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Part 3 of Meredith Cain Inglesby's ancestry includes the furthest back bloodlines through England, Wales, Europe. and Tunisia. It also includes stories about some of Meredith's ancestors and the index to all 3 books. Enjoy the journey as you travel into the distant past and end in Tunisia in about 1850 BC. Cover photo is of the Antonine Baths in Tunisia, from approximately 2000 BC.

Part 2 of Meredith Cain Inglesby Ancestry includes the remainder of the 70 generations; It extends through the royal houses of Britain and Europe and includes the Carolingian, Merovingian, and Roman Imperial bloodlines. It extends all the way to Deatha Mac Ertha, born about 1850 BC from Tunis, in Tunisia. Dunure Castle in Dunure, Scotland is shown on the front cover, and is the home of the Kennedy Clan. Please see Part 1 and Part 3 for additional information.

This volume contains the extended pedigree of Steven D Blanchard, however because books are limited to 800 pages, it is printed in 2 volumes with the index at the end of the 2nd volume. This pedigree is 134 generations and takes the reader back through Europe, Great Britain, and the Levant countries all the way to Adam. Along the way you'll find Kings, Queens, Lords and famous people you've heard of only in history books. Information before 1300 is difficult to document but is included as it was taken from already published genealogies done over the centuries by credible sources, and the Bible. There are always mistakes along the way so researchers are encourage to check the sources and to use these pedigrees as a guide in their own research. They are accurate as the author could make them at the time of publication. Front Cover: Artists conception of Methusaleh.

Many of the subjects ancestors were colonists on the eastern coast of the Americas in the early 1600s. Three of them were ship's captain who piloted the Mayflower, the Godspeed and the Susan Constance, the ships which brought the colonists to Salem, Plymouth and Jamestown. Many of these same families married into the Native American tribes of the east coast. As these families moved west to Wisconsin, they married into other Native American tribes creating a mosaic of American ancestry. Before coming to the colonies, these families represented some of the most prestigious (and sometimes combative) clans of Scotland; including the MacLeods and Campbells. Descended from Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annadale, the family married into the Sinclairs and Wemyss families, as well as many others. Wayne's genealogy travels throughout England, Wales, and Europe into Jerusalem and can be documented back to 352 BC. Enjoy the journey as you learn about some of the adventurous men and women who formed this unique family. The front cover is an artists conception of the colonial ships arriving at Jamestown where the Native Americans were already resident.

Some of the simplest families have great roots. The family of Alva Mathews and Sharon Pugh, while raised in Arkansas, USA have puritan roots in colonial times on the Eastern seaboard of the Americas. Before that they can be traced back to Wales, Scotland, England and beyond. Descended from Kings and Queens of Wales and England their heritage extends far past the 30 generations that are represented here. Some of their more famous ancestors are Sir Henry Morgan, Pirate of the Caribbean and Sir Richard Hawkins, Queen's privateer/pirate and cousin of Sir Francis Drake. Enjoy carousing the pedigree of this family as you go back over a 1000 years of history. The entire file is available to the public on Ancestry.com under Pugh-Mathews Family tree.

The Seyfert family has been embedded in Saxony, Germany for centuries. Leading back to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne. For the most part, ancestral lines can be traced back to the 1500s, the extent of the parish registers while at least 2 lines can be traced back to 1100 through Charlemagne, King Charles II of England, and King Louis of France. Representing the stalwart families who built Europe, it spans most of Saxony, Germany, the city of Berlin, and Slovakia.Front cover photo: Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor

When the Dutch and German settlers left Europe for South Africa, they had no idea what to expect. Like their fellow Calvinists and cousins who went to Plymouth Colony in the Americas, these people left Leiden, Netherlands for the Cape Colony in South Africa. Here they faced hardship and conflict as they settled amongst the African tribes of southern Africa, the British and Sweden as they fought for control of the colony. Businesses, farms, and wineries were built and families intermarried with other ethnic groups and freed slaves. Many of those freed slaves became property owners in their own right and the Cape Colony grew exponentially. Some of the free slaves actually lived at the Castle of Good Hope, the oldest building on the Cape and many of the ships that brought them cave into Table Bay. Many of Rosa's ancestor were original Progenitors, meaning they were the first of that name to come to South Africa.Front cover: Castle of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope

Like many religious refugees of the early 19th century, Allan Larsson's ancestors came from places like Gotland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Holland, France and Portugal to the Cape of South Africa in search of a new life. It was here that they established churches, businesses, and farms. They intermarried with other European families and started new lives. Life was difficult in this lush area and the colony changed hands several times from Dutch, to British, to independent. Wars were fought and new land was conquered, although sometimes at an overwhelming price. Through it all, these families weathered it all and adapted to their new way of life. Many of these families were Calvinists or Quakers, descendants of some of the finest families in Europe. These included such families as Tancred, King of Sicily, Agricola and Marie Everts, a freed-slave landowner from Guinea.Front photo - Jan van Riebeeck arrives at the Cape Colony of South Africa in 1632 with the first Dutch Settlers.

