Genealogical Research

The following article is an excerpt from a chapter of our forthcoming book: "The Shpoler Zeida – The Life, Legends, and Descendants of the Grandfather of Shpola."  The chapter is entitled: "Mysteries of the Shpoler Zeida Family."

Our decade-long genealogical research has been a dedicated pursuit to construct a family tree for a figure of profound importance in Chassidic history. This individual, born three centuries ago, is Yehuda Leib of Shpola (c. 1725–1811), a revered tzaddik known as the Saba Kadisha (Hebrew for “Holy Grandfather”) or the Shpoler Zeida (Yiddish for “Grandfather of Shpola”). His influence and teachings have left an indelible mark on Chassidic history, making our research all the more significant.

Our research has led us to identify over 5,500 descendants of the Shpoler Zeida. However, our journey was not without its share of enigmas and complexities. The intricate web of family connections, the gaps in historical records, and the challenge of verifying oral histories have all contributed to the depth and complexity of our research.

A particularly intriguing challenge was the discovery of fifteen families who claimed descent from the Shpoler Zeida, yet the specifics of their lineage remained unknown.  This lack of documentation has veiled their proud heritage in a cloak of uncertainty, shrouding their connection to the Shpoler Zeida in mystery.  As their lines of descent from the Shpoler Zeida were unknown, we have come to refer to them as the “Mystery Families.”

This article delves into the intriguing mystery of the Beletsky family (including the Belasco, Bell, Bruskin, Gellard, Goldberg, and Polis branches), who claim descent from the Shpoler Zeida.  The mystery involves how their earliest known Beletsky ancestor, Leiba Beletsky (1782–1846), and his wife, Risya (1789–bef. 1848), are connected to the Shpoler Zeida.

In this comprehensive research study on the Beletsky family's descent from the Shpoler Zeida, we painstakingly traced family records, cross-referencing them with historical documents and oral histories.  We believe that the available historical and genealogical evidence is sufficient to support the Beletsky family’s plausible line of descent from the Shpoler Zeida through his son Yaakov and the marriage of Yaakov’s daughter Risya to Leiba Beletsky and to connect them to the Shpoler Zeida family tree.

Historische Todesanzeigen, die aus Anlaß des Ablebens von Adeligen aus deutschen Ländern der Jahre  1912 bis 2009 gedruckt worden sind, können als wertvolle Quellen für die Ahnenforschung, die Familienforschung, aber auch die wissenschaftliche Forschung, gelten. Die hier präsentierte Liste nimmt sich dieser bisher vernachlässigten Quellengruppe an und erschließt bibliographisch den Quellenbestand.

Auch wenn die kulturhistorische Entwicklung von Tschechen und Deutschen über die Jahrhunderte von Rivalitäten in dem von Bergen umschlossenen Land Böhmen geprägt war, so ist am Beispiel der Entwicklung der Märchen zu erkennen, wie viel beide Bevölkerungsgruppen in der Erzähltradition inhaltlich lind stilistisch miteinander verbindet. Auch die „Sprachgrenze“ wurde in der Vergangenheit nicht nur mental ebenso bewältigt, wie verwandtschaftliche Bindungen den Scheitel des Habichtsgebirges, diesseits und jenseits des „Glatzkogels“, überwanden. Dies macht besonders der zauberhafte Hintergrund der Großen Doktoren-Geschichten deutlich.
Für CAPEKS und PREUSSLERS Geschichten kann, Walter SCHMITZ folgend, gleichermaßen festgestellt werden, dass sie die Tradition in lebendige Gegenwart des Erzählens übertragen, sie die Landschaft der Heimat in einen Raum der Geschichten verwandeln, der jedem zugänglich ist.

