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there's some corroboration the problem is is there's not we
almost 3,400 years before so it's almost a thousand years
contemporary wise well if I was writing about the time of 500
that is recorded there for Adam and so you can't trace your
ancestry back to Adam is going to include that segment of our
chronology and he put Adam at about 4,000 BC and many others
So finally, let me give you another example about
to 600 BC you really wouldn't call that contemporary would
that you can find out about upcoming E conferences that
have are from 6 BC yet Adam was from 4,000 BC, which is
miss another episode of Family History Fanatics. Be sure to
older than we are from the oldest records of the Bible so
antiquity, put them in the comments below and I'll try to
corroborating evidence nope it's not happening If you have
tracing your ancestry back by looking at documents you are
it's going to have to be that lots of people are involved in.
modern day translations for it. We know that there are separate
to actually provide a translation. In that case,
various people over hundreds of years from all the manuscripts
Adam's descendants through several generations and so any
trace your ancestry back to Adam. What we're going to do is
think about that, the oldest records of the Bible that we
that have been found to date the oldest are only from about
going to have to have a team of people that understand all
600 BC. so about 25002600 years ago. Bishop Usher made a
where a new language that you have to understand to really
there was French influence there was Scandinavian
language but we have no idea what those records say because
there's nothing that corresponds with something else
understand the records. At some point, you're going to come
when you start to think about this of all the different
you because you can't get the information out of em. Now,
evidence you're going to have to rely on somebody else and
we're going to go to the Bible because that actually lays out
the records that are going to give you the documented
the world like Europe or even England well there's English
influence with many of those dialects so if you are really
those documents aren't going to be genealogically valuable to
that not going to be in modern day English those might be in
if you don't understand at least genealogical terms in
across dead languages or languages that don't even have
be some records back to 1066 with the Norman invasion and
those languages you're not going to really be able to read
there you're going to run into more and more the same problem
groups of people part of the nobility that there may still
middle English they might be in French and actually medieval
French whatever that sounded like they might be in Latin
even so if you aren't conversant in those languages
any questions about tracing your ancestry back to
lineage back to Adam at least in a genealogical sense now if
you want to do that from your own religious sense that's fine
but having documented relationships with
you so if we're going to on the Bible as a source well maybe
don't have any corroborating evidence for that descendency
have done similar things with similar results. So if you
ancestry. Now, the records of the Bible were written by
these different languages so it's no longer going to be an
contemporary records and how that affects whether you can
effort that just you are doing or even your aunt was doing
there's old English there's middle English there's Celtic
languages in the world even just in some small corner of
much beyond that it's only going to be with the select few
now as you go further back in time while there may be records
researchers have found more and more as we've uncovered little
and has me at the bottom or else I'm going to kill you, I
longer fact at all but pure fiction the fourth major
recorded the christenings the marriages and the burials but
seeing or even just making stuff up and that's what
they were going off of myths, what maybe the bards have been
the Jews so when you think about what was happening is
people were tasked with finding out this king, this warlord,
that's when they began to keep the parish records that
for genealogy but that wasn't why the record was created. Tax
all had some other purpose. For instance, census records are
for the first two generations, it might be correct but once
they got past where their records were even available,
speaking world maybe you can trace some of your ancestors
problem as we trace our ancestors back is language now
major problem as we go back in time is that the records are
bits of history is that a lot of these genealogies of the
these records were not created with genealogy in mind. They
When we think about genealogical records, all of
relationships of mothers and fathers and children is a bonus
needs to pay taxes. We have membership records in churches
with a bunch of names on it that has Odin at the top of it
nobility, there may have been more records kept for them but
problems with tracing our ancestry back in time is by the
was to show that the nobility were related back to the old
made to count people. The fact that we record the
this chieftain was related back to the old gods or the old
think about all the different ancestors that you have and now
ruling cast and probably under pain of death, he had to
but the further back you go, records start to fall off.
records are being kept and so the further back you go, the
For instance, births, marriages, and deaths or
descended from Judah because that was the ruling clan from
question why was this record set made one of the big
time you get to the Middle Ages most of the records are based
list are made to identify who owns what property and who
had the right to rule because they were descended from Odin
nobility and those family trees were made for a reason and the
going to be really difficult to find multiple records to
corroborate a documented relationship. So, the second
because a lot of the records in the 20th century and even the
lot of those people are the same but it's a lot of hours.
