I feel really stupid

[gwynhefar]

How did I not know the Tudors were originally Welsh?

I'm tracing back the Tudor line on my dad's side and I start getting all these Welsh names and Tudor begins to be spelled Tewdwr. Well, duh! So now I've got my biological father's line going back to (mythologically speaking) Odin, and my dad's line going back to Beli and Dôn. I've promised my mother I'll give her a call as soon as I find a royal and/or divine ancestor in her tree *g*

I am realising, as I go through all this stuff, just how very lacking my knowledge of British history is, however. I blame a strong American bias in my secondary history education, but I suppose I have no excuse for not learning more on my own. Must start doing that.

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[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I've got the Bowen line going back to Beli Mawr in my tree as well, although the generational math of the line is pretty untrustworthy.

I finally managed to wrestle the whole tree onto the family site, but in so doing, I lost the names of all 3134 people. I'm working on re-enterting that data - and hopefully getting a decent GEDCOM out of it - but I've only managed to correct 206 of them. Long way to go! =)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've got mine in Ancestry.com and it's got almost 4000 names in it right now. Does myheritage.com have an import function for other sites? I actually find Ancestry's tree view rather unweildy, but their resources make up for it.

I had problems with the generational math with the Beli Mawr line as well. I found sources placing him in both the 1st and 5th centuries CE! I went with 1st century because it made more sense given some of the other more reliable dates in the tree. Be nice if some of the Welsh kings were identified by more than simply their given name and their father's given name. I had one Owain ap Llewellyn ap Owain ap Llewellyn in my tree -- try working out generational math when that's all you have to go on!

I'm a little disappointed that the Welsh line is my adoptive father's and therefore not biologically my relations, but I'm convincing myself it's ok to claim them anyway :)