Born in 1776, Hamilton Brown came from Tullyloob, County Down, Ireland to Jamaica in order to earn his fortune. He came with his uncle, Alexander Hawthorne who became an attorney and found the young Hamilton a job as an estate bookkeeper for a new friend in Jamaica. Within a few years, Hamilton Brown had made a name for himself; buying and selling slaves and property. He would mortgage the property and before long owned more than 6 properties, each with a slave population. He lived in Saint Ann parish on the eastern side of Jamaica and represented the parish for 22 years in the House of Assembly of Jamaica. He founded Hamilton Town, which was later renamed Browns Town. He was a sugar planter and cattle breeder. He brought over 300 people from Balleymoney, County Antrim, Ireland to Saint Anne in a brig that he owned, but most were little more than white slaves unless they had specific skills. He was often criticized for his treatment of his slaves and workers. When he died in 1843 it is guessed that he had more than 30 children himself by different slave women, a common thing for slave owners in Jamaica. Although he never married, he left part of his property to his son Hamilton Brown Jr, a mulatto whose mother was Kate Williams, a Negro Ebo slave who was brought to Jamaica before 1832 when slavery was abolished in Great Britain. The picture on the front cover is of Turtle River Falls in Saint Ann Parish,

When asked to research the ancestry of a mixed-race woman, I thought it would probably be a short search as records for African Americans tend to disappear before the Civil War. I was totally wrong. At least two lines of MeShawn's ancestry were Free-Blacks who lived above the Mason-Dixon line. They owned businesses, some were ministers, and were an important part of their communities. Another line, ending up in Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina was Native American from the Oconeechie/Saponi tribe and well documented in the land and probate records, marrying into African-American lines. Two lines were 'mulatto' (mixed white and black) and traced back to white slave owners who'd had children with their female slaves. Their lines were traced back to the time of the Crusades in Great Britain and Europe to the Kings and Queens of England and France and beyond. Among her ancestors were Crusaders, Knights Templars and even King Philip the Fair of France who had outlawed the Templars. Her mother's lines traced back to Anna of Arimathea and the Kings of Wales.Family history is an amazing gift for any person, letting them know of the people who came before; their struggles, their courage, and the lives they led. We should always remember that "they were, so we could become."

The journey of French Canadians is often a difficult one. Born of two cultures; Native American and French, families intermarried and brought together their cultures, ways of living and legends. Eventually some of them made their way to Louisiana when the Acadians were forced to leave Nova Scotia or when families moved to Maine and New England for more opportunities. Although the Native lines can only be traced to Membertou, Chief of the MicMac who was the first to join the Christian church as an example to his people, the French side can be traced back to Persia in 800 BC. Only 30 generations are represented here but there are many more to be found at Ancestry.com in the complete family file. Enjoy the journey as you follow the MicMac, Anishinabbe (Ojibwe) and French families as they moved through Canada and New England. The image on the front cover is traditional Anishinaabee beadwork, of which Richer (Goose) Gosselin is descended from.

When first asked to complete this genealogy, Louis knew very little about his father's side of the family. He had focused on the Italian side, which was an important part of his life. Now he knows, without a doubt, that his fathers side is incredibly diverse, as his mothers is Italian. Several of Louis' lines reach back to the Merovingian bloodlines, and if time would allow, could undoubtedly reach back to Biblical times and the bloodline of Christ. His father's side descends from Kings, Princes, Crusaders, and Knights Templars. If Italian records were available, his family there (mostly from Campania) would also reach back to medieval times when Crusaders and Knight plied the roadways between England and Jerusalem. Enjoy the journey as you explore his family! To view additional photos, documents and papers relating to his family, please visit his family tree at Ancestry.com; the Emory Family Tree by Genclass222. Photo cover is a photo of Campania, Italy

