Matt Baker Family Tree

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Chart: Matt Baker
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  • @UsefulCharts
    @UsefulCharts4 жыл бұрын

    I created the following template in case you want to make your own family tree in the "UsefulCharts" style shown in this video: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1835/6621/files/family-tree-template.odg You can download it for free. It's a LibreOffice Draw file. I did a tutorial on it a few weeks ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i3apzo9pmsu5d6g.html

  • @freeunderratedmusic4273

    @freeunderratedmusic4273

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol, what a coincidence! I was just about to look for one of your videos to find this link, but I guess that's not necessary anymore.

  • @adammoore7059

    @adammoore7059

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey thanks for sharing about your family I'm big into genealogy are you an only child or do you have siblings?

  • @adammoore7059

    @adammoore7059

    4 жыл бұрын

    Could you do one on my distant cousin's family? His family came from England

  • @adammoore7059

    @adammoore7059

    4 жыл бұрын

    @BaumGlory Hell no! ...I was talking to Matt from useful charts ...you are not him ...I don't know you I'm not going to give you the names ....if Matt wants to talk to me or if you are him and can prove it then I'll work with you

  • @RaymondAlexisPuentes90-70-100

    @RaymondAlexisPuentes90-70-100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I'd like to do something like this for my own family tree.

  • @rina123456
    @rina1234564 жыл бұрын

    So, I started watching this video with the thought, "Oh, a fellow Canadian is showing some of their family tree, how interesting", then Nova Scotia came up and I sat up a little straighter, "Oh wow," I'm thinking, "He has genealogical roots in my province! I wonder if he's Nova Scotian himself. This is hitting pretty close to home, youtube videos never do that". Then the name Johannes Becker comes up and everything screeches to a halt. For you see, my good sir, I know that name very well. Johannes Becker is my 6x great-grandfather through his son John Jacob (1752-1813) down to my mother and then to me. So, we are distant cousins, and my mind just broke a little bit. I REALLY want to pick your brain on our mutual line. So hello from your distant cousin and fan in Colchester, Nova Scotia.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi cousin! Feel free to email me. It's matt at usefulcharts dot com.

  • @Paul-px7jh

    @Paul-px7jh

    4 жыл бұрын

    You guys are fifth cousins, two times removed. :)

  • @Ushankhuru

    @Ushankhuru

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol I guess I'm not the only one who found a distant cousin. Oh rural nova Scotia...

  • @QemeH

    @QemeH

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are you sure, it's the same Johannes Becker? That's not exactly an uncommon name in germany...

  • @romanparisi5503

    @romanparisi5503

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's so cool....How you guys get to share info

  • @jasoncowley4718
    @jasoncowley47184 жыл бұрын

    Matt, you literally own an island! Sir Matt of Big Tancook, House of Baker.

  • @Pfsif

    @Pfsif

    4 жыл бұрын

    Duke of Earl .

  • @chidoman1595

    @chidoman1595

    4 жыл бұрын

    Long may he reign!

  • @lodestarlondon8850

    @lodestarlondon8850

    4 жыл бұрын

    @James Matt King of Big Cook

  • @heater1237

    @heater1237

    4 жыл бұрын

    You better go to Big Tancook now, Charts.

  • @BuckChongus

    @BuckChongus

    4 жыл бұрын

    He sounds like he has a pretty good claim!

  • @MalachiCo0
    @MalachiCo04 жыл бұрын

    All hail Matt of house Baker, High King of Tancook Island!

  • @octaviusroosevelt7355

    @octaviusroosevelt7355

    4 жыл бұрын

    MalachiCo0 Someone out there please make a national anthem for Tancook Island called "God Save the Baker Dynasty" or something like that.

  • @edronnpanti6679

    @edronnpanti6679

    2 жыл бұрын

    can someone make an anthem for this

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o4 жыл бұрын

    When you do a DNA test and get 100% Iberian and you still live in Iberia. GG

  • @iniudan

    @iniudan

    4 жыл бұрын

    By 100% Iberian what do you exactly mean? As Iberia kind of one of the largest ancient melting pot of DNA outside of West Asia. Do you mean actual ancient Iberian DNA? That would be unusual as all hell considering how many conquerors and migrants went over the East cost of Iberia. Ancient Iberian DNA would be easy to identify as it would stick out like Basque DNA, been also a pre-Indo-European.

  • @junkbucket50

    @junkbucket50

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm English/Scottish still living there and got 91% England+Scotland for my DNA test

  • @StarLord_2307

    @StarLord_2307

    4 жыл бұрын

    Incest

  • @dyread

    @dyread

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@StarLord_2307 Hardly incest when there's millions of people living in Spain and Portugal.

  • @StarLord_2307

    @StarLord_2307

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dyread no dont you know that everybody has atleast some bit of foreign blood in them

  • @GeneaVlogger
    @GeneaVlogger4 жыл бұрын

    63 years old and fighting fires, even for today that is a pretty amazing accomplishment. Your 2nd-great grandfather Edward Condon must have been one tough guy!

