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Is Everyone a Descendant of Royalty?

Matt Baker (Useful Charts) explains it very well.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Uce4fG4R0
Does it matter?
Not unless you're a Hapsburg. They ruined their lineage by inbreeding.
We can trace our ancestry back to various kings and queens through the paper-trail. There are many European Royals in both our Hall and Pickett lineage.  For the Neilson-Prisbrey side, we go the Danish royals and Viking route. Note 1
We have several lines going back to royalty on both Hall and Pickett sides of the family. Percy, D'arcy, Neville, Clifford, Herbert.

What about tracking our family history through DNA? 

Yes, we ARE paper-trail-connected to Charlemagne on Alvin Hall's lineage. 

No we cannot trace our DNA to Charlemagne.

Don't believe everything you hear about how valuable DNA tracing is.  Fact is, the further back you go, the more diluted the clues are.
It's a math thing:  (4:33) Andy Lee from Family History Fanatics, shows why DNA isn't a great way to track your genealogy.


    • An individual gets Genes from both their parents, say 50 per cent from father and 50 per cent from mother.  That means you get 25 per cent from each of 4 grandparents. Since you have 8 Great-Grand-parents, the amount of DNA you get fro    m those guys is about 12-1/2 per cent and yada, yada. 
    However, if your pedigree had individuals who married their cousins or two brothers who married two sisters, like we have in our Parshall-Terry line, the genetics aren't as diluted.  If doesn't expand exponentially, the lines compress.

    If you're interested in tracking your DNA locations, you can do that on-line.  This is a sample report for my mitochondrial DNA from Ancestry.com.  Once you spit on the swab and they run the report of your genome, (23 markers) you can upload that to Family Tree DNA, or other.  For medical testing, most people used 23andMe, but I believe they've gone kaput.  If you did 23andMe, the question is:  who has your DNA now?  Did they sell it to a clone factory?  There's a lot of hype, truth, and fear around this subject.  Ancestry.com claims they destroy the "test".  Who knows if that's true or if they put "you" in their vast archival vault in the mountains of Utah.   Yep, that's a real place: https://mormonwiki.com/Granite_Mountain_Records_Vault

     

     

    Think of the map as a DNA locations INDICATOR only.

    What Ancestry.com is doing, is collecting DNA and ALSO compiling the data that the people doing their genealogy have input. Their DNA inheritance chart tells which region of the map came from which parent. I have 21% Danish ancestry all from my father's Neilson lineage.

    The ancestry.com site is a work in progress as to tracking ancestral migrations. 

    You can tell at a glance it's not at all right.  Where are our Pilgrims in New England?  As you can see by the map below, they only show ancestor travels for a few families. . . there is NOTHING for our Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Canada, or any other place I've got on my pedigree charts.  Yes, many of those colonial immigrants came here in the 1600's.  Without being able to delete the travels-time-line, this portion of ancestry.com is useless for giving you a picture of where you're from.  They seem to be skipping all the U.S. generations until the pioneers came to Utah.  What's up with that? 

     

    While we're on the subject of DNA, let's look at physical characteristics as indicators of where your lineage is from (not going to discuss haplo-groups here).  People can typically guess at someone's origins, for instance, Asians have certain characteristics we can spot.  When I've seen very short Latinos here in Michigan, I have asked, "Is your ancestry from Guatemala?" and I'm often right.  When I see tall people from China, I'm likely to guess Mongolian ancestors. It goes like that, but it's not cut and dried, just general observations.  In my own family, the tall siblings got that characteristic from the English and Scandanavian ancestors.  The shorter ones exhibit our Danish genetics.

    [ PLEASE SEE: DNA-2 Compare Visuals Ancestors and cousins. ]

    I bring this up for a couple of reasons:

    1)  I have one sibling whose dark hair made her believe she was adopted.  The rest of us, as kids, were tow-headed blondes whose hair darkened as we aged, and our father was more Danish and German than British Isles. Then there's my half-sister, whose father was Scandinavian, so she's a natural blonde — all her life.

    When I lived in Laguna Niguel, CA, we had a neighbor from Ireland.  I then learned about the "dark Irish" as her hair was almost black, but her skin was very fair.  I'm not talking about the Black-Irish as in Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  He found out his family was from Ireland, and not from American slaves.  I believe my dark-haired sister exhibits this particular Irish trait. Dark hair, fair skin. Contrary to popular belief, only about 10 percent of Irish people are red-heads.

    Here's a good comment about the Irish phenotypes and regions.

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    We have dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and pale skin.

    Sounds stereotypically Irish to me. I'm born and raised in Ireland and this is what many of us look like. Although my skin tone wouldn't be too out of place in the Mediterranean! It's possible that all Irish looked this way before lighter featured people settled.