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Richere had no clue how far back her Native American ancestry was. As she learned more about her grandparents and heard the stories about her 'gambler Indian great-grandfather" she began to investigate her ancestry. A direct descendant of Chief (Sachem) Heni' Membertou, the first Mi'kmaq/MicMac native of Nova Scotia to be baptized by the Christian missionaries and the Chief of the Mi'kmaq tribe in Nova Scotia, her family intermarried with the first French colonists of Quebec and eventually migrated to the United States into Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. While you might expect a Native American to NOT be related the Royal families of Europe or the Merovingian Dynasty, that's not true. The French families they intermarried into were of Royal blood and can be traced more than 80 generations throughout England, Wales, France, and Palestine, with a few drops of Scottish for good measure. Enjoy the journey as you explore the many generations of Native American / French families as they melt into the fabric of Canada and the United States.

Although only 20 generations of ancestors and their families can be represented here in this book, the online ancestry tree stretches on for more than 100 generations, going back to Roman and Biblical times. The family can be found in Southern Illinois, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as many countries throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and Mesopotamia. As with many families, it eventually hooks into the royal houses of England and Scotland and the Merovingian Dynasty. Peppered with Knights Templars, Crusaders, Lords and Ladies, it also includes hard working artisan and farm families with large families, spreading throughout the countryside. While few pictures remain it is easy to imagine the Hoover pioneers living in log cabins, wood frame farmhouses, castles of Great Britain and fired brick homes in Mesopotamia. Enjoy the journey as you explore the family and check out the other 80 generations at Ancestry.com under the Ziegler Family Tree.

For generations the ancestors of Garrett Ziegler resided in Effingham County, Illinois. Before that they came from across the world; English, Scotland, Ireland, Wales on his father's side. Some extend as far back as Roman and Biblical times. On his mother's side, they are mostly German and lead back to the 1600s. Regardless of where they came from, they were hard working American families and fought in most every war that came along; the Revolutionary War, Civil War, War of 1812, WW1 and WW2. Included in this volume are pictures of family members, tombstones, and stories about what it was like to live as a Quaker in Revolutionary times. Enjoy the journey!

In January 2021, Kamala Harris became the first female Vice-President of the United States, and the first woman of color to be elected to that office. Kamala's ancestry is truly unique in that her father came from Jamaica with mixed Negro, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, and her mother from India. Both were academics and came to the United States to study. Jamaican heritage is vey difficult to trace as many births were not registered due to color of their skin, illegitimacy, or religion. Jamaica is an island that had been conquered by the Spanish and then the British, with multiple uprisings amongst the slaves who were finally freed by the British in 1832. Even then the legacy of British slavery and indentureship had made an impact. Inter-marriage was common between those who came as indentured servants and slave owners took advantage of the availability of female slaves to create a mulatto class of planters, land owners and business man. One of those men, Hamilton Brown, never married but produced at least six mulatto children. He came to Jamaica with his uncle from Tullyloob, County Down in Ireland and became first a clerk for a law firm, and then a land and slave owner; making him a rich man. His ancestry can be traced back to the great families of Europe and Persia and then to Canaan in about 3400 BC. While only 27 generations are presented here, due to page limitations, Kamala's family line is also available on Ancestry.com in the "Harris" family file. Enjoy the journey as you explore her rich and diverse heritage.

A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.

The Journals of Prince Henry Sinclair and his descendants (20 books and a lambskin map) were found by accident in 2005 in a dusty dirty basement in Greeneville, Tennessee. They then lay in a trunk in the back of the closet for almost 9 years before the author realized what she had. Translating the journals from Latin, Old English, and Modern English, she soon learned the own story of her 21st great-grandfather, Prince Henry Sinclair of Orkney and Scotland. Join the author and her great-grandfathers on a voyage of discovery as you learn about the covenant made between the St Clair/Sinclair and Wemyss families, the Templars, the Native Americans and the Freemasons. Book 1 of 20 tells the story of Henry as a young boy from the age of 8 in 1353 until 1395 when he plans a voyage with Captain Nicolo Zeno and his son Antonio Zeno to Greenland and beyond.

