NOTES FOR ADAM
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! The Human Race: (by John Paul Pratt, fully documented)
KNOWN children of Adam:
CAIN ABEL SETH
had was slain had
Enoch
Enos
had
had
Irad Cainan
had
had
Methujael
Mahalaleel
had
had
Methusael Jared
had
had
Lamech
Enoch (God took him)
had two wives had
Adah
had Jabal and Jubal had
Zillah
Lamech
had
had
Tubalcain & Noah
Naamah, his sister had
Shem, Ham, Japeth
Posterity of Japeth
had seven sons, as follows, with their
known posterity.
Gomer
Galatians (Galls), The Francum, dwelling
in the land of Franza,
by the river Franza,
by the river Senah
had
Ashkenaz
Rhegmians
and
Riphath - Paphlagonians, the Bartonim,
dwelling in Bartonia by the
river Ledah which empaties into
the great sea Gibon
and
Togarmah - Phrygians, spread north, by
river Italac
who had 10 sons
Buzar, Parzunac, Balgar, Elicanum,
Ragbib, Tarki, Bid, Zebuc,
Ongal and Tilmaz.
Magog
- Scythians
had
Elichanaf, and
Lubal
Madai -
Medes, the Orelum, dwelling in the land of Curson
had
Achon, and
Zeelo, and
Chazoni, and
Lot
Javan - Ionia and all the Grecians, the
Javanim, dwelling
in the land of Makdonia
had
Elishah - Aeolians, the Almanim, dwelling
between mountains of
Job and Shibathmo, including
people of Lumbardi who
conquered Italia
and
Tarshish
- Tharsians (Cilicia)
and
Kittim
- Cyprus, the Romim, in valley of
Canopia, by river Tibreu
and
Dodanim
- dwell in the cities of the sea
Gihon, in the land
of Bordna
Tubal -
Iberes, those who dwell in the land of Tuskanah, by the
river Pashiah; daughters of
Tubal were the fairest
women in all the earth
had
Ariphi
and
Kesed
and
Taari
Meshech
- Cappadocians, the Shibashni
had
Dedon
and
Zaron
and
Shebashni
Tiras
- Thracians, the Rushash,
Cushni, and Ongolis; dwelling
by the sea Jabus by the river
Cura, which empties into
the river Tragan
Posterity of Shem, b. 1548, d. 2158
had five sons, as follows with their
known posterity
Elam
- Persians
had
Sushan
and
Machul
- who had Tamar -
Judah
and
Harmon
Asshur
- Assyrians
had
Mirus
--Bela
Mokil
Arphaxed
- b. 1658, d. 2096 -
Chaldeans
had
Salah
- b. 1693, d. 2126
who had
Eber
- b. 1723, d. 2187
who had
Peleg
- b. 1757, d. 1996
who had
Reu
- b. 1787, d. 2026
who had
Serug
- b. 1819, d. 2049
who had
Nahor
- b. 1849, d. 1997
who had
Terah
- b. 1878 d. 2083
Amthelo
- f. Cornebo
their children
Haran
- b. 1916, d. 1998, in Ur of the
Chaldees.
had
Lot
- b. 1957, d. 2087, md. Ado
and
Milcah
- b. 1957, md. Nahor
and
Nahor
- b. 1916, d. 2088, md. Milcah,
b. 1957, dau of Haran
and
Abram (Abraham) - b. 1948, d. 2123, md. 1. Sarai, b. 1958, d.
2085
Terah again b. 1878, d. 2083
Pelilah
their children
Zoba
- b. 2058
his
children
Aram
- b. 2088, who had
dau Mechalia, who married BENJAMIN
And Zoba had also
Achlis
and
Merik
and Eber had also
Joktan,
who had
Almodad
Sheleph
Hazarmaveth
Jerah
Hadoram
Uzal
Diklah
Obal
Abimael - who had dau Hadurah who md.
ASHER
Sheba
Ophir
Havilah
Jobab, who had
dau Adinah, who md. LEVI
dau Aridah, who md. ISSACHAR
Posterity of Ham - b.
