My Family Tree

[handellgr]

What genealogy program are you using? Very nice.

[Hamiemu]

@handellgr Family Tree Maker

[SonOfDeutschland]

I am so jealous of all your Italian ancestors!

[pelletier71]

Yep... Most everyone from European ancestry should be connected at some point or place to nobility. I may have descended from Charlemagne as well, if I am to believe the sparse records I found linking my tree to the Millennium file. The amazing thing would be to conclusively trace the lineage.

[SonOfDeutschland]

@pelletier71 I have traced my descent from Charlemagne. It's amazing how many people you find out you are related to. I found out I'm related to one of my friends at school who is also descended from Charlemagne.

[Jimm9349]

No big deal, did you know everyone in the world is related to Confucius? After 900 years someone will have millions of descendants..

[Hamiemu]

@Jimm9349 Of course - but people fail to realise the human descendency until some visualisation is brought onto their eyes - as you can see from some of the comments left here :)

[MWCR]

And not a single note or reference to any source so we can see this is true.

I'll believe it when I find it!

[Hamiemu]

@MWCR if you beleive one can find all this on a single reference, and not on over a couple hundred references that can be displayed here in under 10 minutes... you're badly mistaken... anyway.. I don't need you to believe it buddy - I hardly believe it myself! Historians shape the past... and historians are humans. 

[blaixx992]

holy shi-

[TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, could someone help me please. I was trying my ancestory and I found a site that talked about my grandma's home town of Georgia; (Sumter County; Americus to be exact) unfortunately, the place where the records were kept caught fire and all the records were destroyed. (Unless you have bad credit that news really sucks lol.) I was wondering if there was another avenue I could take to find out information on my grandma's family.

[marowak1337]

wow, that's awesome.. how does one go around researching these things? where do i start?

I'm from Czech Republic (possibly half german family) ololol

[robertjoyce95]

awesome. but, where did u find all this?

[Pokemon978IsBackOn]

I'm related to Megan Fox, we're cousins! Cool, huh?

[Celler2]

I bet you wish you weren't related huh? lol....

[AustinWorthington]

I greatly enjoyed this video, especially because I see that you, like I, am related to Lady Godiva. Or, at least, so historical facts would suggest; it's most likely, but I suppose there's always a bit of question along the way. I do wonder if you ever encountered the Scrope family?

[Hamiemu]

Glad you liked it. No mortal man can be 100% of his origins I'm afraid. I'm afraid I've never come across the Scropes.

[AustinWorthington]

Well, that's a pity. As is my understanding, Leofric, husband of Godiva, was the great-grandfather of a woman called Nest, who married into the Scrope family in the early 1000s. Through her I've been able to trace myself back to Kings of Wales all the way down to the early 300s.

[Hamiemu]

My path is through their son Aelfgar of Mercia, through his daughter Edit Swan-Neck, and her daughter Gytha of Wessex's marriage to Vladimir Monomakh

[AustinWorthington]

@Hamiemu We're also both Charlegmane descendants, though I imagine nearly everyone with European ancestry would be.

[Hamiemu]

If you work your binary tree upwards, the number of 40th generation ancestors amounts to 1099511627776... while in Europe there were only a few hundred thousands at the time!

[scarlet83]

Where is the music?

[climbyourtree]

Hi, and thanks for posting this. Interesting video! How did you manage to create those cool diagrams of your tree? It would be interesting to have a representation of mine that is similar but I'm not sure the best way to fit it visually/conceptually on a single piece of paper (even if it's a large piece) :)

[Hamiemu]

Thanks - feedback appreciated. I used Family Tree Maker 2006. Then export to PDF as one page, opened in Acrobat, view full page. Plannnig to print on canvas.. would be 2.35m x2.35m

[shadowtriber666]

You're DNA can pretty much tell us about ur ancestors and we can pretty much tell how they died and what they did. and i wan to know who my ansestor are.

[7677876]

How can DNA tell you if one of your ancestors was killed in battle, with a guillotine, or just by age? DNA just shows how your body will grow and a rough example of your body in the future. Trust me. I have a 7th grade education XD

[Aeroww]

lol

[familyoriginstree]

I am a genealogist. It simply cannot be done the same for the descendants of black slaves. Most descendants of slaves can't go back beyond 1870. Genealogists, such as myself, can go back to the mid to early 1700's. That's usually where it ends on the black side. We can use DNA to get an "idea". But it's no where as detailed as some white families can accomplish. This is a fact of black genealogy.