У статті за архівними матеріалами з’ясовано родовід Шевченкової матері Катерини Бойко від кінця XVIII ст. до середини ХІХ ст. Зокрема, установлено історію роду поета від прадіда Омеляна Бойка; уточнено відомості про найближчих родичів Т. Шевченка – дядька Павла, тіток Дарію, Євдокію й Ганну, розшукано інформацію про ще двох – Варвару та Мотрю. Спростовано твердження, що по лінії матері поета спадкоємців не було. На сьогодні віднайдено відомості про сорока вісьмох двоюрідних братів і сестер, сімдесятьох трьох племінників Т. Шевченка, трьох внучатих небожів. Вичерпний аналіз архівних матеріалів заперечує існування Агафії Якимівни Бойко, про яку в низці повідомлень у медіа йдеться, як про матір поета.

Le Fonds Noircarmes, conservé dans le fonds d'archives locales de la Bibliothèque de la Communauté d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, consiste en 63 boites d'archives (cotées de 206/1 à 206/63). Il regroupe un grand nombre de notes sur les familles nobles et bourgeoises de la région, dans l'esprit des fonds Sars de Solmont à Valenciennes, Pitpan de Montauban à Cambrai, ou Rodière à Dainville.

Il s'agit des dossiers constitués entre 1845 et 1926 par Fernand Joseph Hippolyte Violette de Noircarmes, notable de la ville.

Du même auteur, dans la collection "Relevés généalogiques" :
- Inventaire du fonds Noircarmes (Bibliothèque de Saint-Omer), 2001
- Terrier d'Ecques (1613), 2006
- Inventaire des terriers relatifs à l'Audomarois contenus dans les Archives du Chapitre de Saint-Omer conservées à la Bibliothèque de la Communauté d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, 2006
- Archives Communales de Douai : Contrats de mariage et ravestissements (1228-1494), 2011

В статье рассматриваются вопросы отражения в генеалогических преданиях истори-ческого сознания древних огузов, одной из главных ветвей тюркских народов. Как из-вестно, в духовной жизни кочевых народов исключительное место занимает знание о собственной родословной, о славных деяниях предков, поскольку именно эта инфор-мация, часто сакрализованная, являлась «идейной» основой спаянности рода или пле-мени, обеспечивала единство и солидарность этнического сообщества. У тюркских на-родов эта информация находила отражение, как правило, в так называемых шеджереили шежире (дословно — генеалогических древах). В средневековых исторических ис-точниках зафиксирован значительный пласт генеалогических преданий огузов, полу-чивших известность большей частью под названием «Огуз-наме». Изучение подобно-го рода материала позволяет судить об уровне развития исторического сознания древ-них огузов, об их представлениях о собственном прошлом, происхождении и ранней истории своего народа, обычаях и верованиях предков и т. д.

This paper is about a strict naming rule used at Davos (Switzerland) between 1559 and c.1650. It sheads new light on «naming conventions» or «naming patterns» in use in southern Europe, the British Iles, and several other regions, which however have never been considered as rules, due to a methodological error in genealogy.

Avec un impressionnant palmarès national (notamment à Metz et Brest), européen (avec Viborg) et mondial (dont les titres de championne olympique en 2020, de vice-championne olympique en 2024 et de championne du monde en 2017), la gardienne de l'équipe de France féminine de handball, Cléopâtre Darleux, est l'une des plus titrées de son sport.

Retour sur la branche artésienne issue de son arbre généalogique paternel et liens de parenté avec l'auteur et quelques autres célébrités.

Mise à jour au 4 octobre 2024.

