Looks like we are distant cousins. My 16th great grandfather was King James II of Scotland

My husband found his birth parents’ family on AncestryDNA. He always knew he was adopted and wasn’t really looking for them actively, but now we have relationships with so many of them and it’s amazing.

All in favor for him to press his claim to the Scotland Throne say “aye”.

Probably one of the things that made me love history myself? When I was a child, about age 7 if I recall, I was over at my Grandparent's place regularly. And snooping around in their attic I found something no one really ever talked about in the family. A box full of old journals. This wasn't too unusual as quite a few of my relatives kept journals. For example my grandmother who kept up a daily journal that was mostly related to the business of running her farm, noting key events, weather, etc. But what surprised me was finding the journals of what was my Great-Great Grandmother. Turns out she was a Sami, or Lapplander if you will. Who had been born and raised inside of Finnish territory. And it had described events that I hadn't been aware of and really opened my eyes. Including why she fled to the US. She had just become an adult, married, and was expecting a kid. And the Finnish government sent people to her village. They were demanding that the locals give up their own children to be raised in Finnish schools as what (from how she described it) could only be comparable to some of the ethnic cleansing that North American tribes faced in the likes of the Canada, trying to take children away from their families to raise them as Finnish Protestants, to destroy their culture over generations (if I remember Spanish settled Latin America had a very similar program going on at one point). She mentioned how one of her neighbors refused to give up her kid. So they shot them in cold blood and took the kid anyway. That made her realize just how bad it was going to be, and what the government there was going to force her to do. So she packed up as much as she could and fled into the night, into Sweden, then Denmark, then Germany to finally catch a boat from Germany into the US, because she had heard of the US as this shining beacon of freedom where the government couldn't and wouldn't do anything even remotely like it. As opposed to most of Europe who treated her people apparently about as good as Jews and Gypsies were treated by most of Europe... Even met her husband on that boat of hopeful immigrants, a German fellow who they had caught the fancy of each other on the ship. And this old journal barely scrawled out in English. Noting that she wrote it late in life because she wanted no one to forget. And most of my family did forget. I gather from how little anyone knew what I was talking about at the time someone just threw it in a box of her stuff when she died and kept it in storage without ever really reading it. And future generations hadn't either. And there I was, a 7 year old reading this scrawled out journal that was older than anyone still alive. Reading it at first thinking it was almost some big adventure story like you'd see on TV. Fleeing these brutal murdering thugs in the government, cross country treks to a promised land, the hardships of the Atlantic Crossing and immigration, how proud she was to assimilate into American Culture that had given her this life that she otherwise couldn't have (apparently she went from Nomadic Dirt Poor about to be shot in the face by the government who invaded their lands to decently well off land owner of a Homestead Act ranch).

I find genealogy so interesting and am glad to have found this video! One of my relatives put together a small book with information about my family (which I’d like to do my own research about to verify) dating all the way back through the 1400’s where my ancestor, Sir John Pennington, sheltered King Henry VI after the battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses and received a glass drinking bowl as thanks, which became known as the “Luck of Muncaster,” named after Muncaster Castle which still stands to this day and is owned by my ancestor’s family, and has even become a sort of tourist destination that includes haunted tours, including the likes of the ghost of the fool that inspired the word “tomfoolery.” I’m taking it with a grain of salt for now since it’s from a single book, but assuming that is my family that’s related to all that, I find it so cool!

Thank you so much for this video. During quarantine, I went hard, doing my family tree. I actually found out my 6th great grandfather was Elijah Stanton whom was one of George Washingtons bodyguards during the revolutionary War. Took part in the battle of Momouth and the crossing of the Delaware AND was taken prisoner on the HMS Jersey, contracted smallpox but survived and lived to be 94 and have 10 children.

Just a warning, bots are going round KZfaq posting a time stamp and a malicious link. Like this: [Random Timestamp] [Link] DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK. P.S Great Video! 👍

Very interesting! I've got a record of my family up to the 1520's. Turns out that my father, and his father, and his father etc were all born in the same village that i was born in. We are Dutch and a lot of our ancestors moved to the US back when we had colonies in the US Northeast (New Amsterdam etc), one of them being Claes Maertenszoon van Roosenvelt, yes the same Roosevelt as Teddy and FDR. There is a museum a few towns over dedicated to the roosevelt family.

