As someone who does papermaking, serious respect for them being able to preserve so much paper in such a hot, humid environment.

@user-vf3cb7vk8z

5 жыл бұрын

@@9451085447 That's not even right. Don't correct people when you have no idea what you're talking about.

@rockyjumper1165

5 жыл бұрын

JadeToniRitsa L as a Indian your kind of confused India’s climate is really diverse it’s usually not even hot until the summer to be honest

@awesomevideo5525

5 жыл бұрын

Lol haridwar is in Himalaya, it's spines chilling cold ❄.

@sandeepchetia6200

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-vf3cb7vk8z It's you who should shut up.

@somethingsomethingsomethingg

4 жыл бұрын

@@sandeepchetia6200 They're right.. The weather isn't extremely hot and humid in Haridwar but it cannot be said as cool either. Even in october temperature goes well above 25℃, let alone summer days.

Why am i not surprised that the biggest handwritten family tree would be in *India*

@SkaYouth

5 жыл бұрын

i actually suprised. i thought china or japan would be the winner but now that i think about it this make sense considering how india still have sect tradition in them.

@TheShuryansh

5 жыл бұрын

Lol true

@ansh6370

5 жыл бұрын

Be happy that it's not written by your rival, Hitler.

@padmabalaji9283

5 жыл бұрын

cuz we're awesome *dramatic hair flip*

@NoboPenguin

5 жыл бұрын

China does have large family trees as well. This is more like a collection of family trees instead of just being the family tree originated from 1 ancestor. The family tree of the famous philosopher Confucius in China dated back to 500 BC and includes names of 2 million descendants and over 70+ generations.

Hey mom, i wanna marry the girl i met there somewhere. Mom: Look at book 472, page 4629 she is the grand daughter of your great great great great great great great great grandfather

@artemtsarevskiy2785

3 жыл бұрын

haha

@dukethotness

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much that's how it is. We follow a 'Gotra' meaning family tree. People with matching Gotra can't marry as it will be incest.

@aniruddhsingh4169

3 жыл бұрын

Well , we can marry girls seven generations apart from father's side and 5 generations from mothers side.

@geethikas.pradeep8931

3 жыл бұрын

The girl actually doesn't exist anymore even if you want to marry.

@dolanpanda6851

3 жыл бұрын

@@aniruddhsingh4169 not if she has same gotra as yours

I would love to have a family tree documented that well.

@insaneoyster9053

5 жыл бұрын

Why are you obsessed with these guys’d?

@Ju-lj5ff

5 жыл бұрын

Have you tried to do yours ? Depending on the country you live in and where your ancestors came from it can be "easy" !

@MoejiiOsmanTV

5 жыл бұрын

The dirtiest river in the world the Ganges... They put poop and piss in there they even put dead bodies that are rotting in that river. Disgusting

@josephkoester3217

5 жыл бұрын

There are websites that can help a lot! Like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org

@jomz6164

5 жыл бұрын

Same because my family tree looks like a fat cat

Subtitles are wrong... I think they meant 2000 years old, not 200 years old

@ice_wallow_come1813

4 жыл бұрын

according to Anurag Kuradia (also in the comments here): 1:23 he did not said 200 years old instead he said since the use of the "bhoj patra". And "bhoj patra" means birch leaf, which is used before the invention of paper. So according to my forefathers , this record is 900 + years old. I have visited this place 2 times with my whole family ( with people in our family tree with whom i have never met) .. on the dead of my grandfather and grandmother for religious procedure and to update the record. And believe me they can find the record of any family within minutes which contain 7- 10 or more generations data and some records are dated back to 1100AD. www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/India,_Hindu_Pilgrimage_Records_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)

@Trout-Anator

4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@varungambhir3403

4 жыл бұрын

DHAN PUBG aryans migrated to India in 2000 BC, over 4000 years ago. These records go back around 1000 yeaes

@anitaa5514

4 жыл бұрын

Yup it's 2000

@zephyr1327

3 жыл бұрын

DHAN PUBG aryans are myths you idiot and yes Indians were living living in India at that time tf?

These priests come every twelve years in our house to get updated and also tells us who were are forefathers and what did they do. It is really amazing to hear when they come. And plus the one who came told me about 10 of generations of my family and thier jobs and where they lived. It was amazing to know that we were originally from Afghanistan from where we ran away to gujarat and maharashtra to escape the violence of new rulers. It happened 1000s of years ago.. Even when there was no writing, these important historical events were remembered and passed from father to sons of these priests. But sadly due to urban life people have losing interest about who were their forefathers. Also these priests have started doing other jobs as there is not enough money in it. I hope it get digitalised soon, not only in Haridwar but whole of India have these people.

@padmabalaji9283

5 жыл бұрын

Shoham Das wtf?

@kryptomaniac6517

5 жыл бұрын

@@shohamdas means?

@Genericperson658

5 жыл бұрын

Kryptonizm means he’s mad

@sunny9895

5 жыл бұрын

What is your surname/last name. It would be interesting to know.

@tihamah4362

3 жыл бұрын

Which state are you from??

