Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons - @Alfred the great

Hi Dennis,
I have always thought that Alfred the Great was well named.

Now that I know he is one of my ancestors, I am well pleased.

I have found huge amounts of information about King Alfred
and his work. He is an excellent choice for discussion.

Ethel Stanton from Florida

" Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo -Saxons ", is my 30th great grandfather !

He is also my 30th great grandfather. I love genealogy.

he is also my 30th great grandfather Theodore Howard Ray is my 12th cousin 6 times removed. Amelia Jennifer Pickens is my 13th cousin once removed Ethel Johanna Myers is my 12th cousin twice removed and Dennis maye is my 13th cousin once removed nice to meet you all

dennis - take what?? have you documented your line thoroughly all the way back to him? if not you cant make the claim. remi is right to remind us of checking links

Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is my 31st great grandfather.

According to Geni Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is my 32nd great grandfather.

Alfred is my 35th GGF.

I can recommend a book that, in a simple way, describe English history.

A Traveller´s History of England (Christopher Daniell & The Windrush Press Ltd)

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Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is my 32nd great grandfather.
Dennis Maye is my 20th cousin thrice removed.
Ethel Johanna Myers is my 21st cousin once removed.
Theodore Howard Ray is my 23rd cousin twice removed.
Amelia Jennifer Pickens is my 20th cousin thrice removed.
Shawna Marie McMillen is my 21st cousin twice removed.
Lars-Gunnar Fredriksson is my 14th cousin once removed.
Jason Scott Wills belong to my relatives via king Povodar from Portugal.
So I´ve foud Eero and Jarmo from other family trees, too.

With best wishes to everybody
Kalle

King Alfred is my 30th great-grandfather.

@Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons. Kallie how do you compute the cousins connections...does the site do it for you?

Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons
is my 29th great grandfather.

Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is my 31st great grandfather.

And Dennis maye , You are my 20th cousin twice removed.

.Alfred's my 31st great.

I went through my family tree to check the connections and it seemed feasible but I have never gotten beyondDennis McCarty so I was fascinated to see how this worked and all the connections. It amazed me when someone connected me to Mary Ball George Washington's wife. ( I had a good laugh) but this was mind blowing. Has genealogy connected so far that according to the write ups on Alfred the Great, we can connect all the way to ADAM!

There are (of course mythological) genealogies which purport to take people back to Adam, usually Welsh ones in my partial experience. Also to Thor, Wodin and other Norse gods. You ought to be able to find them on Geni. You can certainly find Gaia (goddess of the earth) who is unaccountably listed as deceased, although when I loked this morning even my tomatoes seemed to have survived the repeated and unprecedented thunder-storms which seem to be part of climate change here. Someone once even sent me a Geni profile of a horse (God knows how that got on Geni).

But the statisticians tell us that almost anyone with English ancestry is likely to be descended from Alfred the Great: indeed, almost anyone with Western European ancestry. Figure the chances. Your family tree may seem to be expanding exponentially. You have two parents, each of them have two, and if none of them have partners who are not related you get back to a potential ancestry which exceeds the present population of the world, let alone the population in (say) 1500.

What is actually happening is the opposite. In (say) 1400 the population of England was (I think) around 500,000 people, maybe less. The statisticians reckon that 80% of them have no living descendants. So (at a guess) at least 300 million people with known English ancestry must be descended from 100,000 people. For anyone born in 800 AD (only a bit before the time of Alfred the Great) virtually anyone who has living descendants is likely to be the ancestor of everyone in Western Europe. Of course not many of them are likely to have left any record.

The thing is to check the links. If they seem accurate to the wretched George Washington (who started a seven-years war with France, then led a rebellion against paying any contribution to the debt accumulated from the war, although I do concede he had some good points and one must make some allowances for the pain caused by his false teeth) then you can more or less trust the path back to the hypochandriac, if Great, ,Alfred.

Mark

Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is my 30th great grandfather.

George Washington, 1st President of the USA is your 7th cousin 9 times removed.

George Washington, 1st President of the USA is my 7th cousin 9 times removed.

Alfred the Great is my 30th great grandfather

Loretta Alexandra is my 17th cousin four times removed. ;-)

Alfred the Great my 34 th great grandfather

Nobody is George Washington's direct descendant - he shot blanks. (Ben Franklin, on the other hand.... heh heh heh!)

Yep, Geni alleges that Alfred is my 31st ggf too. (Probably several different ways, but they can only figure one at a time.)