Du même auteur, dans la collection "Généalogies de célébrités" :
- Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Dupont, Chef de Musique de la Garde Républicaine, compositeur de la sonnerie aux morts, 2006
- Madeleine Guillemant-Sintive, résistante, 2010
- Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Dupont, Chef de Musique de la Garde Républicaine, compositeur de la sonnerie aux morts, 2011
- Nos cousins célèbres d’Amérique originaires de Wicres, 2018
- Ernest Gésipe, Chef de bataillon, 2019
- Louis Cortot, Compagnon de la Libération, 2020-2021
- Aurélie & Pauline Desmet, les sœurs lilloises de Pékin Express, 2020-2021
- Cléopatre Darleux, Championne olympique de handball, 2021-2022
- Parentèle Caron, 2022
- Parentèle Desmons, 2022
- Parentèle épiscopale, 2022
- Parentèle Lardeur, 2022
- Parentèle « Pékin Express », 2022
- Parentèle « Plus belle la vie », 2022
- Parentèle Ratel, 2022
- Parentèle Brige, 2022
- Parentèle Courouble, 2022
- Parentèle Danel, 2022
- Parentèle Goubet, 2022
- Parentèle Hochart, 2022
- Parentèle Lezy, 2022
- Parentèle « L’héroïne de Loos », 2022
- Parentèle Tassez, 2022
- Parentèle Typrez, 2022
- Parentèle Carré, 2022
- Parentèle Fiévet, 2022
- Parentèle Goudalier, 2022
- Marie Hennerez, comédienne dans Plus belle la vie, 2019-2022
- Parentèle Desprey, 2022
- Parentèle maires de Calais, 2023
- Parentèle Delehedde, 2023
- Parentèle de Bernastre, 2023
- Parentèle Coudeville / Goddeville, 2023
- Parentèle Dubois & Lepoivre, 2023
- Parentèle Delebecque, 2023
- Parentèle Delepouve, 2023
- Parentèle Compagnons de la Libération, 2023
- Augustin Lesage, peintre médium, 2015-2023
- Parentèle Cadart, 2023
- Parentèle Catty, 2023
- Parentèle Daens, 2023
- Parentèle de Bersacques, 2023
- Parentèle Bouquillon, 2023
- Parentèle Delezoide, 2023
- Parentèle du Fourmanoir, 2023
- Parentèle vendéenne, 2023
- Parentèle Mullet, 2023
- Parentèle Dieu, 2023
- Parentèle Le Gentil, 2023
- Parentèle Desgardins, 2023
- Parentèle Delabre, 2023
- Parientes con los Alturanos y Segorbinos, 2023
- Parentèle avec Ulysse Carnel, 2024
- Parentèles Dunoyer de Segonzac & de Fautereau, 2024
- Parentèle d’une Fille du Roy, 2024
- Parentèle « série Marseille », 2024
- Parentèle angevine (1ère partie), 2024
- Parentèle angevine (2nde partie) : martyrologe révolutionnaire, 2024
- Parentèle de Rochemore, 2024
- Parentèle Gerberge de Saxe, 2024
- Parentèle de Namur (1ère partie) : télévision, 2024
- Parentèle Roquesoulane, 2024
- Parentèles Hamez & Nutte, 2024
- Parentèle Ployart, 2024
- Parentèle de Namur (2ème partie) : politique, 2024
- Parentèle de Namur (3ème partie) : Butler Pennsylvanie, 2024
- Parentèle Besancenot, 2024
- Parentèle Mazingarbe, 2024
- Parentèle Brisbart, 2024
- Parentèle de Namur (4ème partie) : politique (bis), 2024
- Parentèle de Namur (5ème partie) : « House of Cards », 2024
- Parentèle de Namur (6ème partie) : sport, 2024

УДК 929.5
ББК 63.2
А 51

Алпысбес М.А.

А 51 Шежире казахов: источники и традиции. (Учебник для вузовских и послевузовских спецкурсов). – Астана, ИП «BG-Print», 2013. – 240 с.

ISBN 978-601-7376-05-5

Задача данной книги – донести до читателя отдельные итоги изучения шежире
казахов, исследуемое автором в качестве генеалогической памяти и исторического источника, как культурной традиции и самобытной формы историознания казахского народа.
Материалы шежире содержат в себе сведения о генеалогии в виде рассказов,
списков, схем, которые дают информацию о характере системы родства и свойства народа, родоплеменных и субэтнических группах, а также о известных исторических личностях вкупе с родословными элитарной части казахского общества – торе, ходжей.
В трудах дореволюционных авторов шежире представлена как совокупность
историко-генеалогических материалов и использовалась в целях изучения обычного права, родового быта и этнического состава населения степи.
Книга рассчитана на преподавателей, научных работников, историков, филологов, философов, этнографов, краеведов, а также на всех интересующихся проблемами развития устных знаний, исторической традиции и вопросами генеалогии.