Teacher :" Draw your family trees" *I have a family Forest"

@Sam-vz8gn

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@nibeditapradhan4630

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@nenengbinigobisak413

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@hamnamalik6436

3 жыл бұрын

😂😁😂

@soamics4450

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Being Jamaican seeing this brought tears to my eyes. As the descendant of former slaves, I can only dream of having this kind of information. Sure, I can do one of those ancestry tests and get a questionably accurate idea of where my ancestors came from. However, the lost ability to attach names to my genealogy (past my great grandparents) is irreplaceable.

@az397

4 жыл бұрын

Same I'm from martinique and my maternal great grandfather was adopted in St Lucia so I have no idea

@pierresursock6000

4 жыл бұрын

well at least you have some information about your family in the last century.. think about those who come from countries where there are no records at all

@rosemariewildflower1

4 жыл бұрын

@@pierresursock6000 You missed my point. Even in the least developed nations, people are aware of the last couple generations of their family through oral histories. What I would love to have is a detailed written family tree as extensive as what was shown is this video. It's not about comparing struggles, just expressing a desire to know more about my lineage.

@pierresursock6000

4 жыл бұрын

rosemariewildflower1 I understand. Aren't there ways to trace your family history by knowing what tribe your african ancestors were from? Also, those indian records aren't as detailed as they say in the video, they rarely have the exact dates... European records are much better

@swatir.567

3 жыл бұрын

It's similar for Indians who are untouchables. Untouchables would have obviously not been allowed to do this course. Untouchables of India were not seen equal to human beings. They were not allowed to drink water from common ponds even. Because they were not human to the upper castes around them. It's similar here in india. The suppression of native indians by the Aryans. Not many people know of that

I am a statistics student and I can call tell you that this man can do a better job than I ever can.

@kuldeeps90

3 жыл бұрын

I am a Core Control system Programmer who takes care of his massive codes and algorithms, so i can assure you they are at Boss level, Once i was in India and met them, i felt insignificant

@preke953

3 жыл бұрын

@I Need The Memes can I enroll?

@Aryanthakur-yt9bc

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude just give teach them computer and they'll start a million dollar company by selling your family tree info. How cool that sounds

We have our family tree for 10 generations, till the time Christians missionaries drove us out of Goa during Inquisition

@illusoryme

3 жыл бұрын

How the hell are you verified when you have 36 subs

@GeeTransit

3 жыл бұрын

@@illusoryme that moment when he has 32 subs now

@arghya4NE

3 жыл бұрын

YT Staff maybe ?

@harishdev1990

3 жыл бұрын

My Mom said the same, my ancestors had to move due to goan inqisition and families have scattered everywhere. Konkani we speak matches mostly with Goan style.

@KAlpha09

3 жыл бұрын

Ganesh Nayak Us too, our ancestors fled Goa to escape atrocities by the Portuguese. I have been trying hard to trace back our lineage which ends abruptly. What’s worse is none of our current generation is educated about large scale persecution done by the Portuguese and quietly swept under the carpet.

India is such an incredible country!!!love from Russia❤️

@gigachad6844

3 жыл бұрын

Russia ❤️ India

@Kalpanapardhi1

3 жыл бұрын

I love Russia too because of its music

@wiwitheartist5406

3 жыл бұрын

ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀᴜssɪᴀ ғʀᴏᴍ ɪɴᴅɪᴀ ❤❤

@lakshyapatel9349

3 жыл бұрын

Love back from India❤️

@swetapandey1449

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kalpanapardhi1 same here!! Russian music😍🔥

200 years? I've been there and they had over 30 generations recorded in their books!

@learnology6742

3 жыл бұрын

even on the leafs............. and these records are older than islam

@Asterite

3 жыл бұрын

@The Sun how did it get destroyed exactly?

@VivekSingh-ts1ec

3 жыл бұрын

@@learnology6742 😂😂 this was funny man

@gracie5463

3 жыл бұрын

They meant 2,000 years.

@theelilac113

3 жыл бұрын

900+

Back in 2007 one of these Brahmin Priest visited my Parents home, Fortunately i was in India back then. I never knew about this thing and it was astonishing event, My Father gave them Clothes Money and showed his respect to doing this great job. They bought only one book containing past 200 years only (they had 25 of them for our family in their work place) I traced Traces upto my Great Great Grandfathers and family branches, Next time i will go to India i will give them a visit them and try to Draft a family tree for atleast 100 past generations it will be a mammoth task but i will do that. Also i will support them, indeed they are doing great job by documenting all these things, A real service to community.

@theriam6281

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II hey id would like to know something about your ancestry... Your mom and dad, they were cousins right?

@kuldeeps90

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II Are you so low iq? What it has to do with your Islam? what was the relation ? Yes i know the Rate of Reproduction for Muslims in India is too too high and they will become majority thanks for reminding us and last I AM AN AMERICAN (Indian Origin)

@palaksingh1777

3 жыл бұрын

Sultan Abdulhameed II Da faq is wrong with u

@sarathkumarr1997

3 жыл бұрын

@@kuldeeps90 They won't wait for the population bill their work of marrying 3-4 wives and producing 10-12 kids will be over

@vve2059

3 жыл бұрын

Our ancestors were really ahead of their times. It's a proud moment standing by the civilizational achievement

I want to digitize this so bad. don’t want it to be lost.

@god5535

3 жыл бұрын

All it takes is one fire...huh?

@MinMin-oe5od

3 жыл бұрын

@@god5535 well not really tho... Since family's come here take their family tree back home. And I'm sure they have thought about the fire situation and have a different solution or something.