  • @rukminikrishna1938

    @rukminikrishna1938

    2 жыл бұрын

    He died in the explosion aged 63

  • @nmoney6655

    @nmoney6655

    6 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@rukminikrishna1938 hey 21 and still aging I know my great grandma was Irish and my grandfather was black and I got married and had my grandmother and her siblings and eventually my grandmother got married and had had my mom and uncle my mom went on to have my older sister and then me and my little brothers and my older sister had a kid a few years ago he’s 3 now so my mom is a grandma now

  • @noorbohamad5796

    @noorbohamad5796

    5 ай бұрын

    @@nmoney6655how nice that your mother’s a grandmother now I’m happy and glad for her

  • @ChrisStargazer
    @ChrisStargazer4 жыл бұрын

    This ranks as one of my most favorite of all your videos because of how personal it is. Everyone has a story; so glad you told yours (or at least part of it).

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Chris. Next week Hawaii!

  • @jackiecozzie4803

    @jackiecozzie4803

    3 жыл бұрын

    @sleepy • 16 years ago it's his specific ancestry

  • @hampusandersson5730
    @hampusandersson57304 жыл бұрын

    ”Like anyone else, I have eight great-grandparents”, *laughs in Alabama

  • @iraq4855

    @iraq4855

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not evrey one have eghit great grandparents .

  • @Barc112

    @Barc112

    4 жыл бұрын

    *laughs in Casterly Rock*

  • @ekvedrek

    @ekvedrek

    4 жыл бұрын

    *laughs in Habsburg*

  • @mia-gj5xq

    @mia-gj5xq

    4 жыл бұрын

    They do you biologically have 2 parents and they each have 2 parents and then they have 2 parents too which are your great grandparents even if you don’t know them you still biologically have them

  • @ekvedrek

    @ekvedrek

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mia cousins and siblings exist

  • @cypriencoon8744
    @cypriencoon87444 жыл бұрын

    One of those Cajuns here! Nearly 60% of my ancestors are Acadians, and genealogy also allowed me to learn I'm a descendant of both Beausoleil Broussard and his brother!

  • @bubb5225

    @bubb5225

    4 жыл бұрын

    HormChaoui lessez le bon temps roule!

  • @JohnJohn-ls2uz

    @JohnJohn-ls2uz

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am descended from his sister

  • @ekvedrek

    @ekvedrek

    4 жыл бұрын

    *hold up*

  • @moondust2365

    @moondust2365

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ekvedrek It's basically not incest but kinda. XD Kinda like two of my grandparents, actually.

  • @ekvedrek

    @ekvedrek

    4 жыл бұрын

    There’s no KINDA about it.

  • @kylielandry4098
    @kylielandry4098 Жыл бұрын

    What a great video! I am also a descendent of Johannes Becker and Moses Levy. My great-grandmother was a Levy that was born and raised on Tancook. It is so nice to get more information on the stories and history of how these ancestors ended up in Tancook!

  • @nmoney6655

    @nmoney6655

    6 ай бұрын

    Apparently my great grandmother moved here from Ireland a hundred years ago and she met my great grandfather who ended up having my grandmother and her brothers and sisters my grandmother actually got married and had my mom and uncle and my mom met my dad and she ended up having my brothers and sister and me and our genealogy continues on with my nephew who just turned 3 this year because I just turned 21

  • @nemeczek67
    @nemeczek674 жыл бұрын

    I am a direct descendant of Adam and Eve. Beat that.

  • @hardinarthandsyach328

    @hardinarthandsyach328

    4 жыл бұрын

    Underrated

  • @adammoore7059

    @adammoore7059

    4 жыл бұрын

    So am I 🙂

  • @netajithevar296

    @netajithevar296

    4 жыл бұрын

    If only the Bible stories were real.

  • @adammoore7059

    @adammoore7059

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@netajithevar296 they are real

  • @netajithevar296

    @netajithevar296

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@adammoore7059 sure... except that there is no scientific proof.

  • @jlibra3134
    @jlibra31344 жыл бұрын

    Still waiting for my dad to come back home from the grocery store where he's been missing for 14 years

  • @Pfsif

    @Pfsif

    4 жыл бұрын

    He'll be back soon.

  • @FaaduProductions

    @FaaduProductions

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh

  • @jlibra3134

    @jlibra3134

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dad!What takes you so long there?

  • @FaaduProductions

    @FaaduProductions

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jlibra3134 milk truk just arrive

  • @victormezynski9727

    @victormezynski9727

    4 жыл бұрын

    He's a KZreadr now

  • @adc4836
    @adc48364 жыл бұрын

    Imagine doing this and finding out it’s in a straight line

  • @Nahasapasa

    @Nahasapasa

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well the odds of having 64 unique G-G-G-G-Grandparents is quite low in Nova Scotia

  • @ericabeatson6809
    @ericabeatson68094 жыл бұрын

    1 of the more interesting migration stories in my family is one of my Great-great-grandmothers came to Canada through Barnardo Homes. One of the many British Charities that sent orphaned or abandoned kids from Great Britain to Canada

  • @IowaKim

    @IowaKim

    4 жыл бұрын

    While doing my tree I stumbled upon two great-uncles who were sent to Canada as Home children. They were my dad's uncles. My dad had immigrated from England to the US in 1954. Since my dad was from England I did not expect any relatives here in the New World on his side. I found over a hundred relatives living a four hour drive from me. We have reconnected and one first cousin once removed looks remarkably like my father. the two great-uncles lives were pretty hard, and their mother was alive she just apparently could not take care of the children after her husband abandoned her.

