I just finished reading The Red Tent (great book by the way.) And now I really want an excellent family tree that starts with Laban and all of his wives. It would be ideal if it ended with all of the great grandsons of Laban, like all of the children of Reuben and Simeon and Joseph and everything. Please help!
Except for what you see in the Bible, you won't find anything else.
There are some people who claim to trace their ancestry back to Adam and Eve or some Biblical person, but they don't meet documentation standards of professional genealogist. There just aren't any records that go back that far. A lot was oral tradition that the writers put in the Bible. Any documentation would have been destroyed over the years.
I have seen trees claiming to trace the British Royal family back to David's royal line but it is based on speculation.
You have to understand people write historical novels which are not the same thing as history books and in them there are a lot of speculation to make the story interesting.
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Except for what you see in the Bible, you won't find anything else.
There are some people who claim to trace their ancestry back to Adam and Eve or some Biblical person, but they don't meet documentation standards of professional genealogist. There just aren't any records that go back that far. A lot was oral tradition that the writers put in the Bible. Any documentation would have been destroyed over the years.
I have seen trees claiming to trace the British Royal family back to David's royal line but it is based on speculation.
You have to understand people write historical novels which are not the same thing as history books and in them there are a lot of speculation to make the story interesting.
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King James Bible.
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"The Timechart of Biblical History", compiled by Third Millennium Trust, published 2002, has the genealogy of Adam thru Jesus.
If you don't want to purchase it, ask the local library to order it thru a library loan.
You'll need a magnifying glass, as most of the print is small.
It's not in regular book form; it unfolds (like an accordian).
Otherwise, you will have to go thru the Bible.
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