1556, who had five sons shown with
their known
posterity
Cush
- Ethiopians
his sons
Seba
Havilah
Sabtah
Raamah
- who had Sheba and Dedan
Sabtecha
NIMROD
- b. 1908, d. 2123
had
Mardon
Mizraim
- Egyptians
who had
Ludim
Anamim
Lehabim
Naphtuhim
Pathrusim
Casluhim, who had Philistim and Caphtorim
Phut
- Libya
who had
Gebul
Hadan
Benah
Adan
Canaan
- Judea
who had
Sidon
Heth, who had Epher, who had Beeri, who
had Judith who md. ESAU
and who had Elon, who had dau Adah,
(Bashemath)
Amori
Gergashi
Hivi, who had the following descendants
Hur, who had
Seir, who had
Lotan, who had Hori and Heman, and dau
Timna, who md. Eliphaz and
Shobal, who had had ESAU
Alvan
Manahath
Ebal
Shepho
Onan
and Seir had also
Zibeon, who had
Ajah
and
Anah, who md. Marzith, and had ESAU
and Seir also had
Anah, who had
Dishon
and dau Aholibamah who md. ESAU
Seir also had
Dishon, who had
Hemdan
Eshban
Ithran
Cheran
and Seir also had
Ezer, who had
Bilhan, who md. Puith, dau ESAU, and had
Azar
Zaavan
Akan
and Seir also had
Dishan, who had
Us
Aran
Canaan also had
Arkee and
Seni, who had
Avi, who had dau Eliuram, who md. REUBEN
and dau Bunah who md. SIMEON
and Shuah who had dau Aliyath who md.
JUDAH
and Canaan also had
Arodi
Zimodi
Chamothi
Pharoh
- Egyptus
Posterity of Abraham's Brothers
Terah
- b. 1878, d. 2083, md. Amathelo
had
Haran
- b. 1916, d. 1998,
had
Lot
- b. 1957, d. 2087, md. Ado
had dau Paltith - b.
2025, d. 2047
Another dau who had
Moab, who had
Ed
Mayon
Tarsus, who had Chamudan, who had dau
Aphlaleth, who md. DAN
Kanvil
Another dau of Lot who had Benammi (Ammon)
Terah had also
Nahor
- b. 1916, d. 2088, md. Milcah, b. 1957, dau Haran
who had eight sons, shown with known
posterity
had
Huz, who had
Abi,
Cheref
Gadin,
who had
Amuram, who had dau Merimah who md.
NAPHTALI
and dau Uzith who md. GAD
Melus
Deborah (Rebekah's nurse)
Buz, who had
Berachel
Naamath
Sheva
Madonu
Kemel, who had
Aram
Rechob
Chesed, who had
Anamlech
Meshai
Benon
Yifi
Hazo, who had
Pildash
Mechi
Opher
Pildash, who had
Arud
Chamum
Mered
Moloch
Jidlaph, who had
Mushan
Cushan
Mutzi
Bethuel, who had
Sechar
Laban,
who md. Adinah, and had
Leah (twin) b. 2163, d. 2214
Rachel (twin) b.2163, d. 2208
Beor
b. 2189
Alib
Chorash
REBEKAH
- b. 2074?, d. 2207, md. ISSAC
Nahor again, - b.
1916, d. 2088, md. 2. Reumah
and had
Tebah
Gaham
Thahash
Maachah
Posterity of Abraham, b. 1948, d. 2123,
md. 1. Sarah, b.
1958, d. 2085
Had Isaac
- b. 2048, d. 2228, md. Rebeckah
Abraham
md. Hagar,
had Ishmael, b. 2035, d. 2172
md. 1. Meribah (Ribah
had
Nebajoth, who had
Mend
Send
Mayon
Kedar, who had
Alyon
Kezem
Chamad
Eli
Adbeel, who had
Chamad
Jabin
Mibsam, who had
Obadiah
Ebedmelech
Yesuh
Bashemath (Mahalath), a dau who md. ESAU
Ishmael
md. 2. Malchuth, and had
Mishma, who had
Shamua
Ebedmelech
Yeushf
Dumah, who had
Kezed
Eli
Machmad
Armed
Massa, who had
Melon
Mula
Ebidadon
Hadar, who had
Azur
Minzar, who had Aphlal, who had dau Adon
who md. ASHER
Ebedmelech
Tema, who had
Seir
Sadon
Yakol
Jetur, who had
Merith
Yaish
Alvo
Pachoth
Naphish, who had
Ebed-Tamed
Abivasaph
Mir
Kedemah, who had
Calip
Tachti
Omir
Abraham md. 3. Keturah, and had
Zimran, - - - -Shomron, who had dau
Aribath, md. BENJAMIN
Abihen
Molich
Narim
Jokshan, who had
Sheba
Desdan, who had
Asshurim
Letushim
Leummim
Medan, who had
Amida
Joab
Gochi
Elisha
Nothach
Midian, who had
Ephah, who had
Methach
Meshar
Avi
Tzanua
and Epher, who had
Ephron
Zur
Alirun
Medin
Hanock, who had
Reuel (Jethro) who had dau Zipporah who
me. MOSES
Rekem
Azi
Alyoshub
Alad
and Abida, who had
Chur
Melud who had dau Merishah who md,
Zebulun
Kerury
Molchi
and Eldaah, who had
Miker
Reba
Malchivah
Gabol
Abraham had
Ishbak, who had
Makiro
Beyodua
Tator
Abraham had
Shuah, who had
Bildad
Mamdad
Munan
Meban
Posterity of Isaac
Isaac
- b. 2048, d. 2228
md. Rebekah - b.
