New ITV Documentary - Does your family tree connect back to British royalty?

[Romilly]

You have to have a Tree on the Family Search Site to be able to run that Link.

I’ve been trying to work out how to upload a Tree from Ancestry to there, - does anyone know how to please?

Romilly.

[KGarrad]

From Ancestry you can only download a GEDCOM file - this a specialised text file, and won't contain any images

Save the file, and then you can then upload the GEDCOM file to FamilySearch.

[Romilly]

Many thanks, I’ll give it a go!

Romilly 

[pinefamily]

I have to agree with others that I get more excited to find links to other historical figures than royalty. In my tree I have  in my tree William Youatt the vet, John Gay the poet, and Olaf Rudbeck, scientist and professor who was also teacher and mentor to Carl Linnaeus. There are also tenuous links to Joshua Reynolds the painter and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

[guest189040]

I have to agree with others that I get more excited to find links to other historical figures than royalty. In my tree I have  in my tree William Youatt the vet, John Gay the poet, and Olaf Rudbeck, scientist and professor who was also teacher and mentor to Carl Linnaeus. There are also tenuous links to Joshua Reynolds the painter and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

I have the gateway Ancestor to the so called Nobility etc but long to find more links to family members who have achieved success without the aid of the Silver Spoon.

Alas so far I have only confirmed one family story about a family of Bradford School teachers.

My Great Great Aunt Mary was the Great Aunt to the world renown author, playwright and social commentator J B Priestley (An Inspector Calls).

[ThrelfallYorky]

... and a reyt good Yorkshireman!

[Jed59]

Royalty schmoyalty .. I can trace my ancestry all the way back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule... i can’t help it..I was born sneering !

[Alberbury]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Stuart

Background

The ancestral origins of the Stuart family are obscure—their probable ancestry is traced back to Alan FitzFlaad, a Breton who came over to Great Britain not long after the Norman conquest.[1] Alan had been the hereditary steward of the Bishop of Dol in the Duchy of Brittany;[2] Alan had a good relationship with Henry I of England who awarded him with lands in Shropshire.[2] The FitzAlan family quickly established themselves as a prominent Anglo-Norman noble house, with some of its members serving as High Sheriff of Shropshire.[2][3] It was the great-grandson of Alan named Walter FitzAlan who became the first hereditary High Steward of Scotland, while his brother William's family went on to become Earls of Arundel.

When the civil war in the Kingdom of England, known as The Anarchy, broke out between legitimist claimant Matilda, Lady of the English and her cousin who had usurped her, King Stephen, Walter had sided with Matilda.[4] Another supporter of Matilda was her uncle David I of Scotland from the House of Dunkeld.[4] After Matilda was pushed out of England into the County of Anjou, essentially failing in her legitimist attempt for the throne, many of her supporters in England fled also. It was then that Walter followed David up to the Kingdom of Scotland, where he was granted lands in Renfrewshire and the title for life of Lord High Steward.[4] The next monarch of Scotland, Malcolm IV, made the High Steward title a hereditary arrangement. While High Stewards, the family were based at Dundonald, South Ayrshire between the 12th and 13th centuries.

[guest189040]

Royalty schmoyalty .. I can trace my ancestry all the way back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule... i can’t help it..I was born sneering !

You are sneering at yourself.

Like it or not you will have so called Royal Blood in you.

We all have it, it is just that you have not found it yet.