This means that you will find some charts (like Marie of Swabia) which seem to go on forever until you go to the next charts. Other charts ("like William "The Conqueror's") only include the parents & children before they go onto the next chart. This novel method led to the least amount of chart overlap and makes sense the more you use it.

You will find the occasional rogue chart (especially at lower levels) which goes from single child to single child, but those are mainly due of exasperation on my part when a chart went on a bit too long before leading to a multiple lineage family chart or because I later found a branch that had been missed the first time around. go to top

In addition, royalty was required to marry royalty and so "keep the lines pure". On the one hand, this means that stumbling onto minor royalty usually paves the way back to the 300s C.E. On the other hand, it means that one must untangle the incredible intermarriages of all the lines and families. More amazing, members of those families would have known and understood these lines by heart! An astounding feat to modern genealogists... go to top

Then, during my readings on European Royalty, I found the answer...repeatedly. Pre-Christian Kings needed to prove their right to be King came directly from the Gods & Goddesses. The easiest way to prove that was to show that you were descended from them. Thus, they charged their genealogical chroniclers with proving such genealogical "proof" under pain of...well, you can well imagine the wrath of a thwarted medieval monarch.

When monks took over the duties of Pagan scribes, the lines now led to Adam instead of the Pagan Gods & Goddesses native to the countries. But the intent -- and the dubious scholarship & forgeries -- were the same. This is why these lines do not appear here. If someone can point me to documented, credible scholarship taking these lines to [Milesius, Odin, Tuatha de Danaan, Adam, etc.], I will add the people to the lines with the proper citation. "Telephone" does not count!!!

Until then, such lines are fictitious. So sorry. People want these lines to be true as much as they wish to find a Mayflower or famous ancestor. I feel & understand the disappointment when they are not true, but we cannot do credible genealogy from the whims of medieval monarchs in need of divine rights. go to top