@dukethotness

3 жыл бұрын

They keep on renewing the eroded ones

@Professor91811

3 жыл бұрын

They do give the digitized form of family tree these days. My friend got one and was shocked to know that 20 generations ago a man migrated from Russia started his family.

@shivankursharma7999

3 жыл бұрын

@@Professor91811 oh... That's really shocking... Did he get to know frm which place in Russia that man was..??

It'd be cool if they digitalized this information and made it public access and searchable. Anyone could search for their family name and uncover centuries worth of family history. Like 23 and Me, but way more intimate and humanized.

@CAP753

5 жыл бұрын

The younger generation of Pandas,as they are called, are digitallizing but the work is so enormous that all the information just can't be processed.On a rainy morning I remember I performed the last rites of my mother and recorded in my own hand the details for my offsprings duely signing with date and time.Every family has its own priest and the whole thing is so articulate and organized that it blows your mind.

@rajatranjan5565

5 жыл бұрын

@@CAP753 Are these records available for all castes or for the 'upper castes' only?

@Sophie-mb7mg

5 жыл бұрын

I agree digitizing it would help in some ways, but I think there's something very special in making the pilgrimage to there then making the records

@kierarque5535

5 жыл бұрын

There's actually a site for that. www.familysearch.org I've been using it as I work on my family tree. Very helpful and lots of new features like adding memories such as pictures, documents and stories.

@davidb5205

5 жыл бұрын

@@kierarque5535 - I've browsed that website; it's useful for collecting everything in one place. But you still need _access_ to those documents in the first place. What I meant is that these specific written records should be searchable. My family is from Haiti and I thought it was impossible for me to discover my family history. Turns out, a Haitian geneology organization had meticulously digitized the birth/death records of thousands of family names, even those like my family, who weren't part of some well-known economic/political/military elite. I accessed it for a small fee. It's super helpful when filling out your family tree.

Hindu authorities should fund to digitise the records, and keep it at safe place. The records should be updated on paper and computer both. And those records should be handled safely, it's very precious

@HobbyOrganist

3 жыл бұрын

They cant even fund cleaning up the RIVER of the billion gallons a day of raw sewage and chemicals going into it a day!

@abhimanyujha5550

3 жыл бұрын

@@HobbyOrganist lol that thing stopped way back now the cleaning is going on

@howto6433

3 жыл бұрын

We will become anti muslim after that according to some muslim

@RakeshRaj-wf1jb

3 жыл бұрын

TBH...People are lazy

@Amuneh

2 жыл бұрын

They've begun digitization as of recent apparently, i only came across a news article, but it's probably ONE Pandit who's begun doing that, it's gonna be a long way but at least it's gonna happen

On my father’s side we have a family tree that is 1400 years old, the first name is that of a Roman praefectus in the region of actual Tuscany. The oldest paper is from the XIVth century. The first born keeps the records, the siblings are given copies.

@ImranAli-gy1kj

3 жыл бұрын

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

@j.4553

3 жыл бұрын

Yooo that’s sick! I wish my family knew smthng about our ancestors, the farthest I could dig back was my dad’s grandma

@mohitchoudhary5937

3 жыл бұрын

@@j.4553 you can also find your ancestors. You just need to tell them your last Hindu grandfather name his village and gotra. If you are a Jat as your surname is Bajwa then you çan contact Bajwa of India they will find.

@AnTran-gp9ws

3 жыл бұрын

So you’re telling us you’re the descendant of a Roman military commander in Tuscany ? Impressive what are you family social class now ?

@kakalimukherjee3297

2 жыл бұрын

simply mind-blowing

I think my forefathers converted to islam 500 years ago . I desperately want to know about my forfathers in that book.

@vibhashukla2796

5 жыл бұрын

If u go n search there with proper address etc u may find

@lightndark3817

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, those records have preserved even lineage of converts. Even those ,who now reside in Pakistan & are Muslims for generations have their records preserved there

@vibhashukla2796

5 жыл бұрын

@Lingo vi no All caste have their records keeper

@moviemania6142

5 жыл бұрын

Every born child is islam, even Adam is islam the first man in the world. People keep doing something weird and believe it. You should proud of Islam

@moviemania6142

5 жыл бұрын

@@vibhashukla2796 Read your own book before judge. You still don't understand Wedha. When Wedha tells do not worshiping things, why are you still worshiping?

This story made my day!! Oh Indians you guys are so cool!

@ZenithSSX

5 жыл бұрын

The Whole world is a freaking family we all are in on way or another a Hindu-Buddhist at the core. Visit Kumbh and get your legacy written for the coming generations too.

@mariakhan6090

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenithSSX lol are you serious 😂🤣

@mariakhan6090

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZenithSSX if you wanna go to the roots, then the whole world belongs to the family of Adam and Eve, so, everyone in the world is an Abrahamaic faith believer in its core 🤣 how about you join Christianity, Judaism or Islam ? 😂🤣

@oooo-jr9cv

4 жыл бұрын

@@mariakhan6090 Can you tell mosquitoes family tree and where it belongs from ?? 😊😊 waiting for reply.........

@mariakhan6090

4 жыл бұрын

@@oooo-jr9cv sure, those mosquitoes came into being from the stagnant pool of humour you hold in your mind

Records are over 900 years. Maintained since before paper.

