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Part 3 of Meredith Cain Inglesby's ancestry includes the furthest back bloodlines through England, Wales, Europe. and Tunisia. It also includes stories about some of Meredith's ancestors and the index to all 3 books. Enjoy the journey as you travel into the distant past and end in Tunisia in about 1850 BC. Cover photo is of the Antonine Baths in Tunisia, from approximately 2000 BC.

Part 2 of Meredith Cain Inglesby Ancestry includes the remainder of the 70 generations; It extends through the royal houses of Britain and Europe and includes the Carolingian, Merovingian, and Roman Imperial bloodlines. It extends all the way to Deatha Mac Ertha, born about 1850 BC from Tunis, in Tunisia. Dunure Castle in Dunure, Scotland is shown on the front cover, and is the home of the Kennedy Clan. Please see Part 1 and Part 3 for additional information.

This volume contains the extended pedigree of Steven D Blanchard, however because books are limited to 800 pages, it is printed in 2 volumes with the index at the end of the 2nd volume. This pedigree is 134 generations and takes the reader back through Europe, Great Britain, and the Levant countries all the way to Adam. Along the way you'll find Kings, Queens, Lords and famous people you've heard of only in history books. Information before 1300 is difficult to document but is included as it was taken from already published genealogies done over the centuries by credible sources, and the Bible. There are always mistakes along the way so researchers are encourage to check the sources and to use these pedigrees as a guide in their own research. They are accurate as the author could make them at the time of publication. Front Cover: Artists conception of Methusaleh.

Many of the subjects ancestors were colonists on the eastern coast of the Americas in the early 1600s. Three of them were ship's captain who piloted the Mayflower, the Godspeed and the Susan Constance, the ships which brought the colonists to Salem, Plymouth and Jamestown. Many of these same families married into the Native American tribes of the east coast. As these families moved west to Wisconsin, they married into other Native American tribes creating a mosaic of American ancestry. Before coming to the colonies, these families represented some of the most prestigious (and sometimes combative) clans of Scotland; including the MacLeods and Campbells. Descended from Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annadale, the family married into the Sinclairs and Wemyss families, as well as many others. Wayne's genealogy travels throughout England, Wales, and Europe into Jerusalem and can be documented back to 352 BC. Enjoy the journey as you learn about some of the adventurous men and women who formed this unique family. The front cover is an artists conception of the colonial ships arriving at Jamestown where the Native Americans were already resident.

Some of the simplest families have great roots. The family of Alva Mathews and Sharon Pugh, while raised in Arkansas, USA have puritan roots in colonial times on the Eastern seaboard of the Americas. Before that they can be traced back to Wales, Scotland, England and beyond. Descended from Kings and Queens of Wales and England their heritage extends far past the 30 generations that are represented here. Some of their more famous ancestors are Sir Henry Morgan, Pirate of the Caribbean and Sir Richard Hawkins, Queen's privateer/pirate and cousin of Sir Francis Drake. Enjoy carousing the pedigree of this family as you go back over a 1000 years of history. The entire file is available to the public on Ancestry.com under Pugh-Mathews Family tree.

The Seyfert family has been embedded in Saxony, Germany for centuries. Leading back to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne. For the most part, ancestral lines can be traced back to the 1500s, the extent of the parish registers while at least 2 lines can be traced back to 1100 through Charlemagne, King Charles II of England, and King Louis of France. Representing the stalwart families who built Europe, it spans most of Saxony, Germany, the city of Berlin, and Slovakia.Front cover photo: Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor

When the Dutch and German settlers left Europe for South Africa, they had no idea what to expect. Like their fellow Calvinists and cousins who went to Plymouth Colony in the Americas, these people left Leiden, Netherlands for the Cape Colony in South Africa. Here they faced hardship and conflict as they settled amongst the African tribes of southern Africa, the British and Sweden as they fought for control of the colony. Businesses, farms, and wineries were built and families intermarried with other ethnic groups and freed slaves. Many of those freed slaves became property owners in their own right and the Cape Colony grew exponentially. Some of the free slaves actually lived at the Castle of Good Hope, the oldest building on the Cape and many of the ships that brought them cave into Table Bay. Many of Rosa's ancestor were original Progenitors, meaning they were the first of that name to come to South Africa.Front cover: Castle of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope

Like many religious refugees of the early 19th century, Allan Larsson's ancestors came from places like Gotland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Holland, France and Portugal to the Cape of South Africa in search of a new life. It was here that they established churches, businesses, and farms. They intermarried with other European families and started new lives. Life was difficult in this lush area and the colony changed hands several times from Dutch, to British, to independent. Wars were fought and new land was conquered, although sometimes at an overwhelming price. Through it all, these families weathered it all and adapted to their new way of life. Many of these families were Calvinists or Quakers, descendants of some of the finest families in Europe. These included such families as Tancred, King of Sicily, Agricola and Marie Everts, a freed-slave landowner from Guinea.Front photo - Jan van Riebeeck arrives at the Cape Colony of South Africa in 1632 with the first Dutch Settlers.