  • @IowaKim

    @IowaKim

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@norlofthor7088 my father passed away in 1988 at the age of 70 oh, and I never knew about his uncle's being sent to Canada. The two uncles have passed and it was their children that I've reconnected with. Their mother was alive when they were sent to Canada but the father had a abandoned in the family.

  • @-_-1665

    @-_-1665

    4 жыл бұрын

    My parents migrated from poland in 2004

  • @rwolfheart6580
    @rwolfheart65804 жыл бұрын

    This has me itching to work on my family tree again. I have an Irish line that's been a dead end so far--they immigrated recently enough that there's census records, but my furthest ancestor has a super common name and I haven't been able to trace which part of Ireland he was from or exactly when he immigrated. Meanwhile, the only thing stopping me from going further with my French ancestors is that Ancestry won't let me see the church records in France without a subscription!

  • @lozpio

    @lozpio

    4 жыл бұрын

    Emily Payeur please, tell me about some of you’re French ancestors. I’m able to research families outside of the U.S.

  • @casewhite5048

    @casewhite5048

    3 жыл бұрын

    family search is a great way to get around that

  • @MF-sy5ty

    @MF-sy5ty

    2 жыл бұрын

    Most (like 90%) of French church records are online and available for free on the archives site of each French department actually. So there's really no point in paying an Ancestry subscription.

  • @RandomPerson-py8yi

    @RandomPerson-py8yi

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can help you with your french ancestry if you want!

  • @noorbohamad5796

    @noorbohamad5796

    5 ай бұрын

    @@RandomPerson-py8yihow nice? thoughtful?

  • @Aarontlondon
    @Aarontlondon4 жыл бұрын

    I found out I have ancestors with surname Levy when exploring my genealogy, and also saw that I have distant Jewish ancestry when I did a 23andMe test, so I think you may have provided me with a link. Thanks!

  • @angryyoungman66

    @angryyoungman66

    3 жыл бұрын

    great for you, you're lucky you have a knowledge of your ancestors I only know as far as my grandparents that's it ,I don't even know their birthdates i know only their names , it's a shame

  • @mg222.
    @mg222.4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing! I love hearing the stories involved with any family tree. My family name is actually Acadian with me being a direct descendant of the first family to settle on PEI.

  • @BarryWillBuck
    @BarryWillBuck4 жыл бұрын

    All of my great grandparents have very different stories. My dad's dad's dad could trace most of his ancestry to Great Britain through the New England colonies, my dad's dad's mom could trace most of her ancestry back to Germany through Pennsylvania, my dad's mom's dad was born in Sicily and part of the wave of new immigrants that came through Ellis Island, my dad's mom's mom could trace her ancestry to the Netherlands and Belgium through the New Amsterdam settlement in New York. All of my mom's grandparents came to Wisconsin. My mom's dad's parents trace most of their ancestry back to Switzerland, my mom's mom's dad traces his ancestry back to Norway, and my mom's mom's mom traces her ancestry back to Switzerland and Germany. ...after all that I call myself a South Carolinian. My friends say I am not a southern boi

  • @jimbusmapping9177

    @jimbusmapping9177

    4 жыл бұрын

    When you mentioned Wisconsin it became all over for you my guy... as Yankee as you can get

  • @BarryWillBuck

    @BarryWillBuck

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jimbusmapping9177 what?

  • @i.pezzotti853

    @i.pezzotti853

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m Puerto Rican, my father is Italian, my mother French, my mother is one fourth English and one fourth Italian as well, my father’s mother was American who was a German-Portuguese-Spanish descendant, my maternal grandmother was half Irish half Spanish and according to ancestry I also have Egyptian, Turkish, Greek, Israeli and Belgium. Holy shit what a mix.

  • @timonheidema6837
    @timonheidema68374 жыл бұрын

    A story about my maternal grandfather: I'm Dutch and my family has been for many generations (dating back to at least 1400 AD on most lines). And The Netherlands was occupied by Germany during WW2. Now, my grandfather had quite an adventure during the war. Not only did he and his family have Jews hidden away (One of which was born while hidden and actually showed up at my grandpa's funeral), but he also narrowly escaped a German conscription, by stealing someone's bike, which he later returned. So yes, you are right... Everyone has an interesting family story, no matter if you're rich or poor, famous or not...

  • @hanszimmer9224

    @hanszimmer9224

    4 жыл бұрын

    And by Spain & Austria

  • @timonheidema6837

    @timonheidema6837

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hanszimmer9224 What about Spain and Austria?

  • @hanszimmer9224

    @hanszimmer9224

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@timonheidema6837 The netherlands were also occupied by spain, austria, burgund & france.

  • @timonheidema6837

    @timonheidema6837

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@hanszimmer9224 Yes. In history. I was just talking about my maternal grandfather in WW2

  • @priyanshupriyam5024

    @priyanshupriyam5024

    4 жыл бұрын

    But I don't.

  • @jasonkiefer1894
    @jasonkiefer18944 жыл бұрын

    Great history, Matt. I remember the episode about the Halifax explosion on The Great War Channel. Sorry for your family's tragedy. But to be a part of major historical events is no small thing. Thank you for the links. I am going to head over to watch videos about my mostly German ancestry. Always keep up the good work.

