Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Debi Barton Thompson on the Facebook group asks Have you researched your own genealogy? If so, any surprises?

Yes, I am the 20th great grandson of King Robert II of Scotland. Just to give you an idea how meaningless that is, there are over a million people in your 20th generation of ancestors, not including all the people in the subsequent generations.

I literally have one great-grandparent that this lineage comes from. She was the only ancestor I had that had any ancestry from continental Europe.

I’ve been able to trace other branches of the family tree from the 19th to the 17th centuries. It becomes very hard to do genealogy in Germany once you get to the 30 Years War because so much was destroyed.