Calling All Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night Again -
Time For Some More Genealogy Fun!!
1) Today's challenge is to answer the question "Who Is the Earliest Ancestor In Your Paternal Tree?
2) Tell us about your earliest paternal ancestor in your family tree on your own blog post, in a comment here, or on your Facebook page. Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.
[thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!]
Here's mine:
The earliest ancestor in my family tree in the RootsMagic program is Charlemagne (747?-814), King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor. His WikiTree profile is Carolingian-77. His Wikipedia article is here.
He is my 33rd great-grandfather. WikiTree lists many paths from me to Charlemagne. I have chosen the closest relationship.
The WikiTree ascent from Charles Carolingian "Charlemagne" to me is:
1. Randy is the son of Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) [confident]
26. Basilia is the daughter of Alberic (Dammartin) de Dammartin (abt.1102-abt.1183) [unknown confidence]
33. Heilwig is the daughter of Gisela (Carolingian) di Friuli (abt.0819-aft.0874) [unknown confidence]
This makes Charles the 33rd great grandfather of Randy.
Is this correct? I have no idea. I hope that WikiTree has it correct. I have done no royal or medieval research on these people, and have relied on published books. I am confident in the line from me back to #17. Richard Charlton. I have another line on WikiTree back through Carloman, son of Charlemagne, that is two generations longer, in my RootsMagic tree.
Everything before 1600 is based on published books and royal and medieval research described in books like:
- Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013): vol. V pages 481-504, Appendix: Lines from Charlemagne to William the Conqueror.
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5 comments:
My answer would be far different if we looked at the maternal line! Three of my father's grandparents were born outside of the US and immigrate to the US between 1870-1904. The fourth grandparent's mother was the first in her family to be born in the US and his grandmother's aunts were born in Germany.
Regardless, I have been able to track my father's family in Italy on several lines back into the 1600s. (Gotta love Catholic church records!). His oldest documented couple is my 8th great-grandparents, Giovanni Battista Morabito (21 Aug 1607- bef. Apr 1681) and wife Santa Licopoli (abt. 1620-?) who lived in Scilla, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italia. In fact the family lived in Scilla, Italy for 6 generations until his grandmother and her parents immigrated to the US in chain migration style from 1890s-1900s, fortunately missing the devastating earthquake in 1908!
My tree is like the little teapot, short and stout. https://geneajournalsbyapearl.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/edmund-salter-my-earliest-paternal-ancestor/
I was able to go back a few generations. http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2024/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-who-is.html
Linda Stuufflebean reports in from Tahiti:
Today is our last port stop - Raiatea, Tahiti and then it's 8 sea days back to Los Angeles.
Here is my SNGF link: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2024/11/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-320/
A little late, but here is my post. https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2024/11/sngf-who-is-earliest-ancestor-in-your.html
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