  • @gagejohannsen4413
    @gagejohannsen44132 жыл бұрын

    Here’s a helpful tip that no one seems to mention: if you’re having trouble finding the parents or children of a deceased relative, look for their obituary, most funeral homes will post these online and they will include the deceased predecessed relatives (parents, children, siblings). They will also usually include the “survived by” members of the family from spouses to grand children

  • @razzmatazz1974
    @razzmatazz19744 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting! Im currently working on my genealogy so i find this fascinating

  • @lrose1310
    @lrose13104 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE learning about people's family genealogy. Everyone's family has a plethora of stories and they're all fascinating.

  • @aston5388
    @aston53884 жыл бұрын

    How you find out these information I cant even know my grandfather dad....

  • @Terrus_38

    @Terrus_38

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you'll really research you can even find out your far ancestors :) I have an uncle who spent almost his whole live making my family's genealogic tree. He "dug it" to 12th century :)

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    4 жыл бұрын

    Start by asking any older relatives that you might be in contact with. Then try a site like ancestry.com. If you're adopted or have very little contact with relatives, a DNA test might be the only way to start.

  • @aston5388

    @aston5388

    4 жыл бұрын

    UsefulCharts the mother of my grandpa never tell anyone who is his father so my surname is named after her :(

  • @FamilyHistoryFanatics

    @FamilyHistoryFanatics

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aston5388 Genealogy is about time and location. The genealogist's secret weapon for knowing what records are available in any area in the world is FamilySearch.org/Wiki . Then type in the location you are researching and see what is available. This isn't the page to research your ancestors but rather s portal to other records sets, even if you knew little about your ancestors.

  • @thegamingrhino5864

    @thegamingrhino5864

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@norlofthor7088 your english may be broken, but i understood it completely

  • @thomasdixon4373
    @thomasdixon43734 жыл бұрын

    Different but also good to mix it up a bit and I think you are someone special

  • @TheBoyer19
    @TheBoyer194 жыл бұрын

    My great great grandparents came to Canada during the Ukrainian famine With no money and had to work as farm hands for 10 years until they could afford a small 1 room house with 7 kids

  • @Gena_Tsidrusni

    @Gena_Tsidrusni

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cool, i'm from Ukraine!

  • @AnthonyP73
    @AnthonyP734 жыл бұрын

    Having explored my own genealogy, I would never say someone else's tree is not interesting. I have also helped others with their trees and invariably there is something meaty and interesting in every tree. Thanks for sharing yours Matt!

  • @Barc112
    @Barc1124 жыл бұрын

    1:53 Not everyone has eight great-grandparents. Joffrey, Myrcella and Tommen Baratheon only have four.

  • @Ari33sa

    @Ari33sa

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah four great grandparents and... only six great great grandparents...

  • @arandomyorkshireman9678

    @arandomyorkshireman9678

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well you have 8 biological great grandparents but one of them might have left you’re other great grandparent when you’re grandparent was young.(also incest)

  • @ekvedrek

    @ekvedrek

    4 жыл бұрын

    United Kingdom *ALABAMA INTRNSIFIES*

  • @jackiecozzie4803

    @jackiecozzie4803

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@arandomyorkshireman9678 but what if some are the same person, like in this example it's talking about the incest in game of thrones

  • @arandomyorkshireman9678

    @arandomyorkshireman9678

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jackiecozzie4803 yeah that can happen too

  • @kingly2411
    @kingly24114 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been waiting for this

  • @Lucien-dx8rd
    @Lucien-dx8rd4 жыл бұрын

    “These are my grandparents and like everyone else I have 8 of them.” *sad Alabama noises*

  • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
    @icreatedanaccountforthis18524 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed that you shared this with us. I think so much of history is about regular people just trying to find their way in life. It's great to get glimpses into this kind of history and remember that famous people are rulers are only a tiny bit of the population.

  • @chirsh11
    @chirsh114 жыл бұрын

    You are someone special! Without you, we wouldn’t have this awesome channel!

  • @chirsh11

    @chirsh11

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also since my entire family is Jewish there’s very little info on some of my ancestors 🤷🏻‍♂️. Although I am related to the longest serving president of FC Bayern Munich, which is pretty cool. And my great great great grandfather was a wealthy rice farmer in Louisiana, which, well, isn’t as cool but 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @conorlamere399
    @conorlamere3994 жыл бұрын

    "It's a really simple story, there was a bad blight on potato crops in Ireland... Made worse by bad (British) government policies. " Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half. Glad you acknowledged that it wasn't as simple as failed crops.

  • @kevwang0712
    @kevwang07124 жыл бұрын

    I've spent the past few days binging on this channel, and aside from all the great work with all the family trees, I'm giving my biggest thumbs up to the fact that you use Ubuntu and Libreoffice. In all seriousness though, I might offer a few interesting tidbits that maybe not that many people know. I'm Taiwanese, and although Taiwan at first glance might seem relatively homogenous since the great majority of the people can trace their roots to southeastern China (aside from the indigenous peoples of course), oftentimes the families that migrated to Taiwan before the mid to late 17th century have some European DNA in their blood that might not be documented in their official family trees; this was because of Dutch and Spanish settlements in Taiwan, but of course at the time acknowledging that you conceived a child with a "red haired barbarian" would be a disgrace to the family. Also, of the Ming dynasty loyalists that drove the Dutch out, some were either Chinese Muslims or had Arab roots that went even further back in history; to this day there are families in southern Taiwan who follow the Islamic practice of burial within one day as a family tradition, even though the families themselves have not followed the religion for generations. Not much important info here, just that seeing this video reminded me of this.