Рецензенты:
Абусеитова М.Х., д.и.н., профессор
Кумеков Б.Е., д.и.н. РК, профессор, академик НАН РК

Modern genetic genealogy conventional approaches to reconstructing the phylogeny of agnatic (male-line) ancestors for a group of Y-DNA-tested men have traditionally used either Y-STR or Y-SNP data only. This creates an occasional dilemma over which analysis-Y-STR or Y-SNP-more accurately reflects the phylogenetic tree of the group; an unnecessary dilemma since both sets of data are products of the same historical agnatic lines of descent and should therefore be complementary. Y-STRs and Y-SNPs also each have different strengths which can be used in concert to partially offset their separate weaknesses. An approach is presented that weighs phenetic and cladistic data characteristics from the available sources of data (Y-STR and Y-SNP) as well as from traditional genealogy information according to likelihood to reconstruct an agnatic phylogenetic tree which reaches 100% accuracy at maximum data availability while exploiting the strengths of each available data source. This approach has also been made publicly available as the free online software program Still Another Phylogeny Program (SAPP at http://www.jdvtools.com/SAPP).

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Türk tarihinin yetiştirdiği dünyâca ünlü ilim ve fikir adamlarından biri olan Mehmed Fuad Köprülü (1890-1966), özellikle Osmanlı tarihinin kuruluş devri hakkındaki tartışmaların iyice alevlendiği bir dönemde en zorlu tartışmalara eğilerek, ortaya koyduğu keskin ve iddiâlı tezlerle bir döneme damgasını vuran en önemli isimlerden biri olmuştur. Onun bu tezlerinin en meşhur olanları; Wittek'in Kayı menşei ile ilgili itirazlarına yönelik güçlü savunması ve Osmanlılar'ın atalarının Anadolu'ya göçünün -bilinenin aksine- Cengiz istilâsı sırasında değil, Anadolu'nun ilk fethi sırasında gerçekleştiği yönündeki iddiâsıdır. Bu iki konu Köprülü'nün ölümünden sonra da uzun yıllar tartışılmış; ancak her ikisi hakkında da çağdaş kaynaklar ışığında kalıcı bir çözüme ulaşılamamıştır.

Bu makale, hâlâ üzerinde tartışılan bu iki konu hakkında, şimdiye kadar devrin aslî kaynaklarına bakılmaksızın geliştirilen yüzeysel ve şahsî düşüncelere dayalı tezlerin aksine, ilk kez dönemin İslâm kaynakları ve Bizans kroniklerindeki kayıtları Osmanlı rivâyetleriyle karşılaştıran bir tez ortaya koyarak, ikisi hakkında da kesin ve kalıcı bir çözüme ulaşmak amacıyla kaleme alınmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Osmanlı Kuruluş devri, göç ve yerleşim, Cengiz Han istilâsı, Anadolu’nun fethi.


Abstract

Mehmed Fuad Köprülü (1890-1966) who is one of the worldwide known scientists and intellectuals raised by Turkish history, was one of the most important names who left his mark on an era by giving thoughts on the most difficult discussions and putting forward sharp and assertive hypothesis in an environment where the debates about Ottoman Empire’s establishment period had escalated. His most famous hypotheses in this regard were; his strong defense against Wittek’s objections towards origins of Kayı and his claim that migration of Ottomans’ ancestors to Anatolia took place during the first conquest of Anatolia and -contrary to general belief- not in the course of Cenghis invasion. These two issues have been discussed for a long time even after Köprülü’s death, but no permanent conclusion was able drawn in the light of contemporary sources for neither of them.

This article is written to put forward a hypothesis which for the first time compares Islamic sources and records in Byzantine chronicles to Ottoman narratives contrary to the superficial and personal opinion based claims that were raised without going through main sources of the time and to reach a precise and permanent conclusion for both of the two issues which are still being debated over.

Keywords: Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Ottoman Establishment Period, Migration and Settlement, Cenghis Khan’s Invasion, Conquest of Anatolia.

