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Originally posted by Wise Man
None of the Presidents are related to anyone of Royalty before the Renaissance (1400's) through the fathers side (the only side that counts.)
It started as an assigned to research her own lineage. She started with George Washington but unlike other professional genealogists that only looked at the male family lines, Brigann was able to link the presidents together using both male and female ancestry. Before this, historians were only able to link 22 family trees.
Originally posted by PatriotsPride
I found this video today and wanted to share it with ATS,I thought that it would spark some great conversation!!! I think that it is amazing this young girl discovered this link between the presidents,makes me wonder how we managed to keep voting for the same bloodline all of these years...I will be looking forward to your feedback on this...Thanks
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Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
I'd like to know why this statement is always taken as truth (the part about the fathers side being the only side that counts). Is it tradition only or is there a real reason? Is this just what you've been taught?
Edit: Additionally, in defense of the video, they do state that
It started as an assigned to research her own lineage. She started with George Washington but unlike other professional genealogists that only looked at the male family lines, Brigann was able to link the presidents together using both male and female ancestry. Before this, historians were only able to link 22 family trees.
Why do genealogists only look at the male side? Seems like they're (you're) only doing half the research to me.
Originally posted by Lemon.Fresh
Wrong.
Matthew 1 includes 4 women in the genealogy of Christ.
Also look at Genesis 11:29, Genesis 22:20-24, and 1 Chronicles 2:18-21 and 24.
Deuteronomy 7 says that any child born to a Jewish mother and non-jewish father is considered Jewish. The opposite does not apply.
It is not common, but there is precedent, going all the way back to the Torah.
It is also scientifically feasible using mtDNA.
Do some research before you decide to go on an anti-jewish tirade.
Do you even know what genealogy means?
The root meaning of the word gene is seed or sperm, coming from the Greek.
(seed means sperm in Greek go look it up.)
Only men have sperm, they carry the seed, also known as the Y chromosome which carries everyone's tribal heritage.
This is how bloodlines are dealt with in the Bible, through out history, plants, and science ect.
It's only the men that matter when it comes to race, there is no such thing as a half breed. Skin color, land and physical appearance do not determine someones race.
Race refers to the classification of humans into populations or groups based on various factors such as culture, language, social practice or heritable characteristics.[1]
Conceptions and groupings of races vary over time and reflect societal customs [2][3][4] in defining essential types of individuals based on perceived sets of traits.
As a biological term, race describes genetically divergent populations of humans that can be marked by common phenotypic and genotypic traits.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] This sense of race is often used in forensic anthropology analyzing skeletal remains, biomedical research, and race-based medicine.[13][14][15][16].
Race, however, has no official biological taxonomic significance — all humans belong to the same hominid subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens[17][18]. Nor is there scientific basis for any racial or ethnic hierarchy[19][20].
The study of shared traits among peoples is also conducted along ethnic lines, involving the endogamic history of groups.
Genealogy (from Greek: γενεά, genea, "generation"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives.
The pursuit of family history tends to be shaped by several motivations, including the desire to carve out a place for one's family in the larger historical picture, a sense of responsibility to preserve the past for future generations, and a sense of self-satisfaction in accurate storytelling.[1]
Some scholars[who?] differentiate between genealogy and family history, limiting genealogy to an account of kinship, while using "family history" to denote the provision of additional details about lives and historical context.
Did you seriously just compare genealogy to a family tree?