  • @angela4469
    @angela44694 жыл бұрын

    Every family has an interesting story to tell. Another great video, thank you!

  • @hannahstahl1857
    @hannahstahl18574 жыл бұрын

    Fancy fancy, Mr. Baker. Thank you for sharing your family history with us

  • @TWOOOOO2
    @TWOOOOO24 жыл бұрын

    Damn, all I know about my great grandparents is the fact that they existed at all

  • @1roanstephen
    @1roanstephen4 жыл бұрын

    Actually, your family history is interesting and nice to learn. Thank you for this channel.

  • @jasondykstra5257
    @jasondykstra52574 жыл бұрын

    Great video, it is very interesting looking into your families past. I have recently dived down the rabbithole myself and was more than happy with my findings!

  • @parkermanist
    @parkermanist4 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed this one. Thanks for sharing Matt!

  • @untruelie2640
    @untruelie26404 жыл бұрын

    Nice Video! :D And 3 interesting migration stories. Thanks for sharing them with us.

  • @corvus1374
    @corvus13744 жыл бұрын

    I had Huguenot Flemish ancestors who went to New Netherlands after they were hounded out of France. They arrived in 1661.

  • @rubylynch7540
    @rubylynch75404 жыл бұрын

    My maternal family migrated to Nova Scotia from Scotland on the ship Hector in 1773. I can actually trace all the way back to the Hector through the female line! So many people in my family love genealogy, and we have some really beautiful handmade family trees knocking around various attics in NS and PEI. We settled more around the Pictou area, up near the north of Nova Scotia. My grandma was born in Pictou in the 40s, so obviously doesnt remember the Halifax explosion, BUT she does have a copy of her mother's diary who lived in Halifax around the time of the explosion and wrote about her memories of it, so I've always grown up knowing about it. Its always so exciting to hear someone talk about Nova Scotia or the Halifax explosion, my grandparents moved to the UK in the 60s so I've only visited Canada 6 or 7 times. I love it so much and really feel connected to it. So nice to hear that one of my favourite channels has roots in the same province I do, and your ancestors have some connections to mine! Very very cool video my friend xx

  • @OnkelJajusBahn
    @OnkelJajusBahn4 жыл бұрын

    It was really interresting to see that story of your ancestors, I also find the fact interresting, that you have so many ancestors from such a tiny island, which is kind of a special place.

  • @WTFCDFoxy
    @WTFCDFoxy4 жыл бұрын

    It's very interesting to think that how diverse and mixed every person actually is...

  • @Vigilante-3-1

    @Vigilante-3-1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thats why you're supposed to treat everyone as an individual and not as a group of any kind.

  • @dylanmartin7604

    @dylanmartin7604

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mate I'm 100% Anglo Saxon and celtic up to the 1600's, only stopped because I can't chase my tree any farther.

  • @netajithevar296

    @netajithevar296

    4 жыл бұрын

    He is 100% white. How is he mixed?

  • @alexanderchristopher6237

    @alexanderchristopher6237

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@netajithevar296 different kind of whites though. Call an Irish an English, even though they're both white, and you might earn yourself a beating.

  • @elisabeth4912

    @elisabeth4912

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@netajithevar296 He's of German, Jewish and Irish descent.

  • @superguy199
    @superguy1993 жыл бұрын

    "Everyone has 8 great grandparents" Me who has 10 because my dad was adopted through marriage: Pathetic

  • @kets4443

    @kets4443

    3 жыл бұрын

    so his stepparent adopted him?

  • @superguy199

    @superguy199

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kets4443 yes

  • @wooy1701

    @wooy1701

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have 8 biological grand parents but 12 trough marige and divorce

  • @BoundlessGenealogy
    @BoundlessGenealogy4 жыл бұрын

    I love this view of micro-history in the context of broader history. Thanks, Matt!

  • @notquiteatory971
    @notquiteatory9714 жыл бұрын

    Bruh, you are special. You make the effort to make these maps. Thank you.

  • @shwalkingmeme485
    @shwalkingmeme4854 жыл бұрын

    Hears Levi... ATTACK ON TITAN!!!

  • @n4ppin

    @n4ppin

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for that comment xD

  • @itscharthemself

    @itscharthemself

    4 жыл бұрын

    what napf said

  • @myalt.yt.shorts.account

    @myalt.yt.shorts.account

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rwtard

  • @itscharthemself

    @itscharthemself

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@myalt.yt.shorts.account no! don't be mean!

  • @Ar-fy5nc

    @Ar-fy5nc

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@itscharthemself so Levi is Jews name in Jews island. Interesting.

  • @user-if7wd4dy7x
    @user-if7wd4dy7x4 жыл бұрын

    My great great great great grandparent is Barbarosa the great turkish pirate Im from Greece lmao

  • @nesminra8982

    @nesminra8982

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow crazy!!