2074 ?, d. 2207
Their children, with known descendants
Esau (twin) - b.
2108, md. 1. Judith
had
daughters
Marzith
Puith
Esau
- md. 2. Adah dau of Elon the Hittite
had
Eliphaz - b.
2173
had
Teman
Omar
Zepho
Gatam
Kenaz
and by Concubine Timna
had
Amalek
Esau also md. Bashemath, who in Gen. 26,
is said to be the dau
of Elon the Hittite, and in
36:2 "and Bashemath,
Ishmael's daughter. And in
28:9 Then went Esau
unto Ishmael, and took unto
the wives which he had
Mahalath, the dau of
Ishmael. The pedigree by John
Paul Pratt shows only wives
Judith, Adah, Bashemath
and Aholibamah, referred to
in Gen. 26:2. and I have
followed his chart.
had by Bashemath
Ruel
- b. 2188
who had
Nahath
Zerah
Shammah
Mizzah
Esau had by Aholibamah
Jeush
who had
Timna
Alvah
Jetheth
Jaalam
who had
Elah
Pinon
Kenaz
Korah
who had
Teman
Mibzar
Magdiel
Iram
And Isaac had
Jacob (twin to Esau) - b.
2108, d. 2255, md. 1. Leah
and had
Reuben
- b. 2192, d. 2317, md. Eliuram,
and had
Hanock
Phallu
Hezon
Carmi
Simeon
- b. 2193, d. 2313, md. 2. Bunah, and had
Shaul
Levi
- b. 2194, d. 2331, md. Adinah,
and had
Gershon
Kohath, who had Amran, who md. Jochebed,
and had
Miriam, dau
Elisheba, dau
AARON
- b. 2365, d. 2488
MOSES
- b. 2368, d. 2488, md. 3.
Zipporah
Merari
Jochebed, dau, who md. Amram, above
Judah
- b. 2195, d. 2324, 1. Tamar
they had
Pharez
Zerah
Judah again, and
4. Aliyath
they had
Er
Onan
Shelah
Issachar
- 2197, d. 2324, md. 1. Airdah
they had
Tola
Phuvah
Job
Shimron
Zebulun
- b. 2198, d. 2310, md. 3. Merishah
they had
Sered
Elon
Jahleel
Dinah
- daughter who married Jas.
they had
Jemuel
Jamin
Ohad
Jachin
Zophar
Jacob
had by Bilah
Dan
- b. 2195, who md. 2. Aphlaleth
and they had
Husim
Naphtali
- b. 2196, d. 2327, md. 2. Merimah
and they had
Jahzeel
Guni
Jezer
Shillem
Jacob had by Zilpha
Gad
- b. 2196, d. 2321, md. 2.
Uzith
they had
Ziphion
Haggi
Shuni
Ezbon
Eri
Arodi
Areli
Asher
- b. 2197, . 2320, md. 1. Hadurah
they had
Jimna
Ishuah
Isui
Beriah
Jacob had by Rachel
Joseph
- b. 2199, d. 2309, md. Asenath, dau of Potipherah, son
they had
of Ahiram
MANASSEH, who had
Ehi (Ahiram)
Rosh
Muppim
Huppim
Ard
EPHRIAM, some of whose family were slain
by the men of Gath who
who came to steal their cattle
out of the land of Goshen.
"and Ephriam their father
mourned many days, and his
brethren came to comfort
him."
