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Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times. This blows that out of
by kitd 4y ago
Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times. This blows that out of the water by about 600 years.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times. China did not have a dark age and so descent from antiquity is relatively common there. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Confucius_in_the_main_line_of_descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Confucius_in_th... , 80 generations of the family of Confucius have been recorded. What would qualify this as "proven" to you?
- warbler73 4y agoIt's not proven at all. He takes speculative jumps to close gaps: > My conclusion is that his younger sister, Queen Nana (AD 295–337), married King Mirian III of Caucasian Iberia (AD 290–362). In a footnote he admits that the ancestry of the wife of Mirian III is unknown.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoYes, I noticed that, but that is a different kind of problem. There's no such thing as a proven genealogy extending back so far. Such a proof cannot exist. But as far as reasonably-well-documented claims go, going back to Saxon times is not even impressive on a worldwide basis.
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