3 Responses for "What's the largest family tree ever recorded?"

1. Yoho December 27th, 2008 at 6:12 pm 1

   I would guess the British Royal Family.
   References :
   http://www.britroyals.com/royaltree.htm

2. Nothingusefullearnedinschool December 27th, 2008 at 6:24 pm 2

   Well, you are off to a good start. I have thousands of direct ancestors, more than 100 generations on my Mom's side; only 14 on my Dad's side (early 1400s in Germany).
   One of the trees I have connected to has more than a million entries…(It is in http://www.ancestry.com)
   References :
   genealogical research

3. MIKE M December 27th, 2008 at 7:10 pm 3

   I have over 49,000 people in my genealogical database in one tree alone. I have a friend that researches primarily only one surname and he has over 30,000 people in that database.

   You are off to a good start, but I guess you are talking about direct lines and not the whole family tree. I stopped counting after I went back 14 generations as that only got me back to the late 1500's. There is only two of my family lines that I can't get back further than 6 generations and that is because for one of them I don't have the tiem or money to go to Germany and do more research at this time, the other is just a common name that I just haven't broken the brickwall yet but I will eventually.

   I'm not sure what the largest tree is but I know for a fact that some of the Jewish genealogies are quite extensive.
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