In the LDS church I have had many opportunities to volunteer doing data entry and transcribing these census forms. It's actually a lot of fun being able to view these old documents.

So fascinating! It’s a shame that Asian records aren’t the best

All I heard was "my grandmother was born, i know this because she's alive" and I mean, man's spitting facts

I have to thank you so much for this, found out one of my 6th great grandfathers was a captain in the War of 1812.

It’s so cool seeing people be able to do this, I was born in Colombia and my mom was adopted so I’m pretty sure mines pretty limited

It’s crazy to hear you talk about Ferrybridge and Skipton, I live very close by and it’s fascinating to learn about your ancestors there!

Im actually from and live in Whitchurch Cardiff, Wales. You can imagine the surprise when such a small and unknown city is on this video. It's fascinating 🤣

Both of our families are rooted in E. KY as well. Very cool

Randomly popped up in my recommended so I watched out of curiosity. My ears perked up when you said your great-great-great-grandmother was born in Lewistown, PA which is where I was born and raised.

I love how passionate you get when talking about this. I have used ancestry for a while now and I learned about an uncle I never knew I had. He pass away before I was born and my dad just never talked about him. I was also a Civil War reenactor and did events at the Cedar Creek battlefield for 6 or 7 years when I lived in PA. Through Ancestry I learned I had an an ester who fought at the Battle of Cedar Creek and was wounded at the battle. It is so cool to find these details

Врло занимљиво. Велики сте посао урадили. Браво.

Hey, I am from the Niles area and I read in the paper last month that your uncle passed away. My condolences

I am very lucky and 6 generations of my family have lived on the same property. We know when they came to this state and we know the whole family tree until that point. Very fortunate to have a grandfather who loved learning about his family so we got to hear about it as children. I would like to know why they came here, and where they were before coming here.

Great video. I'm also a huge genealogy and history person. Such interesting topics to research together. Genealogy makes history so much more interesting. One of your noble/royal links cuts relatively close-ish to mine. I too descend from Edward III through his son Lionel and his daughter Philippa. My line links down through Henry Hotspur as well and John the 7th Lord Clifford. I descend from your ancestor's (the 8th Lord) sister Mary who married Sir Phillip Wentworth. That leads down to my gateway ancestor William Farrar who came to Jamestown (being part of the Farrar/Ferrar family who were heavily involved and invested in the Virginia Company, such as his cousin Nicholas Ferrar). My line leads down to a George Farrar who married a Judith Jefferson also my ancestor and aunt of President Thomas Jefferson. Nearly all of my lines are colonial American, with the vast majority being Southern though a couple branches leading and expanding in the North as well (being from the West I descend from people from both regions, if mostly from the South). One line immigrated from Germany the 1840s. I've been fortunate enough to trace them back to a 300-400 person village in Germany (Gerterode) and correspond with a parish there that was able to get my birth and marriage records locally that give me a further generation (primary line being the Rudloff surname). Unfortunately I dead end there but pretty hard to scour German records beyond that myself without being able to read the language (and the trail might just run cold anyways since they weren't wealth or anything, one was from a father that was a Linen weaver and another called something along the lines of a hand laborer). Still was great getting that (and lucky the parish there responded to my google translated to German request lol). Despite having many lines that intertwine there is only one incident I've found of pedigree collapse that is awkwardly close. One of my lines leads up to a bunch of Quakers (originating in Pennsylvania, a line that I shared ancestry with Richard Nixon of all people) where an ancestor married a first cousin once removed. Interestingly though my parents come from very different areas (my father was born in California with his parents born in Kansas and Arkansas, and my mother's parents all born in Texas) they both lead to the South and overlap sometimes as even neighbors I've only found one shared set of ancestors. Naturally it happened to be the same shared ancestors of that cousin marriage above, making me three times descended from their common ancestors, just those funny coincidences you find in genealogy lol. When your work load slows down I might have to see if I can hire your services to help dig through some records I can't easily get access to being in Arizona. Most of my ancestry is in the South and I've found some sources I've wanted to get my hands on but mostly only exist either in local archives in places like Georgia or in the LSD library in Salt Lake City. I've done pretty extensive genealogy over the last 10-20 years or so and though I'm no professional credit myself being pretty thorough and effective (digging through the countless thousands of pages of land deed, grants, probate records, court minutes, etc) but there are a couple brick walls that I'd be interested in hiring help on. I'm not sure if brick wall lines are something you take work for though? (Knowing that clearly the progress gained on an already researched and brick walled line will be much slower and might still not find too much). Some things are just time prohibitive and someone even more proficient like yourself might make progress where I've dead ended.