Alfred the Great,King of the Anglo-Saxons is my 30th grt grandfather

Alfred the Great, is my 30th grandpa too...dear all cousins...we are really in family :)

Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons is your 30th great grandfather.
You
→ Klara Pauline Wolff Byberg Larsen
your mother → Julie Margrete Klausen Byberg
her mother → Claus Peter Wulff Jacobsen Jæger
her father → Jacob Clausen Jæger
his father → Else Thomasdtr. Svaboe
his mother → Thomas Davidsen Svaboe
her father → Mette Jensdatter Svaboe
his mother → Sophia Eriksdatter Blix
her mother → Erik Eriksson Blix
her father → Birgitte Lauritsdatter Arctander
his mother → Magdalena Sigurdsdatter Sigvardi Holck
her mother → Sigvard Amundsen Holck Smør
her father → Anna Ottesdatter Rømer
his mother → Otte Matsson Rømer, til Nidaros og Austråt
her father → Mads Jacobsson Rømer
his father → Elsebe Ottesdatter Rømer, til Austrått
his mother → Hjartrud Erlingsdatter
her mother → Elin Toresdatter
her mother → Ingebjørg Erlingsdatter Tornberg
her mother → Erling Alfson d.y. Tornberg, den yngre
her father → Ingeborg Bårdsdotter
his mother → Ragnhild Erlingsdatter
her mother → Erling Kvie på Kviden
her father → Viljalm Skinnare av Torgar
his father → Kjetil Krok
his father → Judith 'Fausta' de Flandre
his mother → Baldwin IV, count of Flanders
her father → Arnulf II the Young, count of Flanders
his father → Baldwin III, count of Flanders
his father → Arnulf I the Great, count of Flanders
his father → Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders
his mother → Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons
her father

Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons

He's my 29th great grandfather!

Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons is your 29th great grandfather.
You Kara Ann
→ Glenn Elmer Bowling
your father → Lawton Bowling
his father → John C. "Burrhead" Bowling
his father → Wright Bowling
his father → John Jack Bowling
his father → Sarah Bowling
his mother → Sarah Fugate
her mother → Hannah McCarty (Richardson)
her mother → Elizabeth Richardson
her mother → Barbara Aubrey
her mother → Elizabeth Aubrey / Awbery
her mother → Mary Morgan
her mother → Edmond Morgan
her father → Elizabeth Talgarth Morgan, Baroness
his mother → Roger Vaughan, of Portham
her father → Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower, Kt.
his father → Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, Kt.
his father → Anne Vaughan
his mother → Sir William Devereux, of Bodenham
her father → Walter Devereux, I
his father → Alice de Grandson
his mother → Pierre de Grandison, Seigneur de Grandson
her father → Beatrix de Grandson
his mother → Amadeo, Count of Geneva
her father → Aimon I, comte de Genève
his father → Gerold I, count of Geneva
his father → Berthe de Flanders, Countess Of Flanders
his mother → Baldwin III, count of Flanders
her father → Arnulf I the Great, count of Flanders
his father → Ælfthryth, countess of Flanders
his mother → Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons
her father

Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons

He's also my 30th great grandfather through my mother.

Margaret Ann Wooton
→ William Jessa Wooton
her father → Mollie marie Wooton
his mother → Russel Melton
her father → James Preston Melton
his father → Sarah Melton
his mother → Rebecca Brock
her mother → Samuel Howard
her father → James Howard
his father → Francis Howard
his father → Lady Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Arundel
his mother → Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox
her father → Katherine de Balsac
his mother → Guillaume de Balzac, seigneur d'Entragues
her father → Pierre de Balzac, baron d'Entragues
his father → Antoinette de Castelnau-Caylus
his mother → Catherine de Chauvigny
her mother → Antoinette de Damas
her mother → Guy Dalmas, baron de Cousan
her father → Hugues Dalmas, Baron de Cousan
his father → Catherine de Thoire-Villars
his mother → Jordane de Grandson
her mother → Pierre de Grandison, Seigneur de Grandson
her father → Beatrix de Grandson
his mother → Amadeo, Count of Geneva
her father → Aimon I, comte de Genève
his father → Gerold I, count of Geneva
his father → Berthe de Flanders, Countess Of Flanders
his mother → Baldwin III, count of Flanders
her father → Arnulf I the Great, count of Flanders
his father → Ælfthryth, countess of Flanders
his mother → Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons
her father

32nd great grandfather.