Queen Elizabeth is my 15th cousin, so I'm also related to Sherry Rieger :-) Thomas Jefferson my 20th cousin once removed and so on and so forth.
It seems that because of my mother's maternal grandmother I'm always related to somebody famous, but mostly by going hundreds of years back and making a u-turn through some cousins. Some Danish kings are my 20th and 21st great gandparents, but I still have no castle of my own :-)
Matilda of England
his mother
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Matilda of Scotland
her mother
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Saint Margaret of Scotland
her mother
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Edward 'the Exile' Ætheling of England
her father
Edward 'the Exile' Ætheling of England is your 27th great grandfather.
Edmund II 'Ironside' King of England is your 28th great grandfather
Father
Æthelred "the Unready", King of the English is your 29th great grandfather.
Edgar I "The Peaceful", King of the English is your 30th great grandfather.
Edmund I "The Magnificent", King of the English is your 31st great grandfather.
Edward I "The Elder", King of the Anglo-Saxons is your 32nd great grandfather.
Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is your 33rd great grandfather.
Aethelwulf, King of Wessex is your 34th great grandfather.
Egbert, King of Wessex is your 35th great grandfather
Ealhmund, Under King Of Kent is your 36th great grandfather.
Eaba is your 37th great grandfather
Eoppa is your 38th great grandfather
Cenred, Co-Ruler of Wessex is your 40th great grandfather.
Ceolweald, Under-King of Wessex is your 41st great grandfather
Cutha Cathwulf is your 42nd great grandfather.
Cuthwine is your 43rd great grandfather.
Ceawlin, King of Wessex is your 44th great grandfather
Cynric, King of Wessex is your 45th great grandfather
Creoda, King of the West Saxons is your 46th great grandfather.
Cerdic, King of the West Saxons is your 47th great grandfather.
Elesa is your 48th great grandfather
Esla of Saxony is your 49th great grandfather.
Gewis of Saxony is your 50th great grandfather.
Wigg is your 51st great grandfather
Freawine of Saxony, King of Saxony is your 52nd great grandfather.
Frithogar of Saxony Birth: circa 299 Saxony, Northern Germany is your 53rd great grandfather
Brand King of West Saxons is your 54th great grandfather.
Baeldaeg of Asgard is your 55th great grandfather
Óðinn / Woden / Woutan of Asgard is your 56th great grandfather
Frithuwald Bor is your 57th great grandfather.
Frealaf Buri Birth: 160 Asgard, Asia or East Europe is your 58th great grandfather
Freawine is your 59th great grandfather
Frithuwulf is your 60th great grandfather
i am also related to some kings , swedish danish , norwegian, but have no castle, me either. but many of my ancestors did, johan III, gustaf vasa and birger jarl were all descendants of charlemagne.
johan III was the son of gustaf vasa. and all descendants of birger jarl and charlemagne. they buildt many castles in sweden, the old tre crones castle and gripsholm and others, they remodeled.
Although it may seem special to be related to royalty , it really is quite a common occurence.
From Wikipedia :
Royal descent is now recognized as common among residents of the United States, as in other countries. With improved documenting schemes, it can be estimated that as many as 150 million Americans have traceable royal European descent. According to American genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts, an expert on royal descent, most Americans with significant New England Yankee, Mid-Atlantic Quaker, or Southern planter ancestry are descended from medieval kings, especially those of England, Scotland, and France. Some Americans may have royal descents through German immigrants who had an illegitimate descent from German royalty.
Due to primogeniture, many colonists of high social status were younger children of English aristocratic families who came to America looking for land because, given their birth order, they could not inherit. Many of these immigrants maintained high standing where they settled. They could often claim royal descent through a female line or illegitimate descent. Many Americans descend from these 17th-century British colonists who had royal descent. These colonists with royal descent settled in every state, but a large majority lived in Massachusetts or Virginia. Several families, who settled in those states, over the two hundred years or more since the colonial land grants, interwinded their branches to the point that almost everyone was somehow related to everyone else. One writer observed, "like a tangle of fish hooks".
Rhonda sounds like my mother's side of the family. So many lines arrived very early and were connected with royal lines.
The French Canadian end, thanks to your help I was able to get back to org families there and where they came from in France but then hit a brick wall again.
I would add all this info to my tree if I ever decide to join as a Pro. I have asked several times to no avail, if I could use a gift card or prepaid card from Visa or Master Card to make payment but no one has given me an answer.
Some of us were in exile for religious persecution and did keep track, in New Jersey, for example, 40 Noble families divided into 2 sets of 20 and planned out the marriages to present day in case no new Noble familes showed up, but more did in Upper Canada and 1 set married back into families like the St Clairs, Hamiltons, Campbells, Kennedy's, Meade's, Cosh's, Kerr's, Kirkpatrick, Fisher, Boyd's, etc, etc, Many with titles, my 2nd cousin 4 times removed in his lifetime married three ladies from England with Lord's as fathers, He was married three times. In 1817 he married Elizabeth, daughter of James Macaulay. In England in 1834, he married Elizabeth Emily, daughter of the British Deputy Secretary at War, William Merry (1762-1855) of Lansdowne Terrace, Cheltenham, by his wife Anne, daughter of Kender Mason of Beel House, Buckinghamshire, the sister of Henry Mason, who married a niece of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Two years later, again in England, he married Caroline, daughter of William George Daniel-Tyssen (1773-1838) of Foley House etc., High Sheriff of Kent, by his wife Amelia, only daughter and heiress of Captain John Amhurst R.N., of East Farleigh Court, Kent. I have 100% Royal blood cursing through my viens and the paperwork of everyone to back it up. Most of us escaped with our heads still attached.
yes, many moved to canada and america , because of religious persecution, as you say above, if you had seen the swedish movie utvandrarna , about swedes emigrating to america, they move because of religion and because it is poor in sweden. that they had prayer meetings in the homes, but the priests did not like that.