at some point, the literacy rate really affects what
less records are even available to look at and so when you
research, the more records we have to find for all these
problem is the record availability. Now, we live in a
nobility of Europe at some point break down and are no
19th century have been preserved for our time today
could decide pretty quickly what I wanted to do and yeah,
get back further you have to consider and that takes time if
back to the 1600s in England or maybe even the 1500s because
time and so you can see the further back you go in time the
lines that you have to go through. Now, that means that a
if you think about yourself if you're part of the English
produce a family tree showing that. Well, think about your
back to about 1000 AD so we haven't even back to where
generation have eight and then we have 16 and it doubles each
grandparents and that's just four people. The next
records start to disappear, you have about 4 billion different
more people you have to start to research the more lines to
fact, if you even start to go through records probably in an
marriage records that are associated with your
situation. If somebody said, hey, give me a piece of paper
find most of the census records, the birth records,
counting who's in the church and those people but they
afternoon or a weekend or maybe even just a week, you could
to trace our ancestors back in time is record reliability.
time when we have been able to digitize stuff when we have
preservation of our written documents and that's been great
relationship to the next generation. The second major
different people in order to show that we have a documented
run into is the further back we go, the more people we have to
all of those different lines. So, that's the first problem we
and later as they joined the Christian faith that they were
kings or the old gods that in the Engle Saxon tradition they
record of. Now, for people that may have had money or the
reason was to show what actually happened the reason
genealogically important information about them. In
with both sets of grandparents and find out a lot of
for births and marriages that again, they have a purpose of
weren't always created with genealogy in mind and because
of that as we go further back in time we need to start to
still very manageable. Again, you could sit down on a weekend
corroborated relationship. The third major problem as we start
Well, simply put, I mean that you have two parents and two
you could sit down with your mother and your father and you
people is really easy to get some information on. In fact,
not always available that could even give us a documented
the fact that there's not as many records anymore, it's
the most part until about the 16th century. So, all of those
off of certain family trees that were created by the
information. Their you have four grandparents and that's
birth marriages and burials before that, there's usually no
we're just talking about an hour for each person by the
that's what I want to talk about today. So, the first big
creates another piece of paper that says, Andy was born on
problem is lines of ancestry and what do I mean by that?
be independent of each other in a Other words, if I make a
that tell us the same information. So, as we're
a certain point, we run into some very big problems and
Sometimes, it's because those records were never even kept.
christenings, marriages, and burials weren't recorded for
such and such a date. Well, those two records aren't
record and so when we're talking about corroboration, we
independent because they're all based off of the exact same
want to have at least two and hopefully a lot more records
In fact, there's not enough time in your life to research
time you get to say your 30th great grandparents you're only
that's written down but records could be something that's
start to go back we usually think of records as something
contemporary records now records is really loose as you
trying to trace our lineage back in time, once we get past
that's been passed down for generations in some instances
now by corroboration I mean that you have to have multiple
genealogy or family history is we want to have documented
could interview them in an afternoon and have a wealth of
relationships for each generation and that documented
relationship has to be corroborated with other
should linge back to Adam. What we're talking about with
something it could even be an oral history that somebody has
records that support the same thing and those records have to
the way back Adam and so there's a name saying that this
record and I say on a piece of paper, I was born on such and
such a date and I give that paper to a friend and he
140 generations. The major thing lacking with that is
son or daughter blah blah blah and like I said, about 220 to
maybe they don't know who has put together that has names all
they have a family tree that somebody maybe they know who
person was the son or daughter of this other person who was a
inscribed on stone it could be a piece of pottery that record
did that even make sense well let's talk a little bit about
what people might mean when they say that they've traced
recognize but all the names in between were were those real
about 10 or fifteen generations, those names start
there's no documentation on these one-page sheets that Tray
parents and her grandparents and then once you get back past
forefathers are all recorded in the Bible and those names I
to look real really funny until you get back to Noah and his
their lineage back to Adam usually what they mean is that
way back to Adam. It was about a hundred and twenty, maybe
140 generations, had the names of obviously recognizable her
brought me the sheet of paper that showed her lineage all the
antiquity and whether it's even possible. When I was about 10
or 11 years old, I had one of my friends from school that
Howdy, I'm Andy Lee with Family History Fanatics and
today, we're talking about tracing our lineage back to
we're going to be a part of. all the way back to Adam? Well, let me tell you, it ain't
Have you had anybody tell you they've traced their lineage
happening.