Geia sas,
On Sunday November 7th i had an amazing discovery about my family.
We have always had questions about our ancestors before my great-grandparents and there aren't many people alive to answer those questions so we never thought we'd know much more than we did. But we decided to join ancestry.com none-the-less. So as we began to add family to our tree we received hints & were able to take it quite far back through my maternal grandpa. We kept searching until we started getting into royalty & nobles, i had a small suspicion as we were finding things out since the records were so good for so long ago.
The more digging we did the more we found out that through multiple grandparents of my grandfather he had royal blood, amazed as we were. He didn't know much about his family and he wasn't born into wealth by any means.
I encourage all of you to check out your family history, i think its so interesting!
On that note
Καλή Χρόνια!
Kali Xronia!
Happy New Year!
edit:
i just remembered this post, i feel like i'm qualified to make the choice now lol!
We have always had questions about our ancestors before my great-grandparents and there aren't many people alive to answer those questions so we never thought we'd know much more than we did. But we decided to join ancestry.com none-the-less. So as we began to add family to our tree we received hints & were able to take it quite far back through my maternal grandpa. We kept searching until we started getting into royalty & nobles, i had a small suspicion as we were finding things out since the records were so good for so long ago.
The more digging we did the more we found out that through multiple grandparents of my grandfather he had royal blood, amazed as we were. He didn't know much about his family and he wasn't born into wealth by any means.
We found out that my grandpa was not only Greek, but had Spanish, & even a little Armenian & Egyptian. Some of the names included Isaakios Komnenos Emperor of Byzantium (27th gr.grandfather) & of course his parents and their royal families.
There were various other European royalties throughout the tree as well such as García Ramírez King of Navarre (Spain) (28th gr.grandfather), Philippe III the Bold Capet (France) (was Spanish/French mixed ancestry)
There were various other European royalties throughout the tree as well such as García Ramírez King of Navarre (Spain) (28th gr.grandfather), Philippe III the Bold Capet (France) (was Spanish/French mixed ancestry)
wife Isabella of Aragon(Spain) Queen of France (Greek, Spanish, Hungarian mixed ancestry).
By far the most exciting for me was the discovery that as far as can be told by the information discovered i am the 68th great granddaughter of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator Queen of Egypt. I have always loved ancient Egyptian things & now i know why! I am descendant from her twice that i've found so far the closest is 68th so far the other is 72nd i believe.(through her daughter Cleopatra Selini both of the times). A few people are in there more than once.
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| Cartouche of Cleopatra |
It has been an amazing discovery that continues to go on, i just wish we could find out more about my maternal grandmother's family because we don't know much more than where they were from in Greece & that they had an orchard there. That will take traveling to Greece to find out more about, which i will be more than happy to do if the money would fall in my lap lol. But it definitely amazing to find this out i wish my grandpa was still alive to tell him, he would have just laughed & been amazed.
Most people have at least one or two royals in their family somewhere they say, its pretty cool to find as many as we did from more than one grandparent though. And for all i have learned there is still so much more i want to know! I encourage all of you to check out your family history, i think its so interesting!
On that note
Καλή Χρόνια!
Kali Xronia!
Happy New Year!
edit:
i just remembered this post, i feel like i'm qualified to make the choice now lol!
