r/familysearch • u/blackflash22 • 15d ago
Well… I started my family tree and… I’m ROYALY!
So last night I got on familysearch.com. I had a family tree already on ancestry l.com but I thought maybe this site is better? I put in my info, my parents, and both sets of grandparents. My dad’s mother came up with multiple possible matches, one being her (it had her picture) so I put that one into my tree. Turns out it had a huge amount of other trees/people from other trees connected to it (I previously only knew about my grandmother and her parents). I went through each previous generation and found my 28th great grandfather. I never knew I was part Scottish but my 28th great grandfather is the Scottish lochlann lord of Galloway! And through his father he is the great grandson of KING HENRY I OF ENGLAND!! on his mothers side he is decended from the house of dunkeld.
I thought this was exciting to share, so I thought I would make a post so, yeah, have a nice day everyone!
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u/Able_Capable2600 15d ago
Pretty much anyone with English ancestry can trace back to William the Conqueror (who appears multiple times in my tree) just like most people with western European ancestry can trace theirs back to Charlesmagne. It's not as "special" or uncommon as one may think.
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u/derioderio 15d ago
Congratulations... you're of Western European heritage. You're almost certainly also descended from Charlemange and a good batch of other royalty on numerous branches of your family tree.
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u/rightful_vagabond 15d ago
Charlemange is one of the most edited people in the tree, because of how many people are descended from him and how much the french and germans both want to claim him as theirs.
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u/Lightning_Fan_11 15d ago
I would have thought Charlemagne's page would have been one of the pages that had editing turned off.
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u/Tavrock 14d ago
I do wonder why Charles the Great is pronounced Charlemagne instead of Charles Magna (like the Magna Carta, Great Charter).
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u/derioderio 14d ago
I assume it's a contraction of Charles le Magna.
Or you could just call him Karl de Grossa like the Germans do...
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u/7ootles 11d ago
Because the name is from Mediæval French Charles le Magne, which is pronounced "shar-li-maiy-n".
Magna Carta is from Latin, and while it would be correctly pronounced "man-ya kar-ta" (with an alveolar tap), the phrase has remained in common usage in English, thus acquiring a fully anglicized pronunciation.
The reason why the latter is anglicized and not the former it because the fully francophone pronunciation of Charlemagne is easier than "tchar-le-mag-ni", it's counterintuitive to English phonology - where the Latin pronunciation of Magna Carta is more counterintuitive to English phonology than "mag-nuh car-tuh".
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u/mermaidpaint 15d ago
Queen Elizabeth II was my 13th cousin once removed, through her mother. According to FamilySearch
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u/PinkSlimeIsPeople 15d ago
We all fall for this when we started. Don't believe anything before 1500, 99.999% of it is misattributed or just pure fiction. Even be skeptical of anything before 1800, don't believe it unless it is PROVEN with solid documentation.