"Cause my Children can say they are descended from a Disney princess" 😂😂😂🤣

Im a descendent of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner the Grandfather and grandmother of George Washington. Also cousins with George Patton through Lawrence Washington. going through my family tree made me feel more connected with my ancestors. Also 3rd cousins with Uylsses S Grant on my dads side.

My Middle older brother was a part of the President and Vice President communication team during the Reagan Administration. He met both Ronnie and George. He even tuned in a ball game for GHW Bush a few times and they listen to baseball together.

Always great to see a video from my favorite 6th cousin through my ancestor Josiah Marcum (Josiah was the father of your something great grandfather James E. Markham.) Josiah was the father of 3 of my 5th Great grandfathers. (Ofc the connections are from marriages of 4th and 5th cousins)

My wife’s family is from Lewistown, PA!

My great great great great great great grandfather was Henry Adams, who came here to America in the early 1600s. Interestingly, his great grandson was John Adams!

Just found out I also have ancestors who lived in Tipton during the 1700s and 1800s with the surname Ralph.

Hey, really interesting video. I did some of my own family research a while ago and your video has inspired me to pick this back up again, so thank you! Point of interest- My Paternal Great Grandfather's brother, Walter (so my 2x Great Uncle? I think?), was in the same Regiment as Joseph Corden, though he was in the 2nd Battalion of the Sherwood Forresters. Sadly he was KIA Dec. 1916. Interesting to think that they may have met or even fought together.

My family has always been interested in genealogy on both sides. On one side im related to 3 people who signed the magna carta, and on the other side we recently found my grandpas birth father

Wow i was just thinking about tracing my family history and then you upload this video. Could the timing be any better.

damn i missed it, by a like 5 min video as well. Also in the UK i think we get census results published 2 years or 100 years after im not sure

I live in the town of Tredegar in South Wales, not far from Blaina and the next town over from Ebbw Vale :O

My grandfather (not sure how far back as in terms of greats) was one of the first burgesses in America. His name is on the marker in Jamestown. Samuel Jordan was his name.

My Grandma is huge into genealogy. She has been doing work with it for around 50 years. I don't know how accurate it is, there's most likely some discrepancies somewhere, but she's done so much that on one line on family search I got all the way back to 125 BC. It's amazing how much work she's done for this. She's also really big into the grave finder thing and she and my cousin spent 1 to 2 years finding a grave. I can't remember if it was for an ancestor or just a random person, but still she's incredible when it comes to this kind of stuff. Though it makes it difficult to do this kind of stuff when she's already done a lot of the work.

I feel for your wife on the Austrian Hungarian thing. My ancestor is from Konigsberg which is in modern day Kaliningrad, Russia (Russia’s Baltic territory split completely from the rest of the country). That area of land has been in Polish-Lithuanian hands, Prussian hands, and Russian hands in the last 400 years. My ancestor was German but those areas of the world for much of their history were constantly changing hands.

There are some challenges to researching family trees. There are also many great rewards. Looks like your family tree is steeped in history. Some challenges I would like to get your thoughts on. First are last names. A son's last name can be a slightly different spelling than his fathers. Second are birth dates and dates of death that may be close but don't quite match. One such person who has these differences in my family tree is an interesting character. Colonel William Claiborne who was born in England moved to Virginia Colony in 1620 and became the 1st Secretary of Virginia. The spelling of the Claiborne sir name is all over the place. Spellings include, Claiborne, Cleburn, Cleborne, Cleyburn, Cleyborn, etc . . . From my understanding is there are several possible reasons for this. There are smudgy documents, misspellings, and other reasons. Then there is the matter of his birthdate. There is 100% agreement on the date of his death. There are two dates for his date of birth. As I have learned from research, there are those in Merry Old England that did not see the birthday as we do as the day you arrived on this Earth. Instead, the date of Christening or Baptism was used by some, but not all people back then. Some may have had date of birth and a date of Baptism as you will see here I confirmed this Colonel William Claiborne is indeed my 11th Great Grand Father. His actual birth date is in dispute. Some have it as 10 August 1587 at Crayford, Kent, England while others have it as his Baptism date of 10 August 1600. Date of death is 21 March 1677 at Romancoke, New Kent, VA, USA. He may be the first colonist to take up arms against the British Crown in a dispute with the Calverts over the Island of Kent that he was founding as a trading post. He is a GGF of Liz Claiborne which makes the late fashion designer a long distant cousin, though I never got to meet her. Navigating these records and hints is tricky. I did tear down one branch of my tree because there were too many discrepancies. I would rather be as accurate as possible than to tie myself to a wagon that isn't mine.

