Can you trace your descent to any Biblical figures?

Question

I think its cool that many Jews can trace their descent to biblical figures like Aaron and King David. My family has a longstanding tradition of Davidic descent.

Answer 1

That is IMPOSSIBLE to do a genealogy going back 2000+.

It's a romantic notion and some people can trace their family tree over 300 years, but considering how wars destroyed fragile paper records, family names have changed, spelling changed, adoptions, etc can make tracing ancestry difficult.

Tracing more than 300 years is problematic. Tracing 2000+ years is IMPOSSIBLE.

What some people can do is trace the linguistic, geographic, and history of the family name, but to go beyond 300 years is very difficult especially if you have a common name.

Jewish family names have changed many, many times over the years of Diaspora which makes Jewish genealogy very difficult.

Answer 2

Shades of the Merovingians and the Priory of Zion--The House of Windsor and the House of Stuart supposedly trace their lineage back to the Davidic kings (or so read both official family trees, the plot line of "The Da Vinci Code," and a hefty percentage of the Anti-Christ/Conspiracy-theory web sites on the Internet). But a little past Charlemagne, they all might have a hard time proving it.

"Jewish paper trail genealogy hits a brick wall around 1800"
(http://deseretnews.com/on/view/!1249,660200646,00.html

---If anyone would know about this, the Latter Day Saints would.

However, DNA testing has shown males worldwide who match the Cohan signature:

http://www.msnbc.com/id/1108085/site/newsweek/page3

Then again, a wee bit of their family history back to the time of the Exodus is lost along the way. After the Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple in AD 73 and dispersed the Jews throughout the known world, any history of descent from biblical figures would have to be oral history.

By the way, given that at least 75 percent of all Europeans living today are descendants of Charlemagne, and knowing that the Diaspora scattered Jews throughout the known world, that narrows the Anti-Christ down to almost anyone of Jewish or European descent.

Answer 3

Yeah.
I do believe that I am a decendent of both Adam and Eve (of the Garden of Eden fame).

Truly, we are all common decendants of each other. Good luck on finding literal connections to specific persons in the past. I think it's great fun!

060507 6:41

Answer 4

The Nephalim

Answer 5

Eve on my Mom's side, Lillith on my Dad's side. We'll leave Adam out of the tree until DNA proves he was the father.

Answer 6

No, however through a very convoluted path, I can trace it to Charlemagne.

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Answer 7

i think u can only trace back to where ur ancesters came from (which continent)

Answer 8

Well, according to the bible yeah.... Adam and Eve.

Right?

Answer 9

i'm Jewish, and i am a Cohen, which means i am a descendant of Aaron.

Answer 10

Is this really a question? I dont' know my geonolgy.