Joe Biden's ancestry is varied and complicated. The Biden family came from Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire, England to the Eastern shores of the United States in Maryland. While his grandparents on his Dad's side came from England, his mother's side was Irish, with a specking of German, Swiss, Polish and Italian. And yet, while both sides were very different, they both hailed from Merovingian lines, back to Biblical times. His line includes many Lords, Ladies, Kings and Queens of England, Scotland and Europe. It also includes the hard working common folk who owned their own businesses and farmed the land, served in the military and were ministers of the Church. Enclosed in this volume are 40 generations of his family; although the online Ancestry.com files include more than 100 generations. Are you related to the 46th President? Some of the surnames that appear are: Biden, Randle, Liddell, Bomberger, Robinett, Humphrey, Hanafy, Ward, Finnegan, Boyle, Roche, Fox, Bluett, Sclanlon, Stanton, and Arthurs. Related to Robert the Brus, the Kings of Scotland and Ireland, he also connects to Charlemagne and the ancient conquerors of Rome.

Neila Hunter, the wife of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. died at an early age and was never able to share stories of her ancestry with her small children who were left behind. For that reason I wanted to do this volume for her grandchildren so that they would appreciate the ancestors who had come before them. Neila's father was Robert Neil Hunter and his ancestors came from Ireland, England, and Scotland; coming into Canada in the early 1800s. They eventually made their way to New York and other New England states and became the backbone of their communities. Many of those British lines stretched back to the Kings and Queens and Scotland and England, and then to Europe. Her mother's side (Louise Basel) was equally diverse. Her maternal grandfather came from Germany and her maternal grandmother from Middlesex, England. Each side traces back more than 100 generations to Biblical times but due to the limit of 770 pages, I could only include 35 generations in this volume. (More is available on ancestry.com) All these lines were extremely well documented and included the ancient families of medieval Europe, back to Charlemagne through the great Counts of Germany and Italy. Some of the surnames include: Lippe, Von Mansfield-Mittelor, Von Waldeck-Eiseberg, Von Julich-Kleve-Burg, Reuger, Heusser, Vogler, Von Thafling, Gunzberger, Zahn, Ratjen, Basel, Reuter, Kurtz, Richberg, Woodcock, Burr, McQueer/McQueen, Whitney, Hunter, Anderson, Walker, Sanderson, McEachern, Smith, Graham, and Morris. May her grandchildren appreciate the trials and voyages that their ancestors made, so that they could become.

Abbeville, South Carolina was a center of Revolutionary action and often saw heated battles between the Patriots and the Loyalists who tried to regain the large village for England. Amongst the settlers were Captain Thomas Weems and his wife Elizabeth Redfearn. They owned many slaves, brought to the marriage from the Redfearn plantation in Virginia, and had a large family to run their large plantation south of the village. Today the name of Weems has spread across the southern states and is well known for both white and black farmers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and soldiers. The Weems treated their slaves well and built a school to teach them; a rarity amongst slave owners. When the Civil War was over, many stayed in Abbeville and the surrounding others, while others went to Georgia, Alabama and points west.

Doing genealogy is a life-time pursuit and can at times be very difficult; especially where adoptions are involved and little information is available about birth parents. Breaking through those barriers can be illuminating, especially when they lead to learning more about your ancestors and their origins than a DNA test can provide. Vincent Michael's genealogy is one of those that is extremely challenging but well worth the effort.Beginning in Jacksonville, Illinois where his family has lived for generations, it travels back through time to Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales, France and Switzerland. While the majority of the names are unfamiliar to historians and represent the hard working people who built the American nation, other names such as Henry 1, King of England, Charlemagne, Martel and Baldwin, the Count of Flanders are very familiar. For those familiar with Templar Knights research, there are also several Knights Templars sprinkled throughout the lineage in the de Montfort, Montdidier and Flanders lines.His ancestors came to the Americas as early as 1600, some as indentured servants, others as part of the aristocracy searching for new opportunities. They served in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and both World War 1 and 2. One of his ancestral families was the Goines family, descended from the first Negro freeman in America. Another stepped off of the Mayflower, and another was a Moravian soldier who stayed behind after the Revolutionary War. Regardless of where they came from, they were uniquely American in that they worked hard to establish their families and businesses and soon became an important part of the national fabric.While there are more than 100 generations represented here, extending back to Biblical times through Anna of Arimathea and the Kings of Ireland, there are still endless opportunities for original research. I hope that this give future researchers a blueprint to continue their own research.

