Ruth; Sorry to say I have not included County Histories in my 26 year project of looking at the Royal and Noble families of the U.K. and also Europe (in particular France, Germany and the Netherlands) in relation to the ancestors of Queen Victoria - I do not place sufficient integrity or accuracy on the material. This project is quite separate and different from my own family genealogy and necessitates quite different criteria be applied. It is now likened to an exercise in Sociology. Published genealogies also need to be treated with a great deal of caution and scepticism and the sources carefully reviewed. However Ruth, the Royals and/or Nobles throughout history have generally attracted far greater accuracy/integrity in the recording of their biographies, dates, etc., than us ordinary people. Regards Len Heyward -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ruth Appleby via Sent: 21 May, 2016 4:31 AM To: jlclake Lake; [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] Charlemagne 742 My link to Charlemagne is through family in Lancashire. I managed to trace family back to the early 18th century (confirmed in parish registers, probate documents, marriage contracts etc) which included my "gateway" marriage between a middle class man in Preston to a blue-blooded girl from a long established family who had hit hard times. Despite being relatively poor by that time, her ancestry was well documented in county histories, church records, land transfers and deeds, and published genealogies of her royal forebears. Once you find a gateway person, much of the basic work has already been done for you. The luck lies in the essential documents having survived in county archives to reach that person. Ruth Sent from my iPad > On 20 May 2016, at 17:43, jlclake Lake via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd be very interested to know what kind of sources you have to trace your ancestry back to Charlemagne. I know he probably has thousands of descendents today (and, who knows, maybe I'm one of them), but when I find him in ancestry member trees, the only sources, if any, that are cited are other ancestry trees, and I'm very sceptical. I'd love to have my scepticism proved wrong, though. > > John > > ________________________________________ > > >> Like most other people who are lucky enough to find a more recent paper trail, I too can trace my ancestry back to Charlemagne. I should be interested to know the source of your >assertion about the HEXT and YEO families. > > >> In the process of gathering additional info on a number of my >> associated Devon ancestry lines, I have become aware that the HEXT >> family of Devon, and indeed also the YEO family, are "blood >> descendants" of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, born about 742. > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon > can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message