George Stevenson looks like he's the type to run around with electrocharged suits shopping around for mechanical arachnid schematics and parts :D

That message at the end, the reason why you wanted to talk about this, that was.. a powerful message. I'll bet in a few months or years, or decades from now, you have no idea how many lives you would have changed, Tim.

Love these backstory videos not just about programming. Cant wait to hear more about the Fallout book. Thanks Tim.

All this family history is even more amazing when you think about how Tim's family literally could never have imagined his career and life work. In just one generation the technology completely changed and allowed for this new art form to emerge, it's really incredible.

Fascinating. Genealogy is so underappreciated in our time, but it feels great to honor our ancestors and have a solid sense of the roots and cultures from which we sprang. It's funny to me how some, if not most, will jump through rather questionable hoops to try and tie their family trees back to European royalty, especially, so kudos for avoiding the temptation. I'm sure your hard-working ancestors would be pleased to know their own hardships and sacrifices were not in vain. Those in my family who first set foot on North American shores were uncerimoniously shipped here as an unindentured servant aboard the Elizabeth and Ann long before the US ever became a nation and were fleeing the Irish famine in the 19th century, respectively. They also mingled with the indigenous Cherokee of Appalachia who were essentially in the same boat. Just knowing that and hearing the stories of my ancestors from grandparents shaped my whole outlook on life as they and their descendents never knew privelege, of course. So many of us seem to have forgotten what our own ancestors went through both in their ancestral homelands and upon arriving in the US, so it's little wonder we're suffering from an "empathy deficit" today.

Interesting fact. They never changed names at Ellis Island. There could be rare cases of misspelling or the immigrant being illiterate, but most of the time the changes in last name was done by the immigrant to integrate better

That's really interesting! I really like seeing old photos like that and trying to imagine what those people would think about on a day to day basis. They had such a different context to the world compared to us, it's fun to try and put yourself in their shoes and imagine what the world would be like. I also agree with you completely. I think people tend to "decide" that they're too busy, rather than actually being too busy. If you don't have enough time in the day, maybe wake up a bit earlier and go to bed a bit later. If you want to do something, you can find a way - you just have to accept that there will be sacrifices to make it happen.

This is the toughest lesson for some people to learn.

My uncle is currently on a similar project, hunting down any information as far as he can about our family. A great resource to him has been church census books - and I mean really old paper books - as all the births deaths and marriages used to be recorded by them before separation of church and state. They are incredibly detailed and go back hundreds of years it's kind of crazy!

Nice, i got into geneaology myself during covid, and have been working on it intermittently. I've found a lot i didn't know about my family( petty sessions court records and newspaper articles have been quite helpful). It's been fun researching.

When you showed off the book you printed I was in disbelief. You’re an A+ tier human. Woah

I quit my regular job to go part time and focus more on improving on skills such as abstract art, writing, and game design. A previous colleague said "So you're leaving just to enjoy your hobbies?" and it felt so alien to me that someone would refer to these pursuits as "hobbies". I feel like a lot of people beleive that they have to work themselves ragged, and then give up on their personal ambitions every night so that they can go work again the next day. I'm also living in Japan, and have a lot of friends from home say "I wish I could do something like that..." my response is always "So do it."

Thanks for all your wholesome and thought-provoking videos, Tim! ✨

Boy, I love those old photos. It's wild what people can dig up these days. Also I like these kinds of motivational/inspirational videos. They give me that little extra push I need to work on my own projects so thank you very much.

I love this video, I wonder if there is a lot of crossover between RPG lovers and those interested in genealogy-maybe because it's another form of lore, but one you are involved in. I lost my last grandparent and I was the only one who was interested in taking all the family records and old pictures-including one of my grandparents getting in a car after the wedding, eerily similar to yours haha. This gives me the kick I need to get started putting all of it together. Also regarding your sister- "A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation." -Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles

Always take others family trees with a grain of salt. Some folks don’t do enough detective work before attaching a member into their tree. Sometimes asking if something makes sense can lead to more digging. Example: My mother was working on our tree and found an individual with very young kids when he was in his 60’s. Possible, but improbable, 200+ years ago. So she dug deeper and found John son of John that she had missed.

This story is very inspiring, no matter what profession you have. Thank you Tim

What a fun and enriching project! It's pretty amazing how it all comes together in the end. The definitive Fallout timeline sounds like a good time, too.

Tim has the scribe phenotype

In the Irish language, Cain is Ó Catháin (ō KA.hahnʸ). Cathán (modern pronunciation: KA.hahn, early medieval: KA.thahn) is the word for 'battle' or 'battalion' plus the usual male name suffix. If the name predates Old Irish, the forms Awyos Katagnī ~ Aweah Kaθaɣni (Descendent of Cain) and Katagnos ~ Kaθaɣnah (Cain) can be assumed. Btw, these ancient forms are spelled using approximate phonetic spelling, which is grossly ahistorical.

Hello Timothy. Researching your own heritage seems super cool. I would love to hear more stories about your general interests and accomplishments. Best regards!