His know sons are the
following:
Shuthelah, the eldest son.
Bered
Tahan
Benjamin - b.
2208, md. 1. Mechalia
they had
Belah
Becher
Ashbel
Gera
Naaman
Benjamin md.
3. Aaaribath
TABLE OF NATIONS
Adam md. Eve
______________________________________________________________
l l l
Cain Seth Abel
l l
Enoch Enos
l l
Irad
Cainan
l l
Mehujael Mahalaleel
l l
Methusael Jared
l l
Lamech Enoch
l l
md. Adah
l md. Zillah Methuselah
________l________ l
l l l
Jubal
Tubal-cain l
Jubal
Naamah Lamech
l
l
Noah
l
l
FLOOD /l FLOOD
__________________________l_____________________
l l l
Ham _________Shem Japheth
l l l l
___________l__________ l
l
_________________________________
l
l l l
l l l
l l l
l l l
Cush
l Phut l
Egyptus Elam Arphaxed
Magog l Gomer
l Meshech l Tiros
l
l l l l l l
l l
l Mizraim
Canaan l Madai l
Tubal l
l
l l l Salah l Javan
Nimrod
l l First Pharaoh l ______l________ l
v l
of Egypt Eber______ l
l l l
(Philistines) l l l
l l l l
_____l__________l__________ l l
l l l
/l
l l l l
l l l
l ____l______
l v l l
l l l
l l l
l
Sidon Amorites Heth
Peleg Joktan l
l lElishahl Kittim
v l l l
l l
(Hittites) l l l
l Tarshish
Reu Ashkenoz l
Targarmah
l l
Serug Riphath
l
Nahor
l
Terah
l
____________________________________l_____________________________
l l l
Nahor md. Milcah Abraham Haran
l
l___________________
_______________
l l l l
l l l
l
l md. Sarah m.Hagar m.Keturah l l l l
l l l l
Lot l Sarah
l
Bethuel l l l
l l l
l
____l________ Isaac Ishmael
Midian l Milcah Iscah
l l ____________ md. Rebekah l
l l
Laban Rebekah
l l l
l l _____________
l____ l l 12 Princes
l l l
l
l l l Moab Benammi
Leah Rachel Esau Jacob Jethro v
v
_________________________l____________ (Moabites)(Ammonites)
l l l l
md. Leah md. Bilah
md.Zilpah md. Rachel
l l l l_______________
l l l l l
Reuben Dan Gad Joseph Benjamin
Simeon Naphtali Asher l l
Levi l
Judah
__________l______________
Issachar l l
Zebulun Manasseh Ephriam
NOTE: Families are not necessarily complete as
shown.
Spellings are as in Genesis for names
appearing there.
There are many lineages
purporting to go back to Adam and I have
found
several for our family, but
always there are those who dispute them. It is
of course very likely that
mistakes have been made when going back so far.
Here is one, the Warren
line. And others say that no known parents of
Richard Warren are known.
Sources: Royal Lines-Adams; Americans of Royal
Descent-Browning;
American Genealogy
Compendium-Wirkus; Pilgrim Dictionary-Savage;
Colonists Ancestral
Roots-Weis; Printed Family Histories;
Records of the Genealogical
Society
This goes back from our
Ancestor to Charlemagne, shown on the charts.
1.
Anne Warren who married Thomas Little
2.
Richard Warren
3.
Christopher Warren
4.
William Warrne
5.
Christopher Warren
6.
John Warren
7.
William Warren
8.
Lawrence Warren
9.
John Warren
10.
Lawrence Warren
11.
John Warren
12.
Edward Warrer
13.
John Warren
14.
John Warren
15.
William Warren
16.
Reginald of Warren
17.
Gundred d. 1085 (there is much
dispute as to wether Gundred is
the dau. of Wm. or of Gerbod the
Flemming.
18.
William the Conqueror me. 1053
Mathilde
19.
Baldwin V
20.
Baldwin 1V
21.
Arnulf 11
22.
Baldwin 111
23.
Arnulf d. 964
24.
Baldwin 11 d. 918
25.
Judith
26.
Karl 11 d. 877
27.
Louis the Pious b. 778
Pippin b. 773
Charlemagne
And I have the line of
several others, but all are disputed by some
researchers. I sometimes
think our lines are the most disputed to be
found. So I am not copying the others here.