@reemamathew2564

5 жыл бұрын

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@AmongUs-mn6gu

3 жыл бұрын

Yes before paper it was on bhoj patra which means birch leaf. This bit was missed out in the translation and feels bad for the foreigner who would wonder about this too.

Imagine how cramped your hands would get after writing it tho

@femywemy

5 жыл бұрын

they would be dead lmao

@anshluthra941

5 жыл бұрын

Ive been there once about 5 years ago. I went there because my grandma had passed away, we had to put her ashes in the ganges river. I remember sitting in a room where a pandit had a huge roll of paper, like in the video, where he wrote down details about her death and a lot more stuff. It seemed very interesting back then too.

@bluepearl7096

5 жыл бұрын

Just flipping too a clear page would hurt

@hahaha7834

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine getting one mistake

@najmaht.a.1314

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA “oh fUdge a typo”

This in my opinion is the most informative and inspiring channel on You tube, the places you go are amazing.

@codyannkay844

5 жыл бұрын

Blaine Charlie for real tho

@laytonn1160

5 жыл бұрын

It’s gets a lot of funding because it’s a cnn owned company

@cursextreme

5 жыл бұрын

yeah this channel is amazing, follow this channel before reach 1m subs, surprised now is already almost 3m subs

@PigStuffy

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed! They do a lot of original things a lot of other KZread channels haven't touched

A charity should fund them so that they can get the proper equipment to preserve the datings!

@Ms-ux8rb

5 жыл бұрын

Thy are well equipped with traditional ways of preserving things for more than 800-1200yrs. I've visited my self to see my family records

@Sanjeet_28

5 жыл бұрын

kho They have money for maintaining them

@Ms-ux8rb

5 жыл бұрын

@Ch Vo Yes, found abt my great great grandfather and after them who visited. Saw my 766 years family tree

@VillyP

5 жыл бұрын

I mean... Thats nice thought and all but they have been preserving them for over 200 years using basic equipment. Seems just fine!

@d.leonanderson5317

5 жыл бұрын

narancia dies in part 5

When we lost our grandmother, our family went to haridwar for the rituals and there we came to know about our ancestors as back as 1600 AD, their origin, where they migrated from, dates of whenever they visited ganga, etc.

@pranjal8912

3 жыл бұрын

Now visit the place they migrated from the panditji there will hv older records or pay the panditji an advance in Haridwar he will get u a copy instead through his contacts.

After my grandpa expired my father went to them. They have around 5 centuries data of our gens preserved. We were earlier living in pakistan sialkot then migrated to himachal now delhi

@sanyajaswal9129

3 жыл бұрын

@@aman.aman.aman.3 ig no.. There are still jaswals in pakistan.. either suffering converted or dead. U search jaswal... some pakistani musician comes up. So no... not all community migerated. We are chandravanshi rajputs... many had lots of wealth, some though situations will get better so there's no point of leaving, some burried gold under their houses hoping to return 1 day(my family is one of those)... well that never happened. Some workers of our family and relatives of my maternal nd paternal side stayed there...and unfortunately we never heard from them after partition Only 30k jaswals are there in india. Found in delhi himachal and bit in punjab.

@pranjal8912

3 жыл бұрын

@@sanyajaswal9129 Ask the few Brahmins in pakistan they will hv ur record

@naraindassmittal5747

2 жыл бұрын

So cool!

@sharkhunt2317

2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@rockstatus2457

2 жыл бұрын

@@pranjal8912 are vaha un jihadiyo ne sab kuch khatam kr diya

I recently visited that place and discovered an ancestor of mine who had visited the area back in the 18th century to repent for his sins. Plus i discovered my ancestors came from present day Myanmar and Bangladesh and fled religious persecution to settle in India

@user-ml1mr1ls2y

3 жыл бұрын

That means you r probably a Naga or a Khasi , am i right?.

@aditya9615

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ml1mr1ls2y khasi arya is from central asia.

Imagine having to make a family tree for school and it's this one

Man change your translator He she is cancelling out some of the most important words And he didn’t say it was started near 200 year he said bhoj patra , which means birch leaf. Birch leaf was used before invention of paper So this is really really older than that atleast a 1000 yr old system

@anilpratap6952

3 жыл бұрын

It's not leaf though. It's made of bark of the HImalayan birch tree. But what you said about the translation is true.

@chewinggum5550

3 жыл бұрын

900+ years

This is equal to my holiday homework

@paxonite-7bd5

5 жыл бұрын

You are qualified to work here

I'm from South-west India (South Maharashtra) Here our family records kept by *HELAVI community from Karnataka* ..! They have my family records from 600AD onwards! These people every year visits our houses with their bull & recite all our history in poetic form! They have distrubuted villages among themselves! It's so interesting that we don't have to go to them to register but they themselves come to Maharashtra from Karnataka to record next generations information!!😅 We gift them clothes, money, sometimes small jewellery, food etc!! Such good tradition of our Hindu culture!😊 Thanks to them I know who was my forefathers in 600 AD & what was their profession, their name, etc!!

@vijayapawar1126

5 ай бұрын

Aapla phone number milu shakel ky

I saw the thumbnail and said to myself - This has to be India!!