My great grandmother was born in the same town as Audie Murphy twenty years apart

I’m a descendent of General John W Geary of the Union Army in the Civil War. He’s from a county just north of where I live in Pennsylvania

I started my Ancestry journey some 10 years ago. Adoptee. No knowledge of my father, but some info on mothers side. I was told my grandmother was a MacDonald. It turned out she is a MacKenzie traceable back to the Gairloch family. James IV STEWART is my 14th GGF. The MacKenzies and MacDonalds had there clashs. They also had arranged marriages. From memory, it was rather recent that they signed some sort of peace treaty. I found my fathers side via AncestryDNA.

My 11th great grandfather is a guy named John Wheeler who immigrated to America through the Great Migration. He connects me to presidents Garfield, Arthur, Hoover, Ford and the 2 Bushes. My 9th great grandmother is a woman named Hannah Duston who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her newborn daughter, during the Raid on Haverhill in 1697, in which 27 colonists were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenaki killed her baby during the journey to the island. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Native American family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives. My 14th great grandfather is named Robert "The Smythe" Pease, and my 11th great grandfather, another Robert Pease, founded the town of Edfield in Connecticut with his son John.

Census spelling: My GGrandfather from southern Missouri had twin sisters, Eva and Emma, who were more than once listed as Ever and Emmer on census rolls. GGrandad was Ivan, once listed as Iojban.

11:30 Fun fact: Back in the days, the yen+dollar exchange rate used to by 4 yen for 1 dollars. bear in mind, this was when the dollar was still as valuable as it is in 1939. So one yen was actually worth a lot back in the days. now compare to today. You think the dollar doesnt have any value today anymore? compare with one yen. Its mindblowing how currencies develope over time. Here in Germany, we dont really have a sense for this really, since we changed currencies soo often, while the UK , the US or Japan always sticked to their temporarily broken currencies, decided to fix them instead of getting rid of them

For me its really hard to do research on my family. All of them are from Mexico, a very small town called Jocotepec. But luckily I've found a good amount of records. Every time I do research though, I always want more haha!

I was born in nantyglo 1 mile from blaina and worked most of my life in ebbw vale, so when you come to uk give me a shout and I'll show you around

A thing to note about the Ancestry DNA results is "AncestryDNA calculates your ethnicity estimate by comparing your DNA to a reference panel made up of DNA samples from thousands of people, representing 70 groups. Because our reference panel and the way we analyze your DNA both change as we get more data, your ethnicity results can change as we get more data" It's an educated guess based on what other members put in their trees.

Been doing family research for a while and my big tips are : 1. do not underestimate DNA services. Ethnicity estimates are interesting but the cousin matching is the gold mine. each match is a data point hinting to a line of ancestors and you may be able to help each other. 2. do not be uptight of data you "know for certain". been searching my Irish ancestor and the reason he was so hard to find was because his records were inconsistent. some documents said he was born in 1880's other say he was born in 1870's. some say he in his 80 when he died others say 90's. and this was especially true on Irish records. records in US had one last name irish had another. his parents were one name and other documents were another. the important thing is getting enough confidant data that you can see patterns. so that yeah the birth date may be off but on that document his name and address are the same as the census you found and the one of the signatures on the document may be a his wife or son. 3. don't be afraid to ask living relatives for information. On line stuff is well and good but the info your family has may be key in breaking a brick wall. On of my living relatives has an old grave deed listing known ancestors, giving me confirmation on important data such as birth/ death dates, and ages at death. but also several people on the deed were unknown. looking closer at one of the census these names showed up with names of my family. potentially showing me a whole line of cousins i didn't know about. 4. do not put too much stock in Family tree matches. a strangers family tree is only as good as their detective work, and i seen some pretty shity detective work. one family tree match i got someone attatched a news article from the 1960 close to Pittsburgh to an ancestor with a similar name whos live and died in Philadelphia in 1930's. the important thing are documents so if you look into trees then do your homework on the documents they have logged.