The following lineage which
I do not connect to our family, is given only to
show what has been found,
and it is mostly correct, as the Bible lineages
are very carefully given and
preserved.
ONE LINEAGE
1.
Adam and Eve
54. Salathiel
2.
Seth
55. Zarobbabel
3.
Enos
56. Rhesa
4.
Cainan 57. Joanna
5.
Mahalaleel
58.
6.
Jared
59. Juda
7.
Enoch
60. Joseph
8.
Methuselah
61. Samuel
9.
Lamech
62. Mattathias & dau. of
10.
Noah (2500 B C)
Simeon the Just.
11
Shem
63. Joseph
12.
Arphaxed
64. Johanna
13.
Salah
65. Melchi
14.
Eber
66. Levi
15.
Peleg
67. Matthan
16.
Reu
68. Joseph
17.
Serug 69. Anna
18.
Nahor
70. Penardim
19.
Terah
71. Bran the Blessed
20.
Abraham and Sarah (2000 B C)
72. Carodoc
21.
Isaac and Rebecca 73.
Cyllin
22.
Jacob and Rachel
74. Prince Cole
23.
Joseph and Asneth (1700 B C)
75. Lucius,King & Missiona
24.
Parez
76. Cadwallader
25.
Ezrom 77.
Frea, md. Wodin or Odin
26.
Aram
78. Beleg
27.
Aminadib
79. Brand
28.
Nashon
80. Frithogar
29.
Salmon 81.
Freawin
30.
Boaz and Ruth
82. Wig
31.
Obed
83. Gewig
32.
Jesse
84. Esla
33.
David
85. Elisa
34.
Nathan
86. Cerdic
35.
Mattatha
87. Cynric
36.
Menan
88. Ceawlin
37.
Melda
89. Cuthwine
38.
Eliakim
90. Ceowald
39.
Jonan
91. Ceonred
40.
Joseph
92. Ingild
41.
Judah
93. Eoppa
42.
Simeon 94. Eoha
43.
Levi
95. Eahimund
44.
Mallhat
96. Egbert
45.
Jorem
97. Ethelwulf
46.
Eliezar 98. Alfred the Great, d. 901 and
47.
Jose
Eahlswith, died 926.
48.
Er
99. Edward 1, md. Edgiva, who
49.
Elmodan died
946.
50.
Gosam
100. Edmund 1,& Elfrified
975
51.
Addi
101. Edgar md. Elfrida. d. 1016
52.
Melchi
102. Ethelred 11, md. Elgiva
53.
Neri 103. Edmund 11 Ironside, md.
Ealdgyth
104. Edward
105. Margaret, d. 1093
106. David 1, King of Scotland
md. Maud, b.1080, d.1153, dau. Walter Earl
and Judith, dau. of Adelaid,
half-sister of William the Conqueror.
107. Henry, Earl of Huntington,
md. Ada de Warren, granddaughter of William
the Conqueror, d. 1152.
I have found records which
are supposed to go from our known ancestor to
William the Conqueror. No
doubt there may be some errors, but we are all sons and daughters of Kings. The
important thing is that we are all sons and daughters of
a Heavenly King
FROM SCOTTISH KINGS
1.
Fereher (Ferodach)
2.
Fergus, lived 390 BC
3.
Mangus 261
4.
Domaadel 233
5.
Reuther 187
6.
Josini 134
7.
Fennan 104
8.
Darstus 95
10.
Gormace
11.
Europa md. Cadallanus
12.
Corbred 67 AD
13.
Corbred 11 106 AD
14.
Dan
15.
Dau.
16.
Etholius chr. 192 AD
17.
Etholius 11 238 AD
18.
Arthurko 250 AD
19.
Cormacus
20.
Fencormacus
21.
Ethod
22.
Erch from Denmark
23.
Fergus 11 Chr. 420 AD
OUR ANCESTORS, THE GREAT MEN, THE MAGNA
CHARTA SURETIES AND KING JOHN
1. Robert L. Ashley
2. William H. Ashley
3. Nathaniel Ashley
4. Benjamin Ashley
5. Lydia Kimball, md. Jonathan Ashley
6. Thomas Kimball
7. Thomas Kimball
8. Thomas Kimball
9. Richard Kimball
10. Ursula Scott, md. Richard Kimball
11. Henry Scott
12. Edmund Scott
13. Sir Reginald Scott
14. Anne Pympe, md. Sir John Scott
15. Elizabeth Pashley, md. Reginald Pympe
16. John Pashley, md. Lowys Gower
17. Sir John Pashley, md. Elizabeth Woodville
18. Philippa Sergent. md. Sir Robert Pashley
(Knt.)
