Cleopatra VII Philopator, Pharoah of Egypt - Susan Louise Darnell related to Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar

Hi Susan - I am very confused about my lineage and connection to Cleopatra VII - she was once a grandparent (very distant) and now she is anything but ...... I won't copy and paste her relationship because tomorrow it could change again. Even with King David, who was a grandfather in my lineage and now that has changed. I really don't want to discourage you but your relationship, depending on what is happening with profiles and her many descendants, it just may just change again.
Enjoy your day,
Coralie

It might help to know there are no proven descents from either Cleopatra or King David. In fact, there are no proven European descents before about 600. There are, however, many fake lines.

Well, Justin, at least we can rely on you to put us back on our reality feet. How did the fake lineages come into being then? It must have taken somebody with a vivid imagination and good mathematics to invent a fake lineage.

One of my ancestors, a Joseph Harriman, son of John Harriman, I personally have never been able to verify a wife for him and then I find he has a wife profile and everybody has copied it down. Of course I have asked the managers to advise where they got their information from as I would love to investigate further ---- no response. Well, this is genealogy research and we just keep plodding away and enjoying every moment of it.

A by the way, Justin, we are 11th cousins once removed. We have some interesting confirmed folks in our common trees.

Thank you for always being there for those with "L" plates on.

> It must have taken somebody with a vivid imagination and good mathematics to invent a fake lineage.

These fake lines were common before the days of scientific genealogy. All it took was a bit of imagination here and there to build a story bit by bit. Of course, quite a few of them were produced by propagandists of the European royal families in the 16th and 17th centuries, each of them vying to outdo the others and prove their family was the most glorious.

You are totally right Justin. I know a few of those false lines. They are my very own nearby ancesters and I did do a lot of research on them in the official archives and they are true of noble descend, but not trough the lineage they claim everywhere. So, I am a descendant of the Counts of Holland ..... not ! Well, not through those lines. But even if I come with proof from the official archives, I am just being ignored. Everybody suddenly just doesn't hear me. So descending from King David (???) like I should, according to Geni, I do not take that seriously anymore. If my very own family-line is half fake (done in the 18th century, when the family became Mayors of the city Schiedam for four generations and they married into a noble families), there must be more fake lines like this, is my guess. Because people just seem to treasure these fake lines :( because grandpa told them, that they were descending from Royals, so, gramps spoke the truth and official archives don't ;) sigh, it is sad ... but then our real lineage is just being ignored. I am sure frustrated because of this, I rather know I descent of honest hard working shoemakers, than from Knights who were great people, but were not related to me at all. Well, thery still are (which is funny), but trough my great-great-grandfathers lineage and not through his wives lineage. But the wife did have the same surname as these famous Knights (Hodenpijl), not the husband. So it was very funny to find out that not the wife (daughter of a Mayor in 1708 who did descent of shoemakers who owned a lot of houses and did sell them or did rent them out) with the surname Hodenpijl, but her husband (without that surname) in fact was descending from these very same Knights and Lords of the Mannor Hodenpijl. But I can tell this over and over to the Managers of these profiles, nobody seems to listen down there on Geni, so ... whatever. I am done with it. Greetings from Holland to you all, the sun is shining down here :)

Cleopatra VII Philopator, Pharoah of Egypt is your second cousin 62 times removed. ;)

Hello! How about Drusilla of Mauretanien? Married to Antonius Felix, and divorced. Then married to a King of Emesa. According to a book by Allan Klynne they had a son and a daugther. I´m trying to find out if there are any documentation about them that is accurate?

Her profile is here, with notes from our past discussions on this topic:
Drusilla the Younger, Queen Consort of Mauretania

Thank you!