This is Beautiful. Indian Govt should immediately digitize these precious scriptures.

@pranjal8912

3 жыл бұрын

Keep those jokers away one look at ASI managed monuments and u know what calibre these Indian govts possess. Our heritage should be protected by communities here hindu not by the state.

My family has written history of more then last 2500 years. Literally even before king Vikram. This is nothing new . There are thousands of family having this.

@supriyam6896

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing 2500 years. You are so lucky. Do you mind me asking, where are you from? I am just wondering if they would also have records about south Indians. In the olden days, it would have been a Herculean task for my ancestors to visit Haridwar at all so, I doubt they would have any records of my family.

@pranavpatel3576

3 жыл бұрын

@@supriyam6896 I am from Gujarat. We do have thousands of families which have their hundreds of years history written. That's what kuldevi or kuldevta is for. That's where your family priest register your ancestry everytime someone dies or someone marries or someone born. There is no need to visit haridwar. This is done at your kuldevi or devta temple by your family priest. This was usually done to keep track of gene pool so nobody accidently marries someone related to last 7 generations. It's a tradition which people forgot. Even my family actually lost all the books but one day when we were renovating our old ancestral house we found it inside the wall, an entire chambe full of last 2000 years history and names. Rest we already had.

@supriyam6896

3 жыл бұрын

@@pranavpatel3576 That is so amazing that you accidentally found the records. I have to ask my parents and grandparents if any priest is keeping our records. Thank you for the reply :)

@pranavpatel3576

3 жыл бұрын

@@supriyam6896 yup. But doesn't help much if others didn't keep their records. The main purpose was to keep track of every family's gene pool so tracking can be done while arranging marriage.

@supriyam6896

3 жыл бұрын

@@pranavpatel3576 True. It is so sad that this beautiful tradition is lost in many places.

My dads side of the family has a family bible that’s been around since the 1750s. It has birth records and names in it and we consider that to be the beginning of our family history.

It's traditions like these that us Americans just don't have and can't fathom. We have trouble tracing back any traditions a few decades old never mind something that's hundreds of years old. What's sad is doesn't even seem like we try to even start one for our future generations our civilization changes so fast now that just a few decades go by and we can't even recognize or remember what the past was like.

@astrodreamer946

5 жыл бұрын

I hardly know very little about my lineage. I can tell you practically anything about my parents lives, but my extended family is a mystery to me. I know their nationalities and their occupations, but nothing about their lives. Hardly knew my grandparents. Never met my great grandparents. It bothers me that I'll never know them as they were when they were alive, and that's something I've come to live with. We've detached ourselves from one side of the family because they're literally insane. The other side is halfway across the world. It saddens me to not know more. I one day plan to do a massive research project to find as much information on both sides of my family as possible. Some documents will be easy to find, others not so much. It may be difficult, but I'm up for the challenge. I envy this list of family knowledge that the Indians possess, because I'll never have a reference like that. I'm sure as hell going to try to make one though.

@Sevenigma777

5 жыл бұрын

@@astrodreamer946 same for me and many others. I don't know many people who even know their great grand parents names. Then there's other families that know the names of family members going back hundreds of years. I think if we took interest in our ancestors it would create a stronger sense of family and help us connect better with strangers as well because the farther you go back more interconnected we become.

@joeschmoe13593

5 жыл бұрын

The problem with starting a family tree is that it requires intense documentation while also being able to identify and record family members easily. This is a problem since many Americans are descended from immigrants (such as Italians and Irish who came over during the industrial revolution) who either did not have the time,money or experience to document their lineage or couldn't keep in touch with family back from where they came from. This problem is even worse for African Americans since most slave ships kept only the barest of details on where slaves where taken in from. America is also such an incredibly young country compared to areas such as India and europe. In the video, the people who come to visit the river Ganges are probably preceded by who knows how many generations coming to the exact same spot before them.

@se9706

5 жыл бұрын

Same. As a Japanese American the farthest I can trace my lineage is when my great great grandfather came to America. Anything beyond that is a mystery and from what I heard trying to obtain any family lineage information in Japan is really difficult if you're not a Japanese citizen. And I can only imagine how horrendous and difficult it can be for other people to try track down their lineage

@Sophie-mb7mg

5 жыл бұрын

@@bats9218 well that's pretty sad. Maybe they should

Magical land.. India 👍❤️ Greetings from Indianized archipelago country

@jimmylives

5 жыл бұрын

Indonesia an islamic sharia following country.

@prateeksharma6706

Жыл бұрын

Indonesia 😀

I love my hindu culture.🕉️

@thepriestofvaranasi

3 жыл бұрын

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My family record is nearly 3000 year old....After this I think after so many natural calamity, British rule ,Mugal rule who tried to destroy Hindu religion how they manage to do that....

@abhaysenpai8168

3 жыл бұрын

Really ?

@abhaysenpai8168

3 жыл бұрын

I m curious could you send me the oldest name of your ancestor

The video should have been a minute or two longer so that viewer can better be explained what exactly the records are for. The ending was quite abrupt.

I am Swedish but I would be furious if anything happend to the over 900+ of detailed ancestral records.

Now i can proudly say I know my lineage . Well I know the last 8 - 9 generations but last time I went to haridwar i was stunned by how much I even don’t know about my family. I always thought i m North Indian but in fact my ancestors came bengal .