[familyoriginstree]

Too bad black families can't do such deep roots tracing. I'm envious and angry to be honest. It is, what is though.

[CesarV413]

actually you can by a geneaologist, and someother organizations around the US as of the african american lives

[GuruKidz2k8]

I am planning on researching my family tree also. i rented out a book from my local library about finding nout more of you natural and biological history. The book was named "GuruKidz2k8- Back To The Past". I recommend with great joy. I bid thee farewell. Bon Apetit! p.s Check out my cool profile. It has spiritual videos which explain alot about thw world!

[kneedownbrown]

I'm planning to research my family tree over the summer and currently know very little about how to do it. Can you recommend a software package that helps you to organise all your photos and information?

[Hamiemu]

There's Legacy, PAF (Personal Ancestry File), and FamilyTreeMaker to name a few.

[hankosuru]

Hi!! I´m Carolina from Brazil and my grandpa last name is Vassallo. His father was italian but I don´t know how he got here in Brazil. I wish you could help me find my ancestors.

Hope to hear from you.

[Kreglnos]

how did u do this?

Kregl

[hnlmkk]

Cool presentation. I like it. Thanks for sharing.

[Cassarndra1962]

Having researched my family tree for 30 years now...i do wonder if you have verified ALL of your information to guarantee 100% authenticity. It is so easy to now find suspected trees and erroneous information by hearsay thanks to the internet.. if you have congrats! I know how awesome it is to find that elusive ancestor.

[Hamiemu]

Well aware of that... I have endeavoured to cross-reference trees and make sure they quote sources such as textbooks... but then again, no-one ever can be 100% sure because historians are human beings after all, most often under the employ of the masters whose histories they write...

[percupowerkarl]

indunajt li nafa ximkien il muzika ... thx gbin

[percupowerkarl]

what music is this ? nice vid

[Hamiemu]

Music is copyright of Harry Gregson-Williams, extracts from the soundtrack of Chronicles of Narnia

[alphamone]

I have to say that you must come from a rich background to be able to trace your family back that far.

[Hamiemu]

I have traced back to a sicilian noble whose ancestors were nobility themselves, from all over Europe. Thus the enormity of the tree. As soon as you strike a noble ancestor you're bound to link to this tree.

[jeromeyward]

I understand completely! The nobility genealogy of Europe is woven and crossing, and can be very confusing. I have found several links in with several branches of my tree. My wife and I are 16th cousins! Once the genealogy bug bites, that's it. I'm going to try to make a vid like yours. I've been at it for about 15 years and have 65,000 people in my database.

[Hamiemu]

Thanks for your comment jeromey! My mother's the 18th cousin of my father's great grandma! And I still have to find how I am related to my wife (who is her own 3rd and 4th cousin!) Good luck with the vid!

[alphamone]

WOW. now that is a big tree. im sure if people did enough research they would find a match with their own tree, seeing as your tree is so huge.

[cyberlucy]

Great job! Love the way the family tree grows

[Hamiemu]

Check the blog link on my site for a narration of how I carried out my research.

[rYbKaPL1]

How do you do that?? Can you give me some tips how to trace roots back so far? I'm 14 now,I started my family tree when i was 12, and the oldest ancestor i currently have is my 4th g grandfather. How can you get so far??

[clerk22]

Fabulous! So well done! Great music! I have forwarded a link to this to so many people, who really enjoyed it. I would love to see some statistics of how many ancestors you have found and how many geneerations you have traced back at each state! Good luck.

[Hamiemu]

Very happy it's to your liking! right now i have topped the 4000 mark and those charts depict 43 generations (up to my 40th ggrandpa c750-800AD)... further back i consider them mythological... linking even to the bible such that Adam&Eve would be the 150th ggrandparents :)

[PegHart]

Really alot of work, I am working on mine also....But...you are the bomb!

[tube4tommy]

Interesting video..

[Hamiemu]

thanks.. been working on it for 6 years now (on and off of course)