  • @billylauwda9178

    @billylauwda9178

    4 жыл бұрын

    Does that mean you get to have a free cutlass and a rowdy drunken crew to crew your ship

  • @ManhaJSalafee

    @ManhaJSalafee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ha ha funny

  • @ekvedrek

    @ekvedrek

    4 жыл бұрын

    *so when ya revoltin’*

  • @zfesiha

    @zfesiha

    4 жыл бұрын

    Are you serius?! That's really amazing and weird.

  • @stellaluna6421
    @stellaluna642110 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the work that goes into your excellent captions!

  • @jennaolbermann7663
    @jennaolbermann76633 жыл бұрын

    I love genealogy because every person in the tree has a story to tell. I am starting to study in order to become a professional, it marries two of my passions together: history and genealogy. I have learned a lot more history from doing this and I have a deeper appreciation for my ancestors.

  • @aposiopetic
    @aposiopetic4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing your family's history with us! And, as ever, for your thoughtful approach to history and engagement with politically resonant material.

  • @charlietaube4026
    @charlietaube40264 жыл бұрын

    I thank you for your grandfather’s service in World War II

  • @laslooo
    @laslooo4 жыл бұрын

    Loved the use of maps and other images used to supplement your family narrative while you traversed your family tree. Loved it! Would love to see more multi-modal integration of other types of media while stepping through any of your charts. Keep up the great work!

  • @iainsan
    @iainsan4 жыл бұрын

    I found this fascinating. In many ways, the family trees of 'ordinary' people are more interesting than those of royalty, because they are a history of struggle and survival. Thank you for sharing it. You must have felt so excited when you were able to trace a branch of your family back to the 17th century.

  • @alcaulique8358
    @alcaulique83584 жыл бұрын

    You inhabitants of the colony with you crazy family tree! ;) Mine is simple everybody is from the same region.

  • @Benjey657
    @Benjey6574 жыл бұрын

    Interesting story, I know from grandma, that my great great grandfather was a strongman in a circus.

  • @pipmitchell7059
    @pipmitchell70593 жыл бұрын

    Hey! You're almost a neighbour! What fun to find (completely by chance) on KZread one of the few inhabitants of Tancook Island. Thank you for sharing your family's history with its links to significant events in Nova Scotia history - very interesting!

  • @helenat2446
    @helenat24464 жыл бұрын

    My heritage is Chinese and I have lived in Australia all my life and only speak English. I’m so envious of everyone who is able to trace their family histories in detail because they still have the language. Mine is full of lots of migration stories which are just that - stories passed down but slowly forgotten.

  • @hopegold883
    @hopegold8834 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see charts on Nā Aliʻi Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian royalty).

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's next week's topic 😀

  • @60enterprises
    @60enterprises4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing YOUR story, like the stories that are part of the channel, it is equally important

  • @aceofspades8634
    @aceofspades8634 Жыл бұрын

    You are so lucky to be able to trace so many ancestors! I’ve always been curious about genealogy and my ancestry, but sadly, the furthest ancestor I can trace back to is my great-great-great grandfather. I can’t go back any further even if I wanted to, since our culture didn’t have a writing system until the 18th century, and all stories, legends, and information were passed down through oral songs or poems.

  • @ricey23
    @ricey234 жыл бұрын

    You've got some interesting stories here Matt. I tried doing a family tree but mine is a mess, thanks grandpa!

  • @kevinjati7953
    @kevinjati79534 жыл бұрын

    I remember all my grandparents my great grandparents my great great my great great great I live in indonesia but my great great great great great great grandfather lives in china and he moves here to indonesia with a chinese diplomat named cheng ho. My great⁶ grandfather is a chinese royal family according to his clan name. And he used to write a book about his biography and we still continue that tradition. The book now is approx 3cm thick. And my great⁶ grandfather and his son and grandchild has 10 child so it would be hard to make my family tree. My mother only made a family tree from my great⁵ grandfather. But we knew the name thanks to the book that my great⁶ grandfather made.

  • @keladitua8535

    @keladitua8535

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah

  • @samuelboucher1454
    @samuelboucher14544 жыл бұрын

    Could you do a video charting the many divergences of Protestantism following the Reformation? I have always wanted to see how every denomination was formed. :)

  • @jeansbeans7452

    @jeansbeans7452

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @ELee-zv5ud

    @ELee-zv5ud

    4 жыл бұрын

    That will be a mess. Every little sect kept splitting over the most minor thing. How about a time limit. Say until 1800. They are still splitting. Especially once they were in the US . So many are not even the consequence of splitting but of individuals who decided to start their own "church" often with little theology. Where to draw the line.

  • @darrellc.symonds9339
    @darrellc.symonds93393 жыл бұрын

    Thank’s for this interesting video; I have cousins that grew up on the Tancooks. Their mom is from Cape Sable Island, NS. I believe besides fishing, they may have worked on the ferry to.

  • @mikes10663
    @mikes106634 жыл бұрын

    Three years ago we spent three weeks in the Maritime Provinces. For the first week we rented a house near Lunenburg and spent every day exploring the island. Big Tancook was one of the places we visited!

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice. It's actually been 15 years since I last visited Nova Scotia (I'm on the West coast now). I'm overdue for a trip!