Not as long as this but we got one of ours that goes back to king sejong, a korean emperor who invented korean language. Only problem is no one in our family can read it because it's in old old chinese

@rankingresearchdata

3 жыл бұрын

There are thousands of script and written system which can't read by anyone now because they are older than 3000 years

After watching this I asked my grandparents about this and I was shocked to know that the data of our family tree is also written there... Last time my grandparents went there to write the name of mother of my grandfather after her death... I was 11 yrs old when I went there. I am very curious to go there again...😊 Jai Ganga mata! 🙏

These sort family trees are common in Nepal too. We don't have pandas here, but they are documented. We update the genealogy with pandas while visiting India though. Most of us have 'vamsawali' - the book of vansa(family tree) . I am the 127th lineage from Rishi Atri as per my vamsawali. My 75th ancestor came to Nepal from Kannauj, and my 79th ancestor was the Royal priest of a small kingdom, because of which they gave us land as birta (gift) in a place called 'khatyadi'. So, we became Khatiwada from Upadhayaya. It's really awesome to know these things.

Ah!!! India such a wholesome video made my day ! I have visited india 2 times and the people are very helpful but this river is so yucky at banaras but at haridwar its very pure and icy. Butterchicken is 😋

So amazed how dedicated are they in preserving history...I hope that the records are stored in the best way possible

@shivamgautam949

2 жыл бұрын

They are that's why these records still exist well and un-damaged in Haridwar till date.

@rockstatus2457

2 жыл бұрын

@@shivamgautam949 isliye hm Indians ko apni identity pata h identity crisis se nhi pareshan h hm

This system is thousands years old not just 200 yrs.. I know my last 12 generation Grand-grand father..... Grandfathers names.. Even Lord Ram's earlier 63 ancestors and after then to today's 339th heir is also present in India and all over the world means this family tree lineage system is at least 10 thousands yrs old..

@viaaniswki3903

3 жыл бұрын

Saurav Sharma Doesn’t that also mean that Ramayana is real?

@walnut9472

3 жыл бұрын

@@viaaniswki3903 yes it means RAMAYANA is not Epic it's real

@abhimanyujha5550

3 жыл бұрын

@@viaaniswki3903 obviously its real and these islamists tried hard diminishing it but to no avail

@kamartaj3010

3 жыл бұрын

@PRAKHAR DUBEY do they maintain ancestry of low caste hindu? Bcz i m low caste and i want to know.

@prakhardubey2356

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamartaj3010 yes brother, if your ancestor might have visited that place, then you will get to know. By the way, I don't believe in caste.

I’m from a small town in rural America, and you could trace one side of my family on the width of a piece of paper🤣

@preke953

3 жыл бұрын

@MATHA NOSHTO-MAN sweet home alabama

@pickle6772

3 жыл бұрын

@@bea5365 good.

Subtitles: "Enlightening Music" Deaf people:"ohm, is that nirvana I see?"

"Sect of priests called pandits" Lol. Pandit is just preist in hindi!

@Sam-vz8gn

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. Pandit basically mean a person who has mastered something.

@shravangupta4828

3 жыл бұрын

@Rambo do you even know the difference between a pandit, purohit, poojari, brahman, bhikshuk, yogi and perhaps your favourite ' babaji' ?

I viewed my records when I was 16 years old. They inputted my father, his brother and us boys that went along. Along with other information. I wish I had a camera, because we saw the writing from my hundreds of years right in front of my eyes. I'm going to go next time and stay there. This time since I can read and understand Sanskrit and Hindi, I'll be better equipped at interpreting it.

@pranjal8912

3 жыл бұрын

@Tom Ss Ask any Panditji he will ask u about ur district, Ancestral village then another panditji who is in possession of Bahi-khatta of ur village will come and give u details amd if u want more older records give them an advance they will arrange that too I'm talking about 5th-6th century. And always remember pay them well some may be upfront and ask for it others don't and they don't lead such good lives so pay them well always.

People on the top of the tree are probably thinking: "No need to thank me"

These must be protected!!! They’re precious historical treasure.

This is India! Incredible and beautiful and warm India! Proud of being an INDIAN!!

Its accurate, my family has family tree records in haridwar,gangotri/badrinath/pehowa..

I've been there and discovered that I have ancestors who came down from Tibet and converted to Hinduism on my mother's side. They entered India/Nepal around 300 years ago and made sure to pay a visit there.

@kamartaj3010

3 жыл бұрын

@@aman.aman.aman.3 tibodo. I mean bodo tribe

Once I visited to Haridwar as a kid, and my dad met to the guy who keeps Papermaking for our family, he gave me the information from my dad to my 10 past generations. It was incredible the village I was born in, was established by one of our descendent back in year 1410. Its always great to know your roots.

My dad: that's the books I used to read

wonder how they are organized?

@zarathustra4649

5 жыл бұрын

Raj Singh there’s a history channel video for it on youtube

@anoop1629

5 жыл бұрын

@@zarathustra4649 Can you share the link, please?

@mohit5496

3 жыл бұрын

@Pavan Kumar exactly

@utkarsh3708

3 жыл бұрын

@@zarathustra4649 link please.

@richa9657

3 жыл бұрын

@@anoop1629kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKRs1qOiotXYe8Y.html here you go!