A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.

The Journals of Prince Henry Sinclair and his descendants (20 books and a lambskin map) were found by accident in 2005 in a dusty dirty basement in Greeneville, Tennessee. They then lay in a trunk in the back of the closet for almost 9 years before the author realized what she had. Translating the journals from Latin, Old English, and Modern English, she soon learned the own story of her 21st great-grandfather, Prince Henry Sinclair of Orkney and Scotland. Join the author and her great-grandfathers on a voyage of discovery as you learn about the covenant made between the St Clair/Sinclair and Wemyss families, the Templars, the Native Americans and the Freemasons. Book 1 of 20 tells the story of Henry as a young boy from the age of 8 in 1353 until 1395 when he plans a voyage with Captain Nicolo Zeno and his son Antonio Zeno to Greenland and beyond.

Abbeville, South Carolina was a center of Revolutionary action and often saw heated battles between the Patriots and the Loyalists who tried to regain the large village for England. Amongst the settlers were Captain Thomas Weems and his wife Elizabeth Redfearn. They owned many slaves, brought to the marriage from the Redfearn plantation in Virginia, and had a large family to run their large plantation south of the village. Today the name of Weems has spread across the southern states and is well known for both white and black farmers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and soldiers. The Weems treated their slaves well and built a school to teach them; a rarity amongst slave owners. When the Civil War was over, many stayed in Abbeville and the surrounding others, while others went to Georgia, Alabama and points west.

The story of Donald J Trump is one of 'from rags to riches.' Some of his recent ancestors in Germany - the Kohl family - were cabbage farmers. They came from the village of Kallstadt which was famous for wine making. His own grandfather, Friederich, came to the US as a barber. When he moved to Queens, New York, he and his son began to buy property. Friederic died in the 1918 flu pandemic and his son Fred carried on his American Dream. Before long, Donald and his siblings inherited his father's vast real estate empire. However, when looking at his more distant ancestors generations back, his family is anything but ordinary. His father's side, from Kallstad, Germany extends back more than 50 generations to the early Kings, Counts and royal families of Van Kessel, Van Leuven, and Bourgogne, to Childeric and the Merovingian dynasty.His mother's family, the MacLeods, come from the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Mull on the western shores of Scotland. Small, bedrock islands, they have been the home of the MacLeods, MacDonalds, Mackenzies, and MacNeils for centuries, all of whom President Trump is related to. Going back as far 500 BC, the family marries into all the clans of the highlands and also extend back to the Merovingian dynasty and the Sea-Kings of Sweden and Norway. Along the way, many attended the Crusades, some as Knight Templars. It is easy to see that the President seems to have inherited all the passion and authority of his distant ancestors and continues to surprise us on a daily basis. Ask yourself - Are you related to Donald J Trump, the most famous man on earth? If you have German or Scottish ancestry, you most likely are.

Many books have written about Albert Pike. Authors have discussed his early life and education, his travel to the western states, his history as an Oddfellow, Freemason, Knight of the Golden Circle, Ku Klux Klan and as a Native American advocate. They've dissected his writings, especially the Morals and Dogma, and tried to determine if his World War III letter is real or fraudulent.One thing they've never discussed are the things that happened around him as he grew older and what molded and formed his personality. They also have never talked about his family, his wife and his '10' children and the trials he went through as a father and a husband. Those are some of the things which I'd like to address.I believe that we are all the product of 'nature' and 'nurture.' In other words, we need to learn who his ancestors were; what attributes he might have inherited, what ideas and beliefs were passed down to him, and how the environment he grew up in influenced his ideas and writings.Albert Pike was the descendant of '3' of the original 9 Knights Templars, as well as the Kings and Queens of England, Ireland, Wales, France and Germany. The question is: Did he know? Did it influence what he believed?Enjoy the journey as we discover the man behind the legend. I think you'll be very surprised at what we learn.