    While most Irish statistically have blue eyes & dark hair - but brown eyes are the dominant feature on along the Western Coast. Red hair is often found along rivers (due to river trading I assume?) - and blond hair is most common in the East.

    Many documented invasions of Ireland often led to the displacement of Irish from the more fertile East to the more mountainous West - so it's possible that early bronze age migrations followed the same example. Mountainous regions are also easier to defend so hard to conquer.

    Endogamy and geographic isolation kept various populations somewhat separate to the point that DNA maps of Ireland line up surprisingly well with historic kingdoms

    2)  Don't judge a book by its cover, since we're all melting-pots for a melded humanity.  And now that the globalists have infiltrated all the countries with migrants, there's no more "normal" when it comes to discerning where someone might have ancestry.  For instance, in Belgium (2025), for those age 18 and under, 83 per cent were NOT born in Belgium!  It has become a brown-skinned country.  From our "melting-pot" we're destined to forge the new humanity, and ethnicity will be a thing of the past. 

    Lets not get too wrapped up in knowing where we came from.  It matters not.  We all came from source and we'll all return to source.  I call it the ocean of life, and we're each a drop therein.  We live our lives adding to the vast knowledge of God-source, then we return to source, having learned so much here!  And hopefully contributed well to the whole.

    WOO STATEMENT:  when we rise in consciousness, we'll all know where we REALLY came from.  Who is your "star family"?   Which planet did you hail from in order to come to Earth and to work on the upliftment of the Human race?  Will you communicate with that star family?

    If you're using a web site such as ancestry.com or familytreeDNA, here's how it will track your DNA matches, in terms of how much genetic linkage you share with someone.

    For instance I share 1854 Centimorgans with Aunt Lorna, then 1101 CM with her son Ron, then by the time I get to Ron's son Isaac, it's diluted to 535cm of DNA shared with him. Ron is my first cousin. Isaac is first cousin, once removed.

     

     

    Long lost cousin, Ken Rinderhagen shares a lot of DNA with me.  Adopted in Salt Lake, he, his daughter Amy Lisardi, and myself, along with Peter Hoyt (Prisbrey line) figured out that he is the biological son of uncle, Jay Neilson.  The DNA profile could have pointed to my dad Wayne, or Jay who were both in Salt Lake at the time working as linemen for the phone company.  When I sent Amy our Neilson family photo, she said it's absolutely Jay.  She felt there was no need to petition the Utah State Archives for the adoption record. As males, Ken would have shared the same Y-chromosome with both Jay and Wayne Neilson. The adoption records would have been the kicker as to which was his dad.

    The mystery pointed to a different mother, Fern Warner. Ken was born in 1942, and Jay married Ruth Rook in 1943.. Amy and Ken were able to Link up to his birth-mother's family before he died.   Amy's daughter, Micaela, definitely looks like our Toric Neilson, when he was younger.  When I told her Toric's skin tone was because he had a Hispanic mother, she laughed, because Micaela's father was also Hispanic.

    For a visual representation of DNA be sure to check out my DNA-2 Visual DNA link.

     

    That's all I'm going to say on the matter.  The Next Generation software includes DNA Test Sharing, but I have excluded that from this web site.  There are many avenues you can take if you want to explore it further.  I initially did ancestry.com for the mitochondrial test (checks female line). Then uploaded it to Family Tree DNA.  If you want the testing for tracking medical genetics, you'd probably want to use 23andMe, where you can compare each strand.  FTDNA has add-ons to be able to compare many things, but I didn't pay for those spendy things.

     

    Note 1:  I have a great, but diminutive,  book entitled "The Icelandic Sagas"  which goes back in time to about 800 A.D. writing about all the travels of the Vikings, Danes, Scandanivian peoples and where the various clans settled, including the descriptions of their properties. The translator starts off by proclaiming he left out a lot of it because it was just a bunch of lists of genealogies.  ARGH, "how could you?" says the Genealogist in me!  OUCH, says the reincarnated Viking in me!  Which ship was I on?  Where did I get the broad-axe to the neck? I've included a story of Rollo the Viking for my brother G. Wayne Neilson.  He's the Viking among us.   Link is on this page: https://famlink.com/histories/HistoryIndex.html

    WOO STATEMENT:  When looking at the spiritual nature of things, we can sometimes carry wounds through lifetimes.  In the modern world, my chronic neck pain may have been 'caused' by a roll-over car wreck. Or I may have reclaimed that axed part of my soul for this lifetime. Perhaps my head was placed on a pike such as our ancestor, Sir Henry Hotspur Percy.  Whatever the reasons, we need to clean up our akashic records to move into the golden age.  There's not going to be any carry-over of pain and suffering, neither physical nor emotional.  No more re-do's.  No more reincarnation, just enlightened humanity.  The chaos we're seeing in the world these days is people resisting their consciousness-raising uplift.