  • @korbinarnold101
    @korbinarnold1014 жыл бұрын

    Hi! Love the video and just wanted to ask... even though its a bit of a stretch, would you possibly consider creating a large family tree chart of Native or "Indian" royalty/leaders please? At least Native Americans i would hope,im Cherokee and Inca but i have a very hard time keeping all of the information on their leadership and monarchs in order, and i thiught you may be able to help seeing as your, well, a genealogicsl genius. The best im able to do is get my family tree of 6,000 prople, but historical facts are hard to come by.

  • @UsefulCharts

    @UsefulCharts

    4 жыл бұрын

    I actually hope to do the Incas soon. As for Native Americans from what is now the U.S., I don't know of any records that show leaders prior to European arrival. If you know of any, let me know.

  • @korbinarnold101

    @korbinarnold101

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@UsefulCharts awesome! Thank you!!

  • @Brian-on8kb
    @Brian-on8kb4 жыл бұрын

    If my dad wouldn’t have went toVietnam then I wouldn’t be here. History wouldn’t be the same.

  • @collinssportstalk7504
    @collinssportstalk75044 жыл бұрын

    Matt, Don’t hate on yourself. Your Special

  • @tracyleesmith781
    @tracyleesmith7814 жыл бұрын

    This is very interesting! Ur ancestors are proud of u!❤❤❤

  • @thecrap17yearsago35
    @thecrap17yearsago354 жыл бұрын

    1:53 I only have 7 great grandparents don't assume things y'a don't know

  • @Gena_Tsidrusni

    @Gena_Tsidrusni

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your parents were half-cousins?

  • @i.pezzotti853

    @i.pezzotti853

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wtf is this a joke or is this true?

  • @leonardodavid2842
    @leonardodavid28424 жыл бұрын

    My friend family name is Levy. It comes from France, probably a Jewish family.

  • @chiron14pl
    @chiron14pl4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. I enjoy genealogy as a hobby and have a lot of stories about various of my ancestors, as well as some frustrating end points that I haven't found the parents or stories for them. But most lines I've traced back to the 18th century, a couple to the 17th century.

  • @AuntieJensFamilyTrees
    @AuntieJensFamilyTrees4 жыл бұрын

    Loved your video! So informative and interesting!

  • @saturnproductions1827
    @saturnproductions18274 жыл бұрын

    My great-grandfather was in the polish army during WWII

  • @lightyagami3492

    @lightyagami3492

    4 жыл бұрын

    Either your very young or he was an old man in WW2

  • @ozymandiaspbs

    @ozymandiaspbs

    3 жыл бұрын

    I do not have any Polish but a friend does (he is 1/2 Polish, 1/2 Italian), so I did a little research for him. Wow, Poland's Hassar cavalary was AMAZING!! My friend was astounded by the information I found about his family history.

  • @ivylasangrienta6093
    @ivylasangrienta60934 жыл бұрын

    There are no migration stories in my family tree. I've traced most lines back to the 1750ish and they've all been born, lived and died in a small area in northern Finland. My DNA came back to 97.6% Finnish. The only outlier was a distant indigenous ancestor on my mother's side. So boring!

  • @FaaduProductions

    @FaaduProductions

    4 жыл бұрын

    Indigenous to where?

  • @blitzkrieg2928

    @blitzkrieg2928

    4 жыл бұрын

    oi perkele

  • @greatwolf5372

    @greatwolf5372

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@FaaduProductions Malawi

  • @TrollsFormers05

    @TrollsFormers05

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why boring? Having roots is just as cool as having relatives from different places

  • @enqrbit

    @enqrbit

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@FaaduProductions Northern Finland(the Sami people)

  • @-gemberkoekje-5547
    @-gemberkoekje-55474 жыл бұрын

    Wow, it's so cool you're related to the Halifax explosion!!!

  • @shaolindreams
    @shaolindreams4 жыл бұрын

    You have an interesting mix.. I haven't got higher than my Greek fathers side yet.. and i've traced some my Polish mothers side even though that's quite hard to do.. and apparently we have a mix of German through both her grandparents. One of my great grandfathers was called Janik and we can trace that line back to the 1700s. History, Anthropology and Genealogy fascinate me so much.

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o4 жыл бұрын

    My family has traced back our roots to about 900 AD.

  • @Lord_Raymund

    @Lord_Raymund

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not that it is a competion or anything but i can trace my roots back another 200 year :P

  • @bilfbilfbilf

    @bilfbilfbilf

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Lord_Raymund sorry that it's been multiple months, but how did you find all that out. In extremely interested in creating a family tree and I want to go as far back as possible

  • @jacobhopkins32
    @jacobhopkins324 жыл бұрын

    Is there a way I can find my family tree?

  • @Filip-uw9jp

    @Filip-uw9jp

    4 жыл бұрын

    You have to make one

  • @lozpio

    @lozpio

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jacob Hopkins very simple, especially with a last name such as yours. Contact me for info about this

  • @nirutivan9811
    @nirutivan98114 жыл бұрын

    Interesting video. I couldn’t tell as much about immigration in my family. On my paternal line my great great great great grandfather moved into the house I still live in and my family name originates from a village close to where I live now. Only my mothers paternal grandfather moved here from northern Germany. He came here as a journeyman and stayed because he fell in love (and a funny coincidence: he came from Lüneburg, the german city Lunenburg in Nova Scotia got the name from) All the other Ancestors I know about were Swiss.