19. Philippa Fitz Alan, md. Sir Richard Sergent
(Knt.)
20. Richard Fitz Alan, md. Isabel de Despencer
21. Alice de Warren, md. Edmund Fitz Alan, Earl
of
Arsendel, b.
1285, d. 1376.
22. Joanna de Vere, md. William de Warren of
Surrey, d 1286
23. Robert de Vere, md. Isabel Bolebee, d 1221.
He a Magna Charta
Surety.
Back to
20. Isabel de Despencer, Md. Richard Fitz Alan,
Earl;
of Arundel and Surrey, d
1376
21. Hugh de Despencer of Winchester, beheaded
1326,
md. Eleanor de Clare.
22. Isabel Beauchamp, md. Hugh de Despencer,
Earl of Winchester
23. Maud Fitzjon, md. William Beauchamp
24. John Fitzjon, lived 1238, md. Margery
Bassett
25. Isabel Bigod, md. John Fitzjohn or
FitzGeofry
26. Sir Ralph Bigod, md. Beirto Furnival, b abt
1208
27. Hugh Bigod, Md. Maud Marshall, d. 1225
28. Roger Bigod, md. Isabel de Warren, dau of
Hameline and Isabel de
Warren.
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20. Isabel de Despencer, Md. Richard Fitz Alam
21. Eleanor de Claare, md. Hugh de Despencer
22. Gilbert de Clare, 9th Earl of Clare, md.
Princess
Joan Plantaganet
23 Richard de Clare, 8th Earl of Clare, md.
Maud, dau
of John de Lacie and
Margaret, dau of Robert
Quincy, son of Saire de
Quincy.
24. Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Clare, md.
Isabel,
dau of William de Marchal
25. Richard de Clard, 6th Earl of Clare, md.
Amicia,
dau of Wiilliam de
Mellent
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22.
Gilbert de Clare, 9th Earl of Clare, md. Princess
Joan, daughter of Edward
1.
23. Maud de Lacie, md. Richard de Clare, 8th
Earl of Clare
24. Margaret de Quincy, md. John de Lacie, Earl
of Lincoln
25.
26. Saire de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, md.
Lady Margaret
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22. Princess Joan Plantaganet, md. Gilbert de
Clare
23. Edward 1
(1239 - 1307) King England, md. 1 1254
Princess Eleanor, dau of
Ferdinand, King of Castle
24. Henry 111 (1206 - 1272) King of England,
md. 1236
Eleanor, dau Raymond
Beringer, Court of Providence
25. John (1169 - 1216) King of England, Signer
of Magna
Charter M ND LL, M NB LL,.
md. Isabel dau pf Aymer de
Taillefer
You will note your descent
from 8 of the Sureties who
forced King John to sign
lthe Magna Charta. The Sureties were astonishingly
inter-related. Among them
were several instances of father and son,
father-in-law and
son-in-law, brothers and cousins. They
had a common descent
from Charllllllemagne. 20 of
the 25 were related in degree of second cousin or
nearer. Of these 25 Surety
Barons, only 17 have descendants living to the
present day. (It is quite
likely other of the 17 are also our ancestors. Note
that King John is an
ancestor.
King John Ancestry back to
Charlemagne
Begin with
25. King John of Magna Charta fame, then to his
father
26. Henry 11 "Short Mantle" Knighted
in 1148, md. Queen
Eleanor, d 1202
27. Matilda, or Maud (1104 - 1167) md. 2. 1127
Geoffrey, Count
of Anjou, Plantaganet.
28. Henry 1, King of England (1068 - 1135), md.
Matilda, dau
of Malcolm 111, King of
Scotland.
29.
Lady Matilda, md. William the Conqueror, d 1085
30. Baldwin V the Pius, 7th Count of Flanders,
md.
Adela, d 1067, dau Robert
11, King of France
31. Baldwin 1V, md. Eleanora, dau of Richard 111
32. Susanna, md. Arnolph 11, Junior Count of
Flanders
33. Berengarius 11, King of Italy 951
34. Gisela, md. Adalbert Markgrave in Trrea, d
924.
35. Benengarius 1, King of Italy, 888
36.
