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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9762151" data-attributes="member: 6701124">The hard part is finding a vaguely trustworthy paper trail make the connection. In the US or northern or western Europe it seems like even if  you can get back to the 1600s* it's like they appeared ex nihilo, sometimes with a penumbra of later speculative genealogies unsupported enough to make an LLM blush.  For my wife we got solidly to one that was appointed a governor by the Lords Proprietor and had decent records going back.If it wasn't illegal (if not immoral) it would be fun to see if there was a way to reconstitute the old DNA in graves into saliva and send it off to Ancestry or the like.  I wonder how many in a row going back you could submit before some automatic flag kicked in and they realized they were getting stuff from long dead folks.Mine are all Finland and Germany**, so no British royalty for me.* I mean, I'm not complaining about the cases I can trace back that far!** All the records on Matricula for the German Catholic records, and the Finnish historical society for theirs make it relatively depressing when trying to do early US ones.</blockquote>