Ancestors
of my children
I have so far found 9,170 direct ancestors of my
children, Daniel and Lalou. In this family tree you can
click your way almost 3,500 years back to pharaohs and
high priests in Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. Click
on the last names on each page to move back in history
and on the 1st to move forward.
Daniel and Lalou's great Internet
Family Tree.
Family index
Or click your way through Daniel
and Lalou's 3,182 Scandinavian ancestors
made on a betaversion of the new fantastic WinFamily 6.
For a listing of most of our worldwide family members -
with dates and locations of their births and deaths -
look at Daniel and
Lalou's Ancestor Report.
Royal lines
For genealogists these are the easiest to research. Yet
they can be quite interesting - enabling you to get way
back in time and forcing you to take a closer look at
what you learned - or more often - didn't learn in
school.
Daniel and Lalou have so far 987 kings, 98 pharaohs, 115
emperors and 11 Grand Dukes as direct great-grand
fathers. Here are how they are related to some of them.
(Most I found after I made these web pages in 1997 just
as many minor faults have since been corrected). By
clicking on their blue names you jump right to their blue
blood lines in our family tree where you can see how
exactly they are related to our family today - and
perhaps to your own family......
Emperors of the Roman, Holy
Roman and Byzantine Empires
11 emperors and 9 empresses and princesses
Pharaohs and High
Priests of Ancient Egypt
40 pharaohs, 4 high priests and 18 queens and
princesses
Royalty of Judea,
Israel, Mitanni and the Hittites
12 kings and 3 queens and princesses
Royalty in Ancient
Greater Persia
34 kings and 11 queens and princesses
Grand Dukes and Czars of
Russia and Novgorod
11 grand dukes and 8 princes and princesses
Danish Royalty
11 kings, 4 queens and 6 princes and princesses
Early Swedish Royalty
18 kings, 7 queens and 11 princes and princesses
Early Norwegian Royalty
7 kings, 3 queens and 2 princes and princesses
Early English and Irish
Royalty
15 kings, 6 queens and 3 princesses
Royalty of Burgund, Brittany
and the Franks
33 kings, 7 queens and 3 princes and princesses
Hungarian, Polish and other
Royalty
28 kings, 3 queens and 19 princes and princesses
Armenian and Iberian
(Georgian) Royalty
37 kings and 5 queens and princesses
Distinguished citizens of
Ancient Rome
37 ancestors - among them Julius Caesar and Mark
Anthony
Four distinguished
Americans
To amuze my many American friends I include my
family's relationship to 4 famous Americans:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Rosevelt
and .......well..... Walt Disney!
Distinguished Danish
and Norwegian writers
This is only of interest to Danes and
Norwegians: - how my children are related to 35 of our
greatest writers and heroes such as N.F.S. Grundtvig,
Steen Steensen Blicher, Sigrid Undset,
"Tordenskjold" etc.
Royalty and Gods in
Greek and Roman Mythology
3 Gods, 7 kings and several heroes from Homer's
"The Illiad" whom our historical ancestors
claim to descend from
Noble lines
Behind the many royal lines there is naturally even more
nobility. When researching Swedish ancestors around year
1500 I found to my astonishment that 11 of them had died
on the same day. When I realized they were executed by
Danish King Christian II in the Stockholm blood bath I
discovered their nobility and traced their lines back to
early Swedish kings. Almost 3,000 individuals in our
family tree are now Scandinavian nobility from 1000-1500.
You can find them in the ancestor
index under capitalized names such as
STURE, TROLLE, GYLDENSTIERNA, OXENSTIERNA etc.
Peasant lines
These were the most challenging since I had to dig up
everything myself in church books, land records etc. with
many trips to Danish and Norwegian State Archives. On the
Norwegian side I have traced two branches back almost to
year 1500 and actually found my children's live 12th
grand cousins - still working with their cows on a
mountain slope near Voss - 500 years after we
"lost" close touch with each other. It was a
wonderful family reunion!
The oldest peasant I have been able to find in Denmark
is Grumme from 1390. He lived 10 miles from where I grew
up and was quite a rebel. He was severely punished for
rebelling against Queen Margrethe I.
We hope our present Queen Margrethe II doesn't hold that
against our family. She is my children's 24th grand
cousin, but unfortunately she doesn't know it!
Presently I have only written about Grumme and other
interesting family members in Danish. So this genealogy
home page is still under construction!
To exchange genealogical information please contact
me: Jacob
Holdt@american-pictures.com
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