I did mine a few years back. I pretty much trusted what other people had done, so I don’t know how accurate everything was. But one cool thing I found is apparently my 7th great grandfather married Tabitha Harrison, daughter of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence and sister of President William Harrison.

1:27:25 Nah dude, Thomas Riddle is voldemort, you're related to voldemort.

I’m related to James Caldwell! He is my sixth great-grand uncle. He was brothers with my 6th great grandfather Robert Caldwell.

Almost the first thing I found doing my trees, is that my Wife's German born grandfather lived 15 miles my Norwegian Grandmother, in Minnesota from around 1900 to 1910, when they were children

Crazy im also a descendant of the Hatfield family!

Late comment but I started searching for my ancestry, on my mother's side went back to early 1600 and probably not done (found where that side of the family migrated from France to Quebec) However my father's side I am so completely stunned - after Canada's 1921 census there is a void of nothing - birth certificates, marriages, deaths, etc. nothing I can link. My grandfather was supposed to be born in 1923 - no records. He used a different name on his grave and most of his life than his real, roadblocked. Great grandfather doesnt show in the 1931 census. I need to rewatch this video to keep trying from another angle!

Not sure if ur gonna see this message but I live in wednesbury pretty cool that your family originated from the area

In the UK the 1921 census is the latest available I believe, being released last year. They are typically released after 100 years. Unfortunately during ww2, the census records for either 1931 or 1941 (I forget which, maybe even both) were destroyed in a fire. So I the future UK census records will have a 10-20 year gap in available records. However some of the census data in Scotland wasn't stored in London at the time, so may still exist. I really want to start getting into searching my family history. I know my grandmother came from what is now northern Ireland, but don't know exactly where or other details. The find a grave detail is great, though doubtful it would be helpful a I know all of my grandparents were cremated, so there won't be headstones etc. BTW, I live about 30-40 miles from tipton.

So cool. How/Where do you find all those "bonus" information about the people? So basically everything besides the numbers and the town Greetings from Germany, I love your videos

That spelling is definitely true. In a period of 4 generations my last name was spelt 3 different ways

Southern Indiana represent!

Have you ever considered watching Historia Civilis? His storytelling style is very interesting.

My moms moms maiden name is Bowling which goes back to Bolling whom I’m related to as well.

There are multiple surnames in your family tree that match up with mine and I am fascinated by that especially since they seem to be in similar areas of Ky.

Ireland lost a huge chunk of eight centuries of records, including 19th century censuses, when the building they were kept caught fire during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Big gap that church records can only cover so much.

For me I’ve been able to trace pretty far back except for more male lineage on my dads side and moms side of the family. My moms side is difficult to track because my great great grandfather took his mother’s maiden name as the new surname because his father basically disappeared after he was born which messes with the algorithm of the websites for as far as adding data. As for my dads side we just haven’t had too much luck. On the maidens side we’ve been able to trace back pretty far back on both my fathers side and mothers side. I need to have an actual dna test but just from averaging out the data a few generations back I’m pretty sure I’m mostly German and Scandinavian with French, English, and Native American being secondary. It’s funny how my surname is actually English which looks to be a secondary part genetic makeup.

I found it pretty interesting that you had an ancestor march into Vicksburg and March 22 1863 I had an ancestor die in Vicksburg

I wish georgia was able to keep records like this. Maybe the soviets did. But nothing before that unless family kept records :(

Any advice on how to determine ancestors previous to 1820's? I found my 4th great grandfather, but the records I am able to find don't help me point to his father, and the family trees with my 4th great grandfather have both his parents at 60 when he was born.

How you do hints is cross reference check censors also check 1939 registers but check matched births and area of living .

I would be really interested in knowing what languages my ancestors could read or write in.

It's so funny to me that you're 6 years older than me but your grandmother is only 4 years older than my parents. I am the youngest of 4 and my parents were 36 when I was born though. You're actually younger than my eldest sibling and same age as my 2nd elsest

My ancestors held the position of Lords of the Manor in Warwickshire. Lol didn't know that

About the part of leaving things out of your reviews when people are paying, i totally understand your position, and so knowing this if i did ever ask someone else to do research on my family history i would specifically tell them (or you) to include any and all information, good or bad . personally i just like to know the truth.

coincidentally, I was making a genealogical tree, when suddenly it appears as a suggestion, it is that my grandmother is the ancestor of a British captain named James Cook.

