The Ancestors
Noun: A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
(Please note my family history is work in progress and may not appear here yet, but do not let that stop you, if you are interested just drop me an email.)
Noun: A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended.
(Please note my family history is work in progress and may not appear here yet, but do not let that stop you, if you are interested just drop me an email.)
Surnames
Hiding behind the buttons above are all my ancestors, most of my family can be traced to around the middle of the 16th century, however through my 3x great grandmothers family, I am able to take exciting steps into England's landed gentry, on though its nobles and finally its royal family, whose ancestry, is of course, well documented. After that it is easy to trace my ancestry back to the Norman Conquests to the generation of my 28th great grandparents.
Through one family line I can trace my ancestors back to the six century. Why not click on any of the links and see where you end up.
Through one family line I can trace my ancestors back to the six century. Why not click on any of the links and see where you end up.
These families range from my 2 x great grandparents right up to my 23 x great grandparents. My nine 'foundation' families lived all their lives in five of our English counties.
3 were from Cornwall
3 were from Yorkshire
1 was from Leicestershire
2 were from London
3 were from Yorkshire
1 was from Leicestershire
2 were from London
From these four counties I branch out into Devon and Somerset, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire and Hampshire.
A very interesting question that is often asked is how many direct ancestors (grandparents, great grandparents and so on) do all of us have.
Many people can trace their ancestry quite easily back to the 1700's which in my case are my 7th great grandparents. It is my Cornish 3x great grandmother's family who enable me to take these exciting steps, first into England's landed gentry, then through its nobles and finally it royal family whose ancestry is well documented, after which it is easy to trace my ancestry back to the Norman Conquests to the generation of my 28th great grandparents.
It is over nine hundred years since the Normans invaded our shores, we can say, more or less, that there would have been fifty generations of people who would have lived and died to get us to the present day. This is worked out on an average of twenty years between each generation, that's an awful lot of people in 1000 years.
So with a quick click of the calculator we can say that every person has 64 7x great grandparents and 134,217,728 28 x great grandparents. Of course this figure only applies if no one married a relative!
If we all stop at the 34th great grandparent, and no one's ancestor married one of their own, the number of direct ancestors would be 8,589,934,592 persons, which is more than the entire current population of the world!
A very interesting question that is often asked is how many direct ancestors (grandparents, great grandparents and so on) do all of us have.
Many people can trace their ancestry quite easily back to the 1700's which in my case are my 7th great grandparents. It is my Cornish 3x great grandmother's family who enable me to take these exciting steps, first into England's landed gentry, then through its nobles and finally it royal family whose ancestry is well documented, after which it is easy to trace my ancestry back to the Norman Conquests to the generation of my 28th great grandparents.
It is over nine hundred years since the Normans invaded our shores, we can say, more or less, that there would have been fifty generations of people who would have lived and died to get us to the present day. This is worked out on an average of twenty years between each generation, that's an awful lot of people in 1000 years.
So with a quick click of the calculator we can say that every person has 64 7x great grandparents and 134,217,728 28 x great grandparents. Of course this figure only applies if no one married a relative!
If we all stop at the 34th great grandparent, and no one's ancestor married one of their own, the number of direct ancestors would be 8,589,934,592 persons, which is more than the entire current population of the world!
