with the profession and business records by roaming all the cities in the India and abroad where the Maheshwaris are fragmented...
People on the top of the tree are probably thinking: "No need to thank me"
My father was astonished when he saw the record of his grandparents
My family has one of these too. Saw it when we went to Haridwar for my Grandmother's "Antim Sanskaar". Got to learn about my ancestors, what they did and also saw the names of my cousins. Wrote my name and purpose of visit too. Was very very cool.
Though i was disappointed that now the original pandits have sold these to other pandits who use it to milk money.
Also these are way older than 200 years. I saw one recording from 1500s in my family's manuscript.
//milk money//
Do they charge for this? I heard that it was free & do they charge a lot of money?
@@aman.aman.aman.3 no bro it is cheap actually. And just think it's too hard to preserve them and give time in maintaining and searching them
my family tree is also among it.
my clan is Bhardwaj.
Yup my also
@@shivabhardwaj4886 oh then genetically we share same ancestor. technically
you're my brother.
@@asura2600 hmm may be
0:41 what is that guy doing getting the water out of his hair?😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He is taking a dip in river which is considered holy by hindus
he is not getting water out of his head, thats a way of taking blessings from river ganga (seen as a holy/mother figure)
the description says "hundreds of millions each year" while the video says "hundreds of thousands" might wanna change that/clarify
Can you imagine the effort it would take to digitize this and convert it into a format that can be referenced? But it must be done, its the only way to preserve these family records.
Respect to this tradition of preserving something like this
Christianity by Colonialism.
Islam by force.
But Hinduism by Choice.
Hinduism by propoganda
@@abhishekshaju91 And dalit by reservation
@@thepriestofvaranasi what??
@@thepriestofvaranasi I see you are a khattar hindu we need to talk as I am a christian.
@@thepriestofvaranasi seen your past comments
This is cool. I really have no idea about my ancestors before my great-grandma. Even her is a fade memory.
This is cool. I hope they setup a way to preserve the older papers. I'm sure sitting on a shelf isn't good for them.
Respect for Hinduism.
My dad: that's the books I used to read
Your whole life is less to know everything about *The India*
*❣My India is Great❣*
I first heard of this in the show, Who do you think you are. He visited the place as a child and he has brought his kids to have their name recorded like his ancestors before him. It was a great episode.
DIGITIZE!! For the love of God digitize it & put it on the internet!
I’ve been doing my family tree and I wish I could go back that far! Sadly the IRA destroyed a lot of our records (and peoples’ lives) so I’ll probably never get further than the 1840s
I remember getting mine written in when my grandparents died. I saw the names of 5 generations before me (they had older ones also). I felt really bad after seeing the condition of their house.
I am American and I kind of wish I knew this much about my ancestors. I am 25% Finnish and our Finnish ancestry is well documented for about the last 400 years. And because of that I and my family feel like we have an unbreakable bond with our heritage, even though none of us have ever been there and we can no longer speak the language. I also have some ancestry in Alsace which is less well documented but still documented and I also felt a connection when spending time there and I realized things were very different from when my ancestors left.
However, I have German and Irish also and my family more or less completely erased those identities. I don't feel connected to Germany in the same way even after living there 5 years. I've learned about American history so I understand why my ancestors would want to erase their identities but it's a tragedy as well.
Let’s hope no one mistakenly throws a lit cigarette butt out in or around this building lol
O bhai mr. Panauti , aisa naa hi bol bhai
@Sultan Abdulhameed II What that has to do with this. Like Parkinson why it is stigmatized. Talk this shit in Pakistan
@Sultan Abdulhameed II bhai maine jo bola uska iss baat se kya taaluk? Bimaari hai , kisi ko bhi ho sakti hai, thoda apne dimaag ka ilaaj karwaao pehle
Now that it is known by many, it may happen
The very thought of it scares me!😱
*"Warning: Don't go in the comment section's replies"*
😅
Should have warned earlier..I am already scarred
Meri toh gaand hi phat gayiii
@Sultan Abdulhameed II you are brainwashed buddy , do you know that ?
@Sultan Abdulhameed II you know you are Hinduphobic
I have read your many replies...
@Sultan Abdulhameed II stop hinduphobia
I really eager to learn about india's culture because indian characters in fgo are so damn cool, and the lore just great. I never know Mahabharata would be soo epic.
Such a cool looking language
Justin S. Sanskrit.
No one speaks Sanskrit anymore, it's a dead language like Latin. It's written in Devanagari script, which is used to write Hindi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Marathi and Prakrit. It is probably written in Hindi.
@@professionallabelmaker744 Like Latin though there are still some who speak and write it, for tradition sake I assume
@@professionallabelmaker744
If you think no one speaks sanskrit now, then you are Hella ignorant!
Most of the Indians don't know Sanskrit ( according to me ). I never saw people using it for communicating. So yes, we can call it dead language.
Definition of dead language : a language which is no longer in everyday spoken use, such as Latin.
I’ve been there a lot of times but 3 years back I actually found my ancestor’s names, hometown etc. It felt surreal and made me talk all philosophical on the way back lol. It was epic....especially when we got our names written and the fact that our next generations would come here although they’ll already know our names because of our social media activity
My family had a tree that dated back to 983AD, unfortunately it was stolen in 1989 along with a few other family belongings ! Priceless to us but probably not worth much in the black market.
😭 🤧🥺 so sad
1:20 it's not 200 years ,it's nearly 1000 years
Lol my family is literally just my mom and grandparents. Id kill for even a page of people.
TheJewelTheory Unfortunately dna testing didn't exist it's just a toilet paper roll they don't list secret lovers births. Now Picture a man who can't get anyone pregnant he would use his own brother/stranger to impregnate his multiple wives or his concubines. then he registers those children under this toilet paper prehistoric system. these children in turn don't know & marry their own half siblings later on or they may marry their uncle who is a real father to them. Or a woman can fake a birth & steal her maids offspring. this should be called a census of countries not a family registry. Now if a baby is left abandoned somebody can claim their wife gave birth then that baby is under this registry later bathing next to his own real brother & wouldn't know it.
or a switch at the maternity ward happens. then those same people use this registry not realising a switch occurred.
this system check is outdated every should get tested to see belongs to wich family group.
@@rozenstarzfallz ummm what?
@@rozenstarzfallz ...bro what? Chill
@@rozenstarzfallz dude wth
i was able to trace my past 10 generations and i was exhausted reading these scripts (not easy to read) and they told me you just able to drink a drop of ocean.
To think they could keep the records in good condition and so perfectly arranged and organized before even electricity is crazy.
a family tree so big you'll swear all the papers used to write it on could make an actual tree
Well,it's not paper, it's bhoj patra or birch leaf they're writing o
Yes. Beacuse you produce cricket team
People who slaughter animals for fun are talking about trees😂😂😂😂
Id love to have my family tree that big, i could sit and look at it for hours every day, learning about who your ancestors are and what they did is so interesting.