If you are a Jewish genealogist, chances are you have encountered the dreaded brick wall – the seemingly impenetrable barrier beyond which lie untold generations of unknown ancestors who represent a proud Jewish heritage that has become shrouded in mystery.

As Jewish genealogical researchers, we wondered what it would be like if we tried to surmount some of these brick walls.  Could it be done, and if so, how?  We decided to embark on such a research project by focusing on fifteen "Mystery Families" who all shared one thing in common – they all claimed descent from Yehuda Leib of Shpola, better known as the Shpoler Zeida, a revered 18th-century tzaddik and early Chassidic leader in the Russian Empire.

The traditional genealogical research methods employed, combined with modern genetic genealogy techniques, and the many lessons learned through the research of these fifteen mystery families, representing hundreds of Jewish surnames and lines of descent, are universal in nature and have widespread applicability to Jewish genealogy. For this reason, we are making this invaluable information available to the wider Jewish genealogical community.

Since the birth of scientific genealogy (the 18-19th century), its amateur type has been developing simultaneously. In the Polish territories, the latter had been mainly the occupation of the gentry until 1989, when the descendants of bourgeois and peasant families became interested in their roots on a larger scale.
Amateur genealogy in Cieszyn Silesia has developed in a different way. At least since the interwar period, family roots have been the subject of interest for descendants of peasantry (among others: Jan Wantuła, Jan Stonawski, Andrzej Żurek), both Catholics and Protestants.
In the reconstruction of their genealogies, they usually relied on family documents and made archival research in birth registers. Quite frequently, family reunions triggered the genealogical search (the Michejda, Guzior, Skrzypek Family). Amateur genealogists wanted to get acquainted with real vicissitudes of their ancestors, for example – they did not want to attribute noble origin to themselves against the facts.
These vicissitudes of families “from here” comprise the history of Cieszyn Silesia, with its religious, ethnic and national specificity. Amateur genealogical search can confirm or consolidate the Cieszyn Silesia identity, which is omitted in narrow approaches to the history of  Poland and the Czech Republic.

История дворянского рода Донауровых, пришедшего в Россию в первой половине XVIII в. из Грузии и оставившего заметный след в истории своей новой родины. В книге рассказывается не только о представителях семейства Донауровых, но также об их окружении, родственных связях и в целом о дворянском обществе на протяжении почти двух столетий.
Содержание основано на многочисленных исторических источниках, архивных материалах и воспоминаниях потомков Донауровых.

This article is about the challenges involved in researching Irish ancestry (e.g., widespread destruction of genealogical records, limited online access to existing parish records in both America and Ireland, lack of well-documented family trees, common surnames), are very similar to the challenges involved in researching Jewish ancestry.

In researching Irish ancestry, the importance of collaborating with family members, genetic matches, genealogical organizations, and other genealogists and family researchers, cannot be overstated.  In keeping with this, I invite all interested readers to share your thoughts, comments, and suggestions for researching Irish ancestry with the author.

RESUMEN

Los descendientes de don Martín Monje, conquistador, crearon otros apellidos. Se continúa, en este trabajo, con los antecedentes del documento LOS CORONA DE AUTLÁN: SUS ORÍGENES y DESCENDIENTES DE MARTIN MONJE.  Trataremos, en este reporte, a los descendientes de Juan Fernández Nieto y Cathalina Fernández Corona, generaciones 5 y 6. Desde aquí continúan los linajes Corona de Autlán y el linaje de los Padilla de Ávila.

Salidos en éxodo, como los conquistadores, desde diversas regiones hispánicas, se afincaron en las tierras de esta zona de México, el sur de Jalisco y Colima, colonizando sus invasiones y emprendiendo una diáspora a diversas otras regiones del territorio de México, Pueblos de Martín Monje, Tenamaxtlán en la Nueva Galicia, Guadalajara, Acatlán y la Villa de Santa María de Lagos o a los Estados Unidos. Notable es su presencia en el quehacer cotidiano en el hogar, la agricultura, la ganadería, la minería, el comercio, oficiales reales o eclesiásticos, en las artes, las ciencias o en los oficios .