Gisela, md. Eberhard, Duke of Frioul, d 867
37. Louis 1, King of France, md. Judith
Begin with
32. Arnolph 11, md. Susanna
33. Baldwin 111, md. Matilda, dau of Duke of
Saxony
34. Arnolph 1 Magnus, md. Alisa, dau of Herbert
1
35. Baldwin 11, the Bold, md. Ethelswida (889)
dau
of Alfred the Great, King
of England
36. Princess Judith, md. Baldwin 1, Count of
Flanders
37.
Charles 11, the Bold (823 - 878), md. Richildils
38. Ludovicus Germanicus, King of Germany (840)
39. Louis 1, King of France, Roman Emperor, md.
Judith
of Bavaria
40. Charlemagne
I am writing this before
starting to enter sheets dealing with royalty. We
are all of the Royal line of
Adam. Lineage has been of utmost importance
in God's dealings with man.
Throughout the scriptures a very careful record
is given of lineages. I
rather think it is just as important to us. It came
to me that we might be
required to be able to state who we are when we have
left this world and are
entering the next. Certainly most of us will not be
able to give a long lineage,
but I am sure we will need to know our immediate
ancestry, and have some idea
of the outline of our lineage. As members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints we are told of our lineage when we
have our patriarchal
blessings. Either that we are of the lineage of Ephriam
or other brothers of his
father Joseph.
I am therefore copying the
following article which I think is important
for all of us.
The Children of Ephriam
By Archibald F. Bennett
One of the marvelous
developments of the latter days, to which all members
of the Church are looking
forward with high anticipation, will be the coming
of the time when the native
races of America, the Indians or Lamanites, will
learn of the noble
forefathers from whom they are descended, and of the bless-
ings they inherit because of
that lineage
The Prophet Joseph Lehi,
glimpsing down the vista of many centuries, foretold
this time:
"And at that day shall the remnant of
our seed know that they are of the
house of Israel, and that
they are the covenant people of the Lord; and then
shall they know and come to
the knowledge of their forefathers."
The period cannot new be far
distant when these tribes will discover with joy
that they are indeed
descended from Abraham and Jacob and Joseph; and that they
shall assist in the
fulfilment of the covenant the Lord made with these fathers of old that in
their seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. For this
covenant, we are told,
"should be fulfilled in the latter days." (I Nephi 15:18.)
Many Latter-day Saints not
of Lamanite descent, however, in looking forward to
these dramatic discoveries,
lose sight of the fact that equally wonderful pre-
dictions have been made
concerning them and their own lineage; and that they too
are destined, if they prove
faithful in obeying the commands of God, to learn of
the long lines of their
progenitors and find that the chain of life extends back
from them to the noblest and
choicest men and women who have ever lived. How aptly
the words of Mormon apply to
us, as well as to the descendants of father Lehi:
"Know ye that ye are of the house of
Israel....Know ye that ye must come to
the knowledge of your
fathers....and if ye believe this, ye will know concerning
your fathers, and also the
marvellous works which were wrought by the power of
God among them; And ye will
also know that ye are a remnant of the seed of Jacob;
therefore ye are numbered
among the people of the first covenant." Mormon 7, 2, 5, 9, 10.
We have long boldly
proclaimed to the world that the members of this Church are
of the chosen seed of
Israel. For this we have no less authority than the revel-
ations of the Lord lhimself.
He has said, "For ye are the children of Israel, and
of the seed of
Abraham." (Doc. and Cov.
103:17.) The Prophet Joseph Smith was
declared to be of the loins
of Abraham, a descendant of Joseph who was sold into
Egypt, and "a pure Ephraimite."
Brigham Young once taught:
"You have heard Joseph say that the
people did not know him; he had his eyes
on the relation to
blood-relations. Some have supposed that he meant spirit, but
it was the blood-relation.
This is it that he referred to. His descent from Joseph
that was sold into Egypt was
direct, and the blood was pure in him. That is why
the Lord chose him and we
are pure when this blood strain from Ephriam comes down pure. The decrees of
the Almighty will be exalted--that blood which was in him
was pure and he had the sole
right and lawful power, as he was the legal heir to
the blood that has been on
the earth and has come down through a pure lineage. The
union of various ancestors
kept that blood pure." (Gen. Mag. Vol 2, p 107.)