I wish I knew more of my family history. I guess my great grandfather wasn’t the coolest guy so I never grew up knowing anything about my extended family

I'm the genealogist in my family, and one day I hope to create a book like this too. Thanks very much for sharing your work and your story! The researching is so addicting, and with DNA matches there's even more to dive into

We have pretty extensive records in Iceland compared to most other places. My grandfather had a book listing his genealogy that he got as a confirmation present. It's pretty extensive, it doesn't give much information about them besides their names and parents, though one got a story that filled a page, a few get the occasional nickname or description. It does includes some notable individuals from the sagas like Egill Skallagrímsson and Ragnar Loðbrók and various kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland and Dublin. The furthest back it gets is the Swedish kings in the 500s ending with Freyr and his father Njörður, with a footnote clarifying it's talking about the norse gods

All of my ancestors can be traced recently back to ethnically homogenous countries in europe so there's not much suprise for me. Great work on your part to make a book for everyone, that's so nice!

Love your videos and I think your family history book is way cool - it’s very selfless work and I admire that. Don’t know what apps you’ve used to do family history but familysearch is a good one (and it’s free) - it’s what I use.

George Stephenson's moustache is so captivating that I basically lost all my attention span waiting for the reveal of his name. It's more fabulous than my mane, and I'm a goddamn metalhead

I was definitely thinking, "Damn, what an inspiration for what you can get done when not having children!"

The name "Cain" would have a lot of different anglicisations. The original "Ó Catháin" got rendered as "O'Keane", "O'Kane", "O'Kain", "Cahan", "Kean", and a whole bunch of other variations.

thank you for sharing this story

My grandma was born in Cork, Ireland, too I believe. :D

Very inspiring, thanks

In 23&Me, make sure to increase the confidence interval from 50% to 90% in the chromosome painting section (available on desktop only), it's pretty useless otherwise (if you know what these mean). Your potential Native American ancestry will probably disappear when increasing certainty.

Please do put the Fallout book on sale once you're done with it!

A very fitting turn of fate that the most American game was created by a descendant of the first New Englander born on American soil.

Hi Tim Love your Channel. In relation to the amount of work programmers do we all suffer from back pain...Any recomendations for a healthier lifestyle as a programmer or anything like that?

Really inspiring!

Good message.

Wow, I didn't know Google Streetview had been around for so long! :)

Alright everyone, if time travel becomes real dont hurt any of these people or we won’t have any of Tim’s games!

Shoutout to my step dad for being one of those census workers giving us fun info lol

How one would even find all this, this is impressive

Legacy of Kain literally, then!

Genealogy is going to turn weird in a couple of generations. "Hey, Mom, look at that! I found Granpa's facebook. Aaaand... Delete."

I know the pain of having family ties to an indigenous identity that was practically erased from memory. Even sadder when you realise our very existence is the consequence of that act of erasure.

Cool

My tenth great grandfather was John Benham who came to America in the 1630’s. His son Joseph married Winifred King, and Winifred and their daughter, Winifred, were tried in the witch trials.

My Dad is actually trying to make a career out of genealogy at the moment. Out of curiosity, do you think any of your programmer skills come in handy for genealogy? Part of me wants to get my Dad into the dark arts of programming...

Hi Tim, are you Ernest Hemingway? Recently while browsing in a bookstore, I came across the famous portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Yousuf Karsh (the black and white closeup where he’s wearing a turtleneck), and for a good 10 seconds I had a memory lapse, convinced I was staring at a picture of you, looking all contemplative, from some alternate history where you were a famous literary author instead of the game creator you are in reality. I’ve seen this picture hundreds of times in the past, but this is the first time I came across it again since having started watching your videos regularly. Now that I see you in this video and compare it to the photograph, it’s honestly shocking to me how much you look alike. What’s the deal then, are you Ernest Hemingway, or is he your relative (and why isn’t he in your family history book that you discuss in this video)?

Sorry for stupid question, but i really want to hear your opinion on Raffaello truffles, I know it's not chocolate, still hoped to find it on your blog

Tim you didn't have to make a video to explain to me I'm lazy

Dear, Tim Cain, how do you feel about actual priests and icons in Brotherhood of Steel? ( Amazon series related)

DNA ancestry results are imperfect. Sometimes it returns false positives. So especially if the Native American was a small amount, that's all it might have been.

Interesting, i would never suspect you of having interest in heritage.

I only really know my grandfather's family tree past my grandparents' generation, and that one is super boring, they're all just a bunch of farmers since at least the 1700s up to my great-grandfather, except for two which were butchers/executioners (in rural parts of the country I'm from it was common for one person to do both since executions were so rare it didn't make sense for someone to do that as a dedicated job)

yey

Most of my family was also farmers in Ohio, maybe we have some ancestors that were best buds 😂

When will the Fallout-book be out?

Are the French side millot or millet? Have some of the same and Dubois (although it’s the most common historical French surname). Anyway sorry to be a pedant but it’s pronounced me-lo, the t is silent

Mr. TIMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll make time for watching the all new Fallout show, I promise. :)

The reason all your ancestors ended up in Ohio is survivorship bias. In order for them to become your ancestors they needed to gather somewhere. The people who didn't go to Ohio didn't become your ancestors.