Anyone else interested in genealogies?

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Recently I've become fascinated with genealogies, particularly the genealogies of European royal families. I love thinking about the orders of succession and how complicated that can get, and I love seeing how interconnected all the royal families have been through marriage. So, I've been spending a lot of my time recently researching and writing up genealogies. Is anyone else at all interested in this?

I am. I love tracing royal geneologies. I can trace some royals all the way back to the Middle Ages.

Periodically, yes. I once constructed the genealogical tree of ancient Greek deities. To put it mildly, the tree turned out to be interconnected. – In the real world, along with my history studies, I like to construct such trees of those royal families about whom I'm reading. I suppose my contribution to the subject is much like yours, above.

I like researching family history,I've gotten as far back as the late 1500's in London,the All's Hallow in the Wall district.But sometimes you find disturbing things,like Puritans.

Persian85033: Which royal families have you looked at? Mainly I focus on the English royal family, but recently I've looked at Danish and French as well.

Krabo: I've had a little look at the genealogy of the Greek pantheon. I think I know what you mean by it being very interconnected.

Misslizard: I can trace my family history directly back to the early 1700s but it would be amazing to go back further. As for the Puritans, I agree that there are some very disturbing things in the way many people put Puritanism into practice but I really like reading the works of the Puritan theologians, like John Owen and Matthew Henry

Good to know I'm not the only one who does this

I've looked at the English royal family from the Plantaganets. I've also looked at the Jacobites and other alternate lines of succession. I've also looked at the French starting with the Francois I. The French are a bit difficult because of Salic Law. Henri III and Henri IV were like ninth cousins. The easiest ones are the Bourbons, although it skips a few generations sometimes. Louis XV was a great grandson of Louis XIV. Louis outlived both his son and grandson. Then Louis XVI was Louis XV's grandson. Also the Spanish from the Trastamaras. Also the Romanovs. I'm also looking into the Scandinavian royal families, most especially where the house of Oldenburg ended with Frederick VII. I'm also interested in the Hapsburgs. I'm also looking into some of the more minor families, like Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Hesse, and those.

Yes, I'd love to trace back my family tree to see what great or terrible things my ancestors have done.

Very much so! Not into royal genealogies much, but I am highly interested in my own and have researched it heavily. My dad's side of the family knew of nothing before 1870 or so. In the last six years, I was able to get it back to the late 1700's, then found a few relatives who had it back to the 1500's. On my mom's side, we have it back to the 1600's in several spots, and if one tenuous connection is accurate, then we have one line back to Brian Boru in 1000.

I love genealogy, but I prefer to research my own.

I've always wanted to trace my own, but I've never been able to.

I've especially always wanted to know more about my maternal grandfather's family. Unfortunately, he was a bit like me in that he didn't talk much about his family. My mom says he never told her and her siblings much, either. The most they knew was that he was divorced, and had a sister whose tomb he visited, but that he never took them with them, and they don't even know where she is buried. I know a bit more about my father's family, both from the name, and a portait of his paternal grandparents. His grandmother was a native, and his grandfather was most likely of Spanish descent(well, most of us are, despite what some people might think)if he wasn't Spanish himself.

My dad (who I suspect may be an Aspie) is a big fan of genealogy.

I have done my family tree and have a few thousand people on there now. I've managed to get back to the 13th century for some branches. It helps that most of my family really didn't move around much, and I have some unusual surnames. I was quite obsessed with it a few years ago, and pleasingly managed to track down some real life relations. Not that I've really had much contact with them, but that's to be expected really.