  • @TheMarslMcFly
    @TheMarslMcFly4 жыл бұрын

    That's super interesting. I'm german and our family lived here for pretty much ever as far as I know. I only know through narratives that my maternal grandmother came here from prussia, I guess around WW2, and one of my paternal ancestors probably came here from Austria. Now I want to know more about that. :D

  • @mattynewham1125
    @mattynewham11254 жыл бұрын

    my family been here since 1735

  • @royyark2896

    @royyark2896

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bruh my family isn’t even in America, I’m not even in America

  • @williamf4544

    @williamf4544

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now thats just laziness

  • @Bluey-jf8fc
    @Bluey-jf8fc4 жыл бұрын

    I’m related to Alfred Heckmann a nazi pilot

  • @JastwatchingYT

    @JastwatchingYT

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's fine he might not have been a n actual Nazi he just might have needed to act like it so Hitler and Himmler wouldn't sent him off to the death row

  • @Dragonite43
    @Dragonite434 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting a video about Germany, as my ancestors came from the German States in the middle 1800s to the USA.

  • @mackiemae2002
    @mackiemae20024 жыл бұрын

    That's so cool you have this information about your family tree

  • @user-cb9ys1iy6y
    @user-cb9ys1iy6y4 жыл бұрын

    First comment in this video

  • @user-yp7oz8xl8u

    @user-yp7oz8xl8u

    4 жыл бұрын

    No video 10millon subs nice

  • @theheadlionenglish8213

    @theheadlionenglish8213

    4 жыл бұрын

    4

  • @britishchinese8973

    @britishchinese8973

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @helloismehihihihiih7581

    @helloismehihihihiih7581

    4 жыл бұрын

    Man have lots account

  • @unknownkid6202

    @unknownkid6202

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not bad

  • @Alexander-gq4lz
    @Alexander-gq4lz4 жыл бұрын

    My great great grandmother was called Duus and was born to Christian Duus who was born in 1849. He was born as the heir to an estate in Schleswig, the part that is now Denmark today - and also then. For a time at least. In 1864 the Germans invaded Schleswig-Holstein, and all estates were given to Germans. This made my family move to Aarhus, Denmark, where Christian Duus grew up and opened a pub where he worked. The rest of my family are almost entirely from the Aarhus area, making it one particular historical event that made my great great grandmother meet my great great grandfather and by extension creating me. These type of family stories are some of the most interesting, if you ask me!

  • @quinnjohnson9750
    @quinnjohnson97504 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video, just yesterday we found my mother's genology book and it was a treat. From my mother's side they immigrated as German Jews sometime around the 1640s and later on in the 1720s they became Mennonite's until a group split off and came Midwest and broke off their Mennonite heritage. My fathers side is fuzzy and unknown, we know its French and Cherokee *we have jokes about how that connection was made ;)* and we know they eventually settled in Oklahoma. My mother's sides is well documented and plan to read up more in it soon but the real mystery is my father's side, we know so little about it and a year ago we found out the current las name isn't the original but we had a more fancy French name and it got changed due to a series of adoptions. As a person who loves history my ultimate dream is to build up a family free from both sides of the family and see if there are other ethnic groups in the bloodline asides from Hebrew, German, French and Cherokee.

  • @willardaustria
    @willardaustria4 жыл бұрын

    That was highly interesting, thank you!

  • @PresidentWallace
    @PresidentWallace4 жыл бұрын

    you're someone important and special to us and to your family :)

  • @leahwilton785
    @leahwilton7854 жыл бұрын

    Wow! The Acaidian history was a fun little flash back to middle school history that I wasn't expecting here. As someone from Eastern Canada, much of my personal ancestry was on the opposite side as yours; the French. They didn't manage to kick us all out! Hahah

  • @r302112
    @r3021124 жыл бұрын

    Such a great channel keep up the good work

  • @savvyadam8479
    @savvyadam84793 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from another Nova Scotia. Very cool your family is from Tancook Island This video gave me all the feel as it mostly focused on Nova Scotia :D

  • @sufwanmughul4602
    @sufwanmughul46024 жыл бұрын

    Wow, your family history is amazing, the farthest back my family history goes is 6 generations I know the names but not the stories and it's difficult to do further research when my family lived in a village and only kept oral records of their history. However, I've started compiling it in a written form so hopefully one of my descendants in a few generations will have a rich history

  • @ManhaJSalafee

    @ManhaJSalafee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me also. Work on it. You can in sha Allah. I'm very interested in family history reacharch . You can search old documents of you frofathers land from land office

  • @ELee-zv5ud

    @ELee-zv5ud

    4 жыл бұрын

    You could supplement it with the history of the different eras in that area. While they may or may not show up in the history bu tthey will have lived through whatever the events were.

  • @EJJohnson-cj4qn
    @EJJohnson-cj4qn4 жыл бұрын

    So interesting. I love this series.

  • @sarah4699
    @sarah46994 жыл бұрын

    As a Cajun, I didn't expect this video to include le Grande Derangement. Like you said, we're all connected! Bonjour from Louisiana!

  • @wanderingrandomer
    @wanderingrandomer4 жыл бұрын

    My aunt (who emigrated to America) recently went on a genealogy hunt and sent me a copy of her findings. I really should try and get in touch with some 2nd cousins.