This family tree website?

Question:How are these people connected to European royalty?
http://www.e-familytree.net/f797.htm

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: How are these people connected to European royalty?
http://www.e-familytree.net/f797.htm

You would have to trace the ancestry of each one to determine if they are connected to royalty. You can't go by what is on any website, free or paid.

The information in family trees on websites are usually not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, that is no guarantee it is correct unless there is documentation. A lot of people copy without verifying. The information should only be used as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.

You can make up a family tree for yourself and take your family line to Hannibal without one single shred of proof and can post it on any of the family tree websites.

this is what the owner of the site has, right on the front...
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DISCLAIMER: This is my speculative data. I've verified very little of it. Use it for hints and pointers, but do your own research!
*end snip*

My personal opinion is that speculative and genealogy don't belong in the same sentence.

I looked at this website and quite frankly, it is a person that I would give pretty solid marks to. The information seems well researched and well documented which means you can yourself check out the accuracy.

BUT...you do have to understand how the "records" of even a very solid person works. In any genealogical database of substance, there are solid entries, pretty solid entries and "just for fun".

If you got hold of my database, you would get about 7,000 people. Of those, about 800 are solid. People I have personally verified and researched and are referenced and documented. That is my core genealogy. The other 6,200? Well, those are just people I grabbed from somewhere and included - and prior to maybe 1600, really included just for fun. I don't pretend for a second that this is truly my genealogy. But if you look close, you will see how bogus they are. If I don't say where it comes from or indicate I just grabbed it, then nobody should use that information for anything more than fun.

This particular site seems to follow sound genealogical standards in this regard. They have a core researched set of people (normally it is anywhere from 3 to 7 generations about the person doing the research) but also have indicated that it is loaded with "just for fun" or "to be used for hints". That gives me a lot of confidence in their work.

You would have to start with the person you were interested in and click on his / her mother and father, then click on all four of the grandparents, all 8 of the great grandparents and so forth until you found out. You'd come to lots and lots of dead ends before you found out.

85% of the peope with French, German, English, BeNeLux ancestry (and lots of those with Swiss, Austrian and N. Italian ancestry) can trace back to Charlemagne if they work at it long enough, and take some lady's word for the paternity of her child.

Most of us who find we have royal blood do so via an unmarried lady who lived in a castle, came up pregnant and told her family she had been friendly with the Duke (Or the King; Henry II would couple with anyone who held still for more than 10 minutes.) It is usually a long haul, too. I trace back to Henry II of England, 1132 - 1189.

Once you get to HRH via an illegitimate child, you get connections to all sorts of royalty, because they married their daughters off to each other.

If you are seriously interested, go back to the 16 great great grandparents, write down their names, birth dates and spouse's names (or just keep two browser windows open) and look the same people up on

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

Use the name and birth year, and set year range to +/- 5. If you find someone, click on him/her, then click on "Pedigree". That will let you see 5 generations at a time.

As others have said, be cautious. The fact 14 people have the same person in their data base as Prince Edward's love child by Jenny Linn doesn't mean great grandpa should have called himself "LeRoy*". It may just mean that all 14 copied the same juicy but false tidbit.

*LeRoy was a common name for boys born sans father, from the French "Le Roi", or "Of the King".