Where can you find out if you have royal ancestry?

Question

I have tried ancestry.com but I don't have an account and I can't pay for one. So where is a place that I can explore ancestry for free and discover royal bloodlines, if any?

Answer 1

There are thousands of genealogical sites other than ancestry. It has some good information, but the main appeal is that many new researchers want it "easy".
The point of genealogy is finding YOUR OWN ancestors, irregardless of them being royal or otherwise. In other words.. start out looking for who were your gr grandparents, instead of "am I related to ?" In the most simple terms, you start by verifying you to your parents. Next, verify your parents to theirs. Thus, you are building a solid trail back. Start out with the right habit of making sure that you use RECORDS, even when you believe you know something. For example, it sounds dumb to "prove" your grandpa..but very quickly, you will get to the point where you are not working with what people know/believe, to where people don't remember or are not sure. That's where you are really *researching*, meaning finding the facts that others don't know.
www.cyndislist.com has a great section for beginners, and please take a moment to also check out the area about myths and scams in genealogy. Then, browse around her site, which is a huge collection of resources.
It IS NOT all online, and what IS online, is very often inaccurate. Personally speaking, I feel like the biggest 'rush' is finding the proof of an ancestor, when everyone else says "I can't find it". Many times, it simply comes down to the fact that they expected to find it on the internet, and were not willing to look beyond that. At the same time, use the net for what it is worth.

Answer 2

In addition to the above responses, I believe the general theory these days is that if you are a living, breathing human, then you have some royal heritage. There are many reasons for this and why this theory has some merit. A couple general theories are this: One is the numbers. There were less people in, say 1300, than there are today, so, all these people had to come from somewhere. If you do your research far enough back, chances are pretty darn near 100% you will cross paths with royalty on at least one line of your family tree. Another reason for this liklihood is that back in the old days, before health and medicine developed into what it is today, people often died of minor things that we don't even think about these days as being possibly fatal. Usually, these people were the "common" people, as they could not afford the medical care, such as it was, back then, but the royalty could. Also, these same "common" people were the ones who did all the fighting throughout history in all the wars through the ages, while most royalty held up in their castles. And, throughout history, if there were shortages of anything, like food, the royalty usually got what supplies there were first, leaving many "commoners" to do without.

So, it is probably not a question of IF you have royal ancestors, but WHICH royal ancestors.

Answer 3

The only way you can discover ANY relation to you is to START with you, then your parents, then grandparents and work backwards. If you happen to have royal ancestry, this will be discovered that way. There is no site, free or otherwise, where you can just type in your name and get a certified family tree back to 1200CE.

You have to do the work yourself, and just going back even 5 to 7 generations can often take years. It isn't easy, but it is a lot of fun, and you learn more about history, culture, and societies than you ever would in school. I love it!

Answer 4

Your not going to find a complete genealogy of your family on any website. You might find some of your family lines in some of the famiy trees. Then you must verify it. The information is submitted by folks like you and me, not necessarily experts. Most is not documented. You might see different information on the same person by different submitters. Then you will see repeatedly the same information from different submitters but without documentation. All too often people are copying without verifying. Use the information as clues as to where to get the documention.

Like Mind Bender said, you start with yourself and work back. Don't start with a royal house and try to work down to you.
Also not everyone with the same surname is related or share ancestors. So you have to trace the ancestry of the people in your family tree. Don't get involved in tracing a name.

Answer 5

There are a lot of free websites; try these:
Free sites: there are several to choose from. Start with:
http://www.searchforancestors.com/...

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/...

http://www.cyndislist.com/

Assuming they emigrated from Europe, start with Ellis Island and the Battery Conservancy sites:
http://www.ellisisland.org
http://www.castlegarden.org

Don't forget your public library. I live in a small town, but the library has subscriptions to www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com, as well as books, periodicals and someone to help folks.

Also, try these books:
Burke’s Landed Gentry, Burke’s Dormant & Peerage, Burke’s Peerage of American Presidents, Debrett’s Peerage, Oxford Histories, et al.
Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell by Marlyn Lewis, pub. 08 Oct 1997, Text: Adela of France.
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A Lineage to Caesar, www.prenticenet.com/roots/surnames/ancient/2caesar.htm Text: d1071
Stenmata Illustria, pub. 1825
Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales by Gerald Paget. Pub: Skilton, Edinburgh, 1977, Vol. I, p. 56.
Royalty for Commoners by Roderick W. Stuart, Pub: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1993, Subtitled: The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, King of England, Philippa.. Reviewed in TAG, Apr 1994 by Dr. David H. Kelly. Note: Poor, p. 103.
Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1760 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Pub. 7th ed., Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, 1992 or “Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists Who Came to New England, 1623 - 1650, Ed. 1 - 6, J H Garner.
Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet and Cecily deNeville by Ernst Friedrich Kraentzler, 1978.
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There are so many; just get started. Remember the powers of 2: you are 1 person; you had 2 parents; they had 2 parents, etc.
Consider:
35. 16,179,869,184 16,179,869,184 - 32,359,738,367
36. 32,359,738,368 32,359,738,368 - 64,719,476,735

NOTE: 35. is the 35th generation ago; 16,179,869,184 is how many people it would take AT THE 35TH GENERATION TO PRODUCE YOU if no one married a relative! The set of numbers after that is the people, reduced to a number FOR THAT PARTICULAR GENERATION!

Supposing two unrelated persons for each generation (no cousins, what have you), each generation would double. 36 generations ago was the late 800’s on Mom’s Ahnentafel. That was a long time after Adam & Eve !!!

The upshot of this is, since every town had its own king/queen, there is no doubt that you are descended from royalty! It is just a matter of tracing far enough back to prove it.

Answer 6

The Stuarts are technically the royal branch of the Stewart Clan of Scotland. The name was changed in order to differentiate the royal Stuarts from the rest. Princess Diana is a Stuart through Charles II of England. Charles II had many illegitimate children. Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, was an illegitimate grandson of Charles II, and his daughters were the infamous Lennox sisters which are the great, great (can't recall how many greats exactly) aunts of Princess Diana. The Stuarts came to the English throne after Elizabeth I (Tudor) died without issue, thus making Mary Queen of Scots' Son, James the VI of Scotland, heir to the English throne and he became James I of England. Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland/France was a Tudor through her Grandmother, Margaret Tudor, sister to Henry VIII.

Answer 7

You need to start research on your family's heritage. I done that and found out I have a Russian ancestor who was an empress. Her name was Elizabeth the great.

Good luck. You'll be surprised what famous ancestors are in your family's heritage.

Answer 8

You can use this site completely free of charge, it's an excellent site has to be amongst my favourites.
http://www.familysearch.org/
Hope this helps.

Answer 9

Everyone thinks they have royal blood parents should stop calling their daughters princess

Answer 10

I'm Spanish, Portugese, and Irish royalty. My grandfather knew we were so idk.