I wish I had grandmas and grandpas living just mom and dad

This was a great video sadly I missed it live. I got some good ideas on ways to continue my research. Looking forward to more genealogy info.

I honestly want to know how to do this I know like little about who I’m related to or what my family history is.

One of my ancestors is William brewster

I have just watched this. Great. I am descended from James V of Scotland (Euphimie Elpinstone) by both my biological and adoptive (Stewart) families.

Since you’re from the Steubenville area did any of your relatives ever meet Dean Martin when he was an up-and-coming singer?

Talk about skeletons.. 3 in my family has comitted suicide the last 30 years which must be some kind of record. And 1 in my family did some ancestry research and apparently in the 1800 someone in my family murdered someone. This video made me wanna do some research myself though! I'm very interested in history and the point you brought up about having a personal connection with history is something I haven't thought about before so thanks for that. I'm Swedish tough like 99% I bet and my ancestors were as most swedes back to the 1800s very poor farmers but I think there should be some church dokuments and stuff. Probably some military documents maybe back in the 1700s (when we had a military😅😅)

Cool I had family on my mother’s side who were in the civil war on both sides and I just want to find what there names were and what regiment they were in.

My mother was Golda Ann Whitaker Tennessee

On my moms side i am related to a drummer of the war of 1812 and in my dads side i believe i am related to a Confederate Arkansas Calvary officer although i cant find the information again which kinda sucks

I was wondering how to research given that from what i know is that my family is from a rural chinese village

What kind of monster?...Some kind of monster :)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm your cousin as well, Edward III is my 20th great-grandfather. :D

I have track my family history. I have 2 catholic saints, and count emblem ^^

Found a connection to James IV through both my grandfathers. Both were through his Illegitimate daughter Janet 'the beautiful Scotswoman'

You are 18 years older than me and my Grandmother was born 22 years before yours... that is crazy

Does anyone know how the Ottoman records are, in particular, for the Greeks? As well, how are Russian records?

Chris, I just have a question about researching my own genealogy. How hard is it to find WW2 era German records?

Hey, i am from Norway and i would apreciate if you would like to react to operation weserubung, Keep up the good work Respect from Norway!

If you have some old pictures of your relatives, on myheritage there is a tool to make black and white pictures in colour

There's so much we can find in our family history! On my mum's side, my great-great grandfather owned a big plantation in the south during the early 1800s. My grandfather lived in Argentina, immigrating from Germany where he was a dog handler of some sorts. Then immigrated to the USA where he met my grandmother. Crazy how different they were and ended up meeting!

I wonder how good Mexican and Spanish records are

We all have good and bad in our trees...I knew the Riley family line had Indian somewhere according to most family members but I didn't know how....recently believe I accidentally found info....yep info that priced we all have at least one skelton...Andthank God we all have good also...I'm not sure exactly which daughter of war chief we are directly related to but it's by way of Ningon Riley who I know I'm related to not just by greatgradfather but because they all liced in same counties ect ect and all have more than one other family member who were all related. I USED CENSUS, ALSO find a grave and viewed sources listed and used them to back track several of their family listed ect.

Though excellent, Find A Grave is just as prone to errors as other user submitted data, and it is predominantly without references. Hence all info on this platform should be considered with the same critical review as hints on Ancestry and user-submitted trees. Transcripts from tombstones can be taken as a starting point but also subject to error (dates and places) because the info is often given by younger family members. Dutch records are excellent but they are on a separate paywall platform. This is the case with many European records. Ancestry, Familysearch and others are working hard to access such records but do not have as many.

Man, I feel so inspired after watching this. Unfortunately, I’m a first generation American from Cuban parents and I highly doubt I can find any of this information from communist Cuba.

My name, Pickett, is misspelt in the census at least 50 times. The census officer I guess thought it was spelt with one T.

I know this is an old video but you said "German/Prussian records are excellent". My surname comes from Prussia yet I can't seem to go back any further than an ancestor on that line past one born in 1830s. Only like my 4th great grandfather or something.