My father was astonished when he saw the record of his grandparents

I think I have an idea where the word 'pundit' comes from. Interesting.

@AS-yf4jr

5 жыл бұрын

BatAskal yes you are correct.

@buddhasdisciple4935

5 жыл бұрын

English is such a poor language, just 12,000 ORIGINAL words, it stole so many words from many languages where they spread their evil empire, and claimed these words as originating in their own lexicon (even Polish has 15,000 original words, Hindi from India has 30,000 - 40,000 original words)

@fitlit

5 жыл бұрын

@Lingo vi modern English is more or less made up of 'loan' words from every culture around the globe.

@maazsalah9701

5 жыл бұрын

@Lingo vi x

All of your videos are awesome!

Our ancestors were really ahead of their times. It's a proud moment standing by the civilizational achievement

I’m not even surprised that it’s in India

I know the names of my previous 6 generation..All thanks & Respect to all bhramins and their Bahi 🕉

I went to Haridwar and saw these maintained records, my great great great grandfather whose name I never heard went there so was everyone before him and after him. These are really treasures if you want to know about your lineage. Also only one pundit take record of your entire family no other pundit will create your record if you ask any shop about your pundit they will take you to him.

@akshhay

3 жыл бұрын

No, they actually distribute it & maintain copies of it but the main pothi is always with the main pandit

@kamartaj3010

3 жыл бұрын

Do they have records of lower caste or as well?

@crushforkatrina

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamartaj3010 do you think I am from upper class?

@crushforkatrina

3 жыл бұрын

@@kamartaj3010 honestly I don't know if you asked this question to show that there is a caste division in Holy rites or this is a genuine question. I didn't ask the pandit about it but according to me different pandits make record of different castes. You should ask this to your elder male family members cuz they must have gone there to do the 'ful' ceremony.

@sushantpandey897

3 жыл бұрын

@@crushforkatrina no caste is unrelated they use "gotra"

As similar to this there is also a group named"Jagaa" mainly they maintaines the record of the "Maheshwari" families from more than 1000 years ago ... After every 10years they update their data of all families with the profession and business records by roaming all the cities in the India and abroad where the Maheshwaris are fragmented...

We had a family tree book which starts from family members of 1840 but now it is not maintained because most New members moved to different cities in last 20-30 years. This tradition was widely followed by many families in village but now it's hard to maintain.

So who are they recording?

@graskok2863

3 жыл бұрын

Every time a family member dies some family members go there with all of his/her/there info and then they record it. So... Technically dead people

@mohit5496

3 жыл бұрын

@Tejas Misra you both are right but normally it happens when some family member die. My father told me we registered my grandpa name there when he passed away.

@kuldeeps90

3 жыл бұрын

Every family, I was able to find mine. such a great moment to read the details of past 100s generation yet i was exhausted reading past 10. lol

@amandeep9930

3 жыл бұрын

Haridwar is a very holi place in Hinduism. Everytime someone's family member dies the family of the person who died visits Haridwar.

@NeerajYadav-xy7tr

3 жыл бұрын

@Tsetsi There are recording the family tree. My name is there, my grandfather name is there and then his grandfather and then his grandfather for nearly 500-600 years maybe..... Each of my forefather's name is registered there.

We found our records till 300 AD ( even the priest was shocked ) more shockingly one of my ancestors were the king of a small territory in Punjab 800 yrs back for about 100 yrs. I took a DNA test and I found that I was 20 percent Greek ! Our family is purely based in India and that was quite shocking

@kamartaj3010

3 жыл бұрын

And u people call urself the children of IVC😂. Most uppercaste dont belong to this land they just migrate in and have no contribute in building IVC

@italianalcapone

2 жыл бұрын

@@kamartaj3010 ever heard of invasion of Greeks?? In 180 BC, the Indo-Greeks, invaded parts of northwest and northern India and ruled in the Punjab region And multiple more times his ancestors lived on the horder territory that's why he has Greek ancestry

@akshayhere

Жыл бұрын

@@kamartaj3010 Dude shut up. You clearly don't know history.

@prateeksharma6706

Жыл бұрын

@@kamartaj3010 ever heard of Alexander ( sikander)?

@prateeksharma6706

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating

This is simply amazing and beautiful. every effort needs to be made to preserve these records. As a descendant of indentured immigrants who left India for the Caribbean, I can't trace my family back more than 3 generations, no idea where we came from and the stories of our ancestors. Blessed are the people who have records over hundreds of years.

I love Geneology. I’ve only got my family tree to the 1700’s... this is so fascinating 😍

0:41 what is that guy doing getting the water out of his hair?😂😂

@hansolo3956

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@shrithanosmaharaj8679

3 жыл бұрын

He is taking a dip in river which is considered holy by hindus

@anvi3969

3 жыл бұрын

he is not getting water out of his head, thats a way of taking blessings from river ganga (seen as a holy/mother figure)

a family tree so big you'll swear all the papers used to write it on could make an actual tree

@vr9287

3 жыл бұрын

Well,it's not paper, it's bhoj patra or birch leaf they're writing o

@charteredprasad

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Beacuse you produce cricket team

@samsung123451

4 ай бұрын

People who slaughter animals for fun are talking about trees😂😂😂😂

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@thegem597

3 жыл бұрын

😅 Should have warned earlier..I am already scarred

@rohanrajeev81

3 жыл бұрын

Meri toh gaand hi phat gayiii

@bardum.4458

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II you are brainwashed buddy , do you know that ?

