Questions tagged [genealogy]
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Who is the most ancient person with the biggest lines of descendants that have been fully attestted?
I was wanting to find the biggest and deepest family tree, but once it's been made, the answer changes constantly over time, so I'm resorting to this.
I'm looking for the person / people who was born ...
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What language, culture, traditions etc, gives their son only the father family names and their daughters the mother family names?
I'm sorry, if this is not the right place to ask this question. I'm currently doing research in genealogy, and I have encountered a pattern: if you go back enough generations, the luso-hispanic way of ...
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Who is 'Chlodebaudo/Chlodebaud' in the Merovingian-era Clovis I genealogy & Charlemagne ancestry, supposedly mentioned in a Salic Law manuscript?
In Henry H. Howorth's The Ethnology of Germany.-Part VI. The Varini, Varangians, and Franks.-Section II (1884), p.228 he writes:
We must remember also that in a genealogical table attached to an old ...
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Was there really a navy officer named Picard at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Was there a high ranked French navy officer who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21st 1805, and had a last name Picard?
In the film Star Trek Generations, the fictional character Jean-Luc ...
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Is the House of Odon considered historical or mythological?
I have just been on wikipedia looking through King Charles III's ancestry from father to father and it brought me to Elimar I, Count of Oldenburg whom had a wife that claimed he was descended from ...
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When were Yazdegerd III and Peroz III born?
Yazdegerd the Third was the last ruling Sasanian King of Kings of Iran, overthrown by the Muslim invaders. Peroz III was his son who never succeeded in regaining the throne.
I used to read that ...
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In light of genetic genealogy, are there any new theories for the introduction of Goidelic to Britain and Ireland
There is DNA evidence of two major waves of Indo-European migration to Britain and Ireland.
The first wave of migration occurred in the early Bronze Age.
The second wave of migration occurred in the ...
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What is the methodogy used to determine the exact genetic flow from one area to another and the times in which it flowed? [closed]
For example, I take the instance of Central Asian migration into India.
Say geneticists studied a) ancient bones in CA b) ancient bones in India c) living people in Central Asia d) living people in ...
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Who was the last/is the current count of Orsay?
Alfred d'Orsay (1801-1852), comte d'Orsay, had no children so I believed that the title passed to his sister Ida d'Orsay (who is mentioned to be countess of Orsay on various websites) and then to her ...
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Was any other religion as exact in terms of genealogy as Judaism? [closed]
Old Testament has extensive genealogies dating from Adam (untraceable) to Jesus, (somewhat traceable). My question is, was any other religion (Greek Paganism, Sumerian Religion, Babylonian Religion, ...
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Is Carolyn Seymour (the actress) related to Alexander von Benckendorff (the Russian statesman)?
Browsing Wikipedia (I know) the other day, I came across the page for the British actress Carolyn Seymour. The page in question states that she was born Carolyn von Benckendorf (note that this is only ...
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What present-day monarchs descend from Rodrigo de Borgia, a.k.a., Pope Alexander VI?
I understand all enthroned and dethroned Catholic royal families (except for the Grimaldis) and even some Protestant German royal families like Hessen, Mecklenburg and the Prussian Hohenzollern ...
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What is the oldest European royal house?
What is the oldest European royal or princely house, either enthroned or dethroned, that patrilineally survives nowadays?
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Was there significant interbreeding between Romans and Native Britons?
During the days of Roman occupation in Britain (43AD to 450AD), did the Roman occupants of Britain interbreed and intermarry with the native British population substantially (is not only a couple of ...
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What is the line of descent from from emperor Louis III to Henry VII?
In this Wikipedia page about the Holy Roman Emperors, it is stated that emperor Henry VII (1275-1313) is a far descendant of emperor Louis III (880-928).
What is the list of people that make the ...
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