RESUMEN Los descendientes de don Martín Monje, conquistador, crearon otros apellidos. Se continúa en este trabajo con los antecedentes del documento LOS CORONA DE AUTLÁN: SUS ORÍGENES. En efecto, uno de sus hijos, Martín II 3 Monje de León Corona, homónimo de su padre (segundo de nombre) y su hermana Beatriz Álvarez, sus descendientes y conexiones con los conquistadores Francisco de Figueroa, Alonso Contreras y Figueroa y con Diego Porres de Baranda que trataremos en este reporte. Salidos en éxodo como los conquistadores, desde diversas regiones hispánicas, se afincaron en las tierras de esta zona de México, el sur de Jalisco y Colima, colonizando sus invasiones y emprendiendo una diáspora a diversas otras regiones del territorio de México (Pueblos de Martín Monje, Nueva Galicia, Guadalajara, Zacatecas y Michoacán) o a los Estados Unidos. Notable es su presencia en el quehacer cotidiano en el hogar, la agricultura, la ganadería, la minería, el comercio, oficiales reales o eclesiásticos, en las artes, las ciencias o en los oficios 1. Conquistador MARTÍN 2 MONJE DE LÉON e ISABEL ÁLVAREZ CORONA, 1 Este artículo está basado en las investigaciones realizadas por la autora y Arturo Ville Corona. La compilación de la autora será parte de la obra "El ayer y hoy de dos familias de fundadores. Las familias CORONA y MICHEL" en preparación. Se agradece la colaboración prestada en especial al Lic. Pedro Franco López Heredia, historiador, investigador, bibliógrafo y genealogista, por su valiosa información que a través de los años amablemente nos compartió para el estudio de nuestras raíces, por lo que estamos muy agradecidos.

Lista (incompleta) de descendientes de Celso Ossa Tobón, quien vivió en Santuario, Departamento de Risaralda, Colombia. La mayor parte de los datos fueron tomados de los apuntes de Inés Uribe Ossa. Puede contener datos inexactos o imprecisos.

What is it about Jewish genealogy that makes it so challenging and difficult?  Why do so few Ashkenazi Jews have family trees and paper trails?  Are autosomal DNA and Y-DNA tests as useful for tracing Jewish ancestry as for other groups?

As someone who has been successful at tracing his family’s Jewish ancestry back to the Middle Ages, and has conducted numerous Y-DNA studies of rabbinical lineages, while encountering his share of genealogical challenges along the way, I thought that it would be useful to share some of my experiences and insights regarding these very important questions.

In this article, the main factors that are responsible for making Jewish genealogy so challenging are divided into ten main categories: (1) the destruction of Jewish records; (2) the difficulty in finding surviving Jewish documents; (3) language barriers; (4) the history of Jewish surname adoption; (5) the nature of the Jewish surname adoption process; (6) the Americanization of Jewish surnames; (7) Jewish endogamy; (8) the historical lack of family trees and paper trails; (9) the Holocaust; and (10) the Jewish immigrant experience in America.

It is only by fully understanding the challenges, problems, and difficulties faced by Jewish genealogists that effective strategies can be devised to deal with these issues and to find solutions.

Borderlands and frontiers impact identity, culture, and social organization. As such, most studies of 18th and 19th century California emphasize the role of the Franciscan missionaries, soldiers,
and other settlers in their colonization of the Spanish frontier and the subsequent transformative impacts to Native Californians. By contrast, mainstream scholarship that thoroughly examines gender and sexual politics of Alta California is still adequately underrepresented.
Spanish-Mexican women, like their male counterparts, were critical participants in the colonization process and contributed to the development of Alta California’s colonial landscape. A microscale analysis of successive generations of women from one Spanish California’s earliest settler families, the Arballo lineage, provides a nuanced examination of colonial women on the frontier. The women central to this paper include: Feliciana Arballo, María Ignacia Lόpez, and
sisters Josefa and Ramona Carrillo. Specifically, this paper interrogates how these women acted both as partners and individual agents within the colonization process.