@arya1275

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II you know you are Hinduphobic I have read your many replies...

@sourav7162

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II stop hinduphobia

the description says "hundreds of millions each year" while the video says "hundreds of thousands" might wanna change that/clarify

Lol my family is literally just my mom and grandparents. Id kill for even a page of people.

@rozenstarzfallz

5 жыл бұрын

TheJewelTheory Unfortunately dna testing didn't exist it's just a toilet paper roll they don't list secret lovers births. Now Picture a man who can't get anyone pregnant he would use his own brother/stranger to impregnate his multiple wives or his concubines. then he registers those children under this toilet paper prehistoric system. these children in turn don't know & marry their own half siblings later on or they may marry their uncle who is a real father to them. Or a woman can fake a birth & steal her maids offspring. this should be called a census of countries not a family registry. Now if a baby is left abandoned somebody can claim their wife gave birth then that baby is under this registry later bathing next to his own real brother & wouldn't know it. or a switch at the maternity ward happens. then those same people use this registry not realising a switch occurred. this system check is outdated every should get tested to see belongs to wich family group.

@graskok2863

3 жыл бұрын

@@rozenstarzfallz ummm what?

@anvakathazit1102

3 жыл бұрын

@@rozenstarzfallz ...bro what? Chill

@rajanrao

3 жыл бұрын

@@rozenstarzfallz dude wth

@kuldeeps90

3 жыл бұрын

i was able to trace my past 10 generations and i was exhausted reading these scripts (not easy to read) and they told me you just able to drink a drop of ocean.

Wrong subtitles they showed 200 years in subtitles, but (bhojpatra) birch leaves used by ancient sages of Hinduism before invention of Paper. Even my family members traced ancestors list till 600 year back.

I love these kind of interesting stories!

Id love to have my family tree that big, i could sit and look at it for hours every day, learning about who your ancestors are and what they did is so interesting.

Let’s hope no one mistakenly throws a lit cigarette butt out in or around this building lol

@rahul114jaitly

3 жыл бұрын

O bhai mr. Panauti , aisa naa hi bol bhai

@theowleyes07

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II What that has to do with this. Like Parkinson why it is stigmatized. Talk this shit in Pakistan

@rahul114jaitly

3 жыл бұрын

@Sultan Abdulhameed II bhai maine jo bola uska iss baat se kya taaluk? Bimaari hai , kisi ko bhi ho sakti hai, thoda apne dimaag ka ilaaj karwaao pehle

@RanjithKumar-cu5qp

3 жыл бұрын

Now that it is known by many, it may happen

@Sam-vz8gn

3 жыл бұрын

The very thought of it scares me!😱

I remember getting mine written in when my grandparents died. I saw the names of 5 generations before me (they had older ones also). I felt really bad after seeing the condition of their house.

Respect to this tradition of preserving something like this

family records in good hands

This is cool. I hope they setup a way to preserve the older papers. I'm sure sitting on a shelf isn't good for them.

This is cool. I really have no idea about my ancestors before my great-grandma. Even her is a fade memory.

Wow, I love coming across videos like this

That is amazing! Love detailed family trees and stories. My grandfather has a zupu family tree book which dates back to a Chinese king, however, it only documents the males within the family. I’m not listed because I’m female from a daughter.

I thought the thumnail said: "the largest handwriting..."

I’ve been there a lot of times but 3 years back I actually found my ancestor’s names, hometown etc. It felt surreal and made me talk all philosophical on the way back lol. It was epic....especially when we got our names written and the fact that our next generations would come here although they’ll already know our names because of our social media activity

Nice ,, very very impressing ,,it’s happen only in India , Proud

Can you imagine the effort it would take to digitize this and convert it into a format that can be referenced? But it must be done, its the only way to preserve these family records.

My family has one of these too. Saw it when we went to Haridwar for my Grandmother's "Antim Sanskaar". Got to learn about my ancestors, what they did and also saw the names of my cousins. Wrote my name and purpose of visit too. Was very very cool. Though i was disappointed that now the original pandits have sold these to other pandits who use it to milk money. Also these are way older than 200 years. I saw one recording from 1500s in my family's manuscript.

@aman.aman.aman.3

3 жыл бұрын

//milk money// Do they charge for this? I heard that it was free & do they charge a lot of money?

@italianalcapone

2 жыл бұрын

@@aman.aman.aman.3 no bro it is cheap actually. And just think it's too hard to preserve them and give time in maintaining and searching them

Why no one talking about how hard it will be know our ancestors in that hand written book

@kalburry0954

Жыл бұрын

It is arranged properly and they know how to use it since childhood

Bruh props to these guys for spending so much time putting down these records, and preserving them.

To think they could keep the records in good condition and so perfectly arranged and organized before even electricity is crazy.

I first heard of this in the show, Who do you think you are. He visited the place as a child and he has brought his kids to have their name recorded like his ancestors before him. It was a great episode.

imagine theres one forgotten child and hes the antagonist of this family story

This is super cool, but I really hope they manage to digitalise it simply because if one thing goes wrong the whole thing is lost

This so heart warming and beautiful!!!