Tracing your Ancestry to Adam

You can put me in that list.

I am a documented descendant of the Plantagenet Kings of England.

I guess I can finally prove I am from Adam.

Where else?

 

Naw, I can trace my ancestry on my father's side to the peasants of England. Nevertheless, I'm sure Adam is back there, in the beginning, along with Eve even if we've lost track of who was there in between.

 

>>>>>>>Her ancestry can be traced back along the Scottish royal line, then the Irish, then the Milesian settlers who are descended from Magog the grandson of Noah. At this point we are into Biblical history and we can trace it back to Adam.<<<<<<<

hmmm.. I wouldn't bet much on it. Tough thing to prove, I suspect.

 

You people leave my fantasies alone!!!

And here for a while I thought I had more Adam-blood in me than the rest of you.

Come to think of it, that might not be such a good thing.

 

"I tried tracing my ancestry, but all records were lost in the flood..."

Or the other old line..

"I spent $10,000 researching my family tree, and spent $100,000 covering it all up again..."

 

There are lots of inconsistencies in the Irish history, but this is the one thing that all the historians are agreed about, that the Irish are descended from Magog, so it must have been something important to them.

Mike </font>[/QUOTE]Been doing a lot of research on early Irish history and have not yet come across this "fact." Can you give me a source to help in my research please?

 

Mike,

I took a quick look at some of the sources that you mentioned. Some of them look more of the quality of comic books rather than real history. Let me suggest that there is a tremendous gap in the suggested ancestral lines in that there simply was no recorded history prior to about 5,000 years ago and very little since about the time of Christ. In England there is an author who has learned a great deal about ancient peoples through studies of DNA. He is Bryan Sykes and has a DNA laboratory called Oxford Ancestors. According to Dr. Sykes, at least one ancient Englishman, who lived about 10,000 years ago, has the same DNA as some modern day residents of England. Therefore there is a substantial gap of a few thousand years for which there was a population in England but for which there are no written records. I think that this casts great doubt on the claim that there is general agreement on this issue.

The type of books that you refer to are not history books as far as I can see, and not written by established historians with the exception of Josephus who is of course a well known, if ancient, historian.

 

Mike,

Your claim was "all historians." I have many cources which claim contrary about the history of the Irish.

 

So do you contend that the Irish and the Russians have a common ancestry through Magog?

 

Historically, the people whe gave Russia its name were of Scandinavian origin---Vikings sailed up the Volga river and conquered the Slavic people living there...the area was renamed rus (red) for them, but they adopted the language of the local Slavs.
Archeological evidence is strong that the Irish are descended from early Celtic people originating in central and western Europe. While both Scandinavian and Slavic peoples may be thought of as from the north, the Irish aren't.