How To Tell Who Your Ancestors Were

Were your ancestors famous historical figures? Well, in this video, we'll show you how to tell, and more.

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[judimardula]

I had an Aunt who was very interested in this. She even went to Ireland to continue her research. Most people of Irish descent can find a royal somewhere in their family tree. Turns out my ancestor was hung for sheep stealing. My Aunt gave up her hobby post haste.

[yesimokada]

*Me about to claim an ancient throne after concluding that I have nearly 2 drops of royal blood*

[jonahsemenchuk]

My grandpa was HUGE into this. He traced my family's heritage all the way to a man who was on the boats with prisoners to botany bay in 1789.

[trwht]

I'm what you call a Maori. We have this thing called Whakapapa which is like our way of keeping track of our lineage. A cool thing that I learnt about my whakapapa is that through my fathers side, our war chief Te Wherowhero (The Red Man) is my 7x great grandfather! Through Te Wherowhero, I can whakapapa all the way back to other significant people from my tribe such as Te Rauangaanga and Hoturoa.

[AsIfItNeverWas]

Gene pool: exists


Genghis Khan: *_It's free real estate_*

[greenman]

If "Nobility" is short for "No Ability", then yes, I am Nobility.

[TheGooberGrape]

My dad is obsessed with ancestry, he can never see your videos or he’ll stay up for 50 hours at a time doing related research. He’s already gone back hundreds of years in the family tree on both his side and my mom’s.

[IceBirdCajz]

My dad gave me a DNA test and we found out we were like 70% Portuguese/Galician and were descended from famous Conquistador warriors who were awarded nobility.

EDIT: I’m from Brazil and my last name means “bELt” in Portuguese.

[theburdplays]

dude 1: she's hot!
dude 2: she's my cousin!
dude 1: really?
dude 2: We're all cousins!
r.i.p. the bee movie

[hellraiser]

Me, full chinese, watching this : maybe king John is my ancestor

[amandapittar]

I have loved doing family history since I was a teenager and found my granny’s birthday notebook. When doing my husbands family tree some familiar names cropped up. We have a common ancestor. His father is descended from the elder son, my mother from the younger son. We are cousins 13 times removed. What’s funny is that we met in one country, both coming from other countries. We ARE all connected to each other in a way. I can claim James III of Scotland as an ancestor. Along with 50% of Scotland. Jamie got about a bit. We can all only be 100% sure of our matriarchal lineage. Such is life. Great video.😊

[ejtack]

my grandfather was very interested in this, and found out we were related to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

[riskyjack]

I would love to time travel just to map out my family tree.

[solaire]

Kinda crazy to think that literally billions of ancestors worked, fought and died for us to complain about slow wifi.

[randommf]

We all are descendants of nobility take this 👑 y'all drop it Kings and Queens

[JoaoVictor-rdgz]

I have a cousin in my family that knew that we were descended from the Portuguese, she went all in on her research about the family tree, turns out our family ''castelo branco'' was a noble family back in the day. With roots in the Portuguese and Spanish royalty as well as having a Jewish line, our family decided to group everyone together in the hope that we could get the Portuguese citizenship as it would've been much cheaper to get into the process if many people in the family would've agreed to it. So here we are with our European citizenship now hahahaha

[deadking]

Shoutout to everybody descending from the first Human Being

[rayhoodoo]

My surname in Latvian means “Oak leg”. Guess my ancestor was a pirate.

[triforcehero]

My family once did a genetic test. We found out a whole bunch of cool stuff, but one thing in particular that I thought was cool was that the company predicted that we were descendants of Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks. We also have roots in Western Russia and Scotland which is cool.

[Smart-tztr]

I did this one time for both my parents side. We traced back until the 18th century and the oldest ancestors were French, so I think I am fully French. On my father side, they were mainly farmers and some servants for rich families. On my mother side, they were almost all hunters and lived in the same village for many centuries. However, turns out that an ancestor on my father side stole something to ancestors of my mother side and he was killed by them for that. So basically, me and my sister are the offspring of Romeo and Juliet.