I am posting the Preface from our forthcoming book: "The Shpoler Zeida -- The Life Legends and Descendants of the Grandfather of Shpola."  We invite all interested readers, especially descendants of the Shpoler Zeida, to contact us with any questions that you might have about the Shpoler Zeida's family tree, or about the book itself.

For some time now I have been busy trying to tell the world the truth about religion. I have even said that the people responsible for the world's more pervasive religions were my own royal ancestors. And this is true. I have tried to inform as many people as I can to what they did and why they did it, and to help people to understand this step-by-step. It is my responsibility to do my best to undo the harm that my ancestors did to the world. And so, there is no choice for me but to continue until everyone is informed of this and finally accepts the truth about religion. This is not the easiest thing for me to say or talk about, but it is true that some of my ancestors were indeed psychopaths. Also, there are some of my relatives who know that I have been telling the world about this, but who would rather I not do so. I know the damage that the lies and twisted ideologies have caused and will continue to cause if left unchecked. This is now about the survival of the human race and our planet. The result of what my ancestors did is that the world is now a place in which psychopaths run free, occupy positions of authority and remain in a position to control and manipulate the populace. And if humanity is to survive, it cannot continue to be left in the hands of psychopaths. My royal ancestors had already known how to rule and control the masses when they began to create the three main religions of the world. This is because they had been ruling over dynasties even before dynasties were formally known as such. And that was long before the person known to the world as 'Adam' had existed. Those earliest 'dynasties' are called by archaeologists by the term "proto-dynasties". These ancestors of mine established the first dynasty in Egypt. It wasn't until the 12th dynasty that the pharaoh Amenemhept I (aka Adam-en-em-hept I, etc.) began to create the religion that would later become known as Judaism. He was the founder of the 12th dynasty, but he was also creating another dynasty parallel to that one which was known to his family and descendants as the "biblical dynasty". This pharaoh had envisioned the way that he wanted his religion to be and left instructions for its further creation and establishment to his descendants. He had created the first part of the story of Genesis and borrowed from some from already known religions for some of the other portions of his religion.* This religion, was only a part of what he had envisioned to do. He needed to continue to rule over Egypt and so, he had assistance from his sons to create his then new religion-a monotheistic religion. In it, he, the pharaoh was the god and played the part of God. He also played the part of Adam. He, like many of the ancient rulers played around with words. He placed 'Adam' in a wonderful place which was called the "garden of Eden". It was a play on the letters that were used, it was actually, the "garden of Aten". That, was a royal garden belonging to the pharaoh himself. And the name 'Adam' was already a name by which this pharaoh was known. Other information about this pharaoh and the story of Genesis and others will be made known; but at this time, I am giving an overview of what these ancient royals did. The Pharaoh's son Seth stayed with him in Egypt and ruled there with him and then also after he died. Another of his sons, known as 'Cain' went to another land to establish followers for the new religion with his brother's son Enosh. Cain had a son of his own whom he named after his brother's son who was helping him, Enoch. And Seth while ruling in Egypt was known as Sesostris, his Egyptian name. His son Enosh, had a son, and he named him after his uncle, calling him Kenan (Cainan). It was Cain and his descendants who established the people known as Cainanites. In the line of descent from Adam, Seth's wife is unnamed. But knowing that Seth as actually the Pharaoh Sesostris I, we then know that his wife was his sister or half-sister Neferu III. But to have given her name in the Bible would have

This is from a paper which I had written some time ago. The basis for discovering and confirming this is the work of Sir Ronald Syme; particularly, his paper titled 'Domitius Corbulo' (JRS, 1970-71). The subject of which is quite informative. We find, for instance, that (Sextilia) Vistilia was the common (or mutual) ancestor of many illustrious Roman families. Now, the original paper/s of Syme did not go into the detail that will be found in my family tree charts. This is partly because his work stopped short of going a few generations further, and because he was not publishing conclusions based upon the use of alias or alternate names in ancient history.