Genealogy is a lifetime pursuit and it's very unusual to find someone whose pedigree can be traced back almost 100 generations. The ancestry of Kane Churko does just that. Although many of his lines are Hungarian, Polish, or Russia and are difficult to trace more than a few generations, as most Canadians he also has a few English, Welsh, and Scottish lines which seem to go on forever.Not only is he related to Atilla the Hun, but to Julius Caesar, Dagobert I and II, Merovech, Charlemagne, Prince Henry Sinclair, and the Grail Fisher King as well. Famous men and women are common as you go through the pages, including Elizabeth Stewart, Cleopatra, and Anna of Arimathea. There are even a few Templar Knights and Crusaders if you look close enough in the Montdidier line.Although it is difficult to document most events before 1500, some of the lines go back to 87 B.C. Enjoy the journey as you explore almost 100 generations of pedigree charts. Volume 2, which accompanies this book, will contain 50 generations of family groups.

Families often have amazing stories that accompany their family history and the Churko family is no different. The most amazing story is that of Thomas Tarbell who was killed by the Indians and his 3 children stolen. When rescued, his two sons refused to leave the tribe and remained with them, eventually becoming Chiefs of the Mohawk Tribe in Ottawa, Canada. His daughter was sold to a French family and eventually entered a convent. Others, such as John Rogers, the founder of the Rogerene Church movement and his father James are just as captivating. These stories are included along with the family groups with individual information included show the brothers and sisters of his ancestors as they stretch back into the centuries.On his father's side, families include Churko, Stevenson, Bright, Pritchard, Ferguson, Rogers, Maxwell, Hamilton, Murray, Molymeux, Leslie, Balfour, Crichton and Livingston. His mother's side includes names such as Meierhofer, Zurowski, Miller, Stark, Tarbell, Gould, Drake, Rowland and Brosseau. The Polish and Russian mix with the English and Scottish and along the way continue back to Gaius Julius Caesar, Atilla the Hun, Cleopatra, the Fisher Grail King and the Merovingian Dynasty. Enjoy looking up each of these people and celebrate how they've created the fabric of this truly American/Canadian family. Cover photo is Roger Brandt, Mohawk Chief and a descendant of the Tarbell line.

The story of Donald J Trump is one of 'from rags to riches.' Some of his recent ancestors in Germany - the Kohl family - were cabbage farmers. They came from the village of Kallstadt which was famous for wine making. His own grandfather, Friederich, came to the US as a barber. When he moved to Queens, New York, he and his son began to buy property. Friederic died in the 1918 flu pandemic and his son Fred carried on his American Dream. Before long, Donald and his siblings inherited his father's vast real estate empire. However, when looking at his more distant ancestors generations back, his family is anything but ordinary. His father's side, from Kallstad, Germany extends back more than 50 generations to the early Kings, Counts and royal families of Van Kessel, Van Leuven, and Bourgogne, to Childeric and the Merovingian dynasty.His mother's family, the MacLeods, come from the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Mull on the western shores of Scotland. Small, bedrock islands, they have been the home of the MacLeods, MacDonalds, Mackenzies, and MacNeils for centuries, all of whom President Trump is related to. Going back as far 500 BC, the family marries into all the clans of the highlands and also extend back to the Merovingian dynasty and the Sea-Kings of Sweden and Norway. Along the way, many attended the Crusades, some as Knight Templars. It is easy to see that the President seems to have inherited all the passion and authority of his distant ancestors and continues to surprise us on a daily basis. Ask yourself - Are you related to Donald J Trump, the most famous man on earth? If you have German or Scottish ancestry, you most likely are.

Many books have written about Albert Pike. Authors have discussed his early life and education, his travel to the western states, his history as an Oddfellow, Freemason, Knight of the Golden Circle, Ku Klux Klan and as a Native American advocate. They've dissected his writings, especially the Morals and Dogma, and tried to determine if his World War III letter is real or fraudulent.One thing they've never discussed are the things that happened around him as he grew older and what molded and formed his personality. They also have never talked about his family, his wife and his '10' children and the trials he went through as a father and a husband. Those are some of the things which I'd like to address.I believe that we are all the product of 'nature' and 'nurture.' In other words, we need to learn who his ancestors were; what attributes he might have inherited, what ideas and beliefs were passed down to him, and how the environment he grew up in influenced his ideas and writings.Albert Pike was the descendant of '3' of the original 9 Knights Templars, as well as the Kings and Queens of England, Ireland, Wales, France and Germany. The question is: Did he know? Did it influence what he believed?Enjoy the journey as we discover the man behind the legend. I think you'll be very surprised at what we learn.