Dr. Shades wrote:AmyJo wrote:That was a long time ago those oldest great grandparents lived. Joan Beaufort lived from 1379-1440. Her husband, my great grandfather Ralph de Neville lived from 1365 to 1425.
If he lived from 1365 to 1425, then he wasn't your great grandfather.
By however many generations removed he was. He was a direct ancestor and I'm a direct descendant.
Great Grandpa X's 15. Gramps de Neville.
That's gramps in the center, Great Grandma X's 15 on the left. His first wife, Margaret Stafford on the right. Both women were buried elsewhere, but this is what he had erected at his grave post-humously.
In genealogical terms they are my 15th great grandparents.
Actually, they may be 13th great grandparents. I'm going to need to go back and recount because my original findings indicated they are 13th after finding that two of their daughters are my great grandparents through my dad's side and mom's respectively. One line placed them at 18th great grandparents. It was the other daughter that moved them from 18th to 13th. It takes a lot of research to go back on the Family Search site but that's what I'm going to need to do since my Israeli cousin deleted all of my Gentile files from his family website he invited me to, after I'd entered them all in - it took me hours and days.
He wanted to keep it strictly for Jewish family. Since I was new and a hybrid, I didn't know it mattered until after he removed them. He died earlier this year, but his site is still in operation because his children will maintain and preserve it.
I'm going to need to subscribe to my own ancestry database. Thus far I've limited it to the free one provided by LDS FamilySearch. My mom was an avid genealogist in her lifetime. Being a sixth generation Mormon on dad's we have tons of genealogy right there on the LDS one. But it takes hours to work through the branches on the tree.