Joseph Smith declared that
wherever the Church was established there should be
a Patriarch chosen,
"even the oldest man of the blood of Joseph or the seed of
Abraham," to bestow
patriarchal blessings upon the Saints and among other things,
make known their true
lineage. Joseph Smith, Sr., was the first Patriarch of the
church, which position was
his by right of birth.
From him the birthright and
the office of Patriarch passed to his eldest surviving
son, Hyrum Smith. In
blessing him, Joseph Smith Sr. used these words. "I now ask my
Heavenly Father to bless
thee with the same blessings with which Jacob blessed his
son Joseph, for thou art his
true descendant, and thy posterity shall be numbered
with the house of
Ephriam."
The right of patriarchal
seniority is now vested in Patriarch Hyrum G. Smith,
great-grandson of Hyrum
Smith. In a recent sermon he said:
"It is the policy and order of the
Church at the present time to have at
least one patriarch in each
stake, who is authorized to bless the members of
the stake, and declare their
lineage in a similar way to the manner in which
Jacob blessed his grandsons,
and his own sons. At the present time in the Church
the great majority of those
receiving their blessings are declared to be of the
house and lineage of
Ephriam,. while many others are designated as members of
the house of Manasseh; but
up to the present time we have discovered that those
who are leaders in Israel,
no matter from where they come, no matter out of what
nation they have come, are
of Ephriam; while the blood of Manasseh is found in the
tribes and nations of the
Indians of North and South America. They are great, they
are wonderfully blessed, but
Ephriam seems to prevail in the greater blessings, in
the greater
responsibilities, and in faithfulness to the Lord's work." (Quoted
from "The Day of
Ephriam," Gen. Mag., Vol 30, p. 124:)
Ephriam Mixed Among the
Nations
Those members of the Church
pronounced as mostly of the lineage of Ephriam, have
been gathered from many
different nations and from all parts of the world. This
is in accord with the
prediction of the Prophet Hosea, who looked into the future
and declared, "Ephriam
he had mixed himself among the people." (Hosea 7:8.) On this point
President Brigham Young explained:
"Israel is dispersed among all the
nations of the earth, the blood of Ephriam
is mixed with the blood of
all the earth. Abraham's seed is mingled with the rebell-
ious seed through the whole
world of mankind." (Discourses, p
669.)
"We are now gathering the children of
Abraham who have come through the loins
of Joseph and his sons, more
especially through Ephriam, whose children are mixed
among all the nations of the
earth. (The sons of Ephriam are wild and uncultivated,
unruly, ungovernable. The
spirit in them is turbulent and resolute; they are the
Anglo-Saxon race, and they
are upon the face of the whole earth, bearing the spirit
of rule and dictation, to go
forth from conquering to conquer.) They
search wide
creation and scan every nook
and corner of this eaarth to find out what is upon and
within it. I see a
congregation of them before me today. No hardship will discourage
these men; they will
penetrate the deepest wildsd and overcome almost insurmount-
able difficulties to develop
the treasures of the earth, to further their indomit-
able spirit of
adventure." (Discourses, p 670.)
"Ephriam has become mixed with all the
nations of the earth, and it is Ephriam
that is gathering together,
it is Ephriam that I have been searaching for all the
days of my preaching, and
that is the blood which ran in my veins when I embraced
the gospel." (Journal of Discourses, 2:268-269.)
Truth Will Prevail
These straightforward
declarations once provoked in the world only merriment and ridicule. Today the
idea that the Anglo-Saxon is descended from Israel has many
prominent champions, and
volumes of evidence have been produced in support of it.
It is proposed to show, in
the light of present day knowledge, that the foregoing
statements of our leaders
were not imaginary and far-fetched, but in entire agree-
ment with facts now
recognized as well established
The plan will be to trace
the story of the children of Ephriam down through the captivity to the point
where their history merges with that of the tribes which
settled northern Europe and
became the progenitors of the people of Scandinavia,
Great Britian, Germany,
France, etc. Then through some of the older existing pedi-
grees the chain of life will
be followed from descendants of these tribes down to
individuals living in
typical nations of Europe; from these persons the various
lines will be traced till
they unite in a Puritan emigrant who sailed for New
England, there to become a
progenitor of numerous families among us.
Prophetic History of
Ephriam
"Prophecy is but
history reversed." Hence a scrutiny
of the prophecies made pertaining to Ephriam will enable us to reconstruct much
of the history of that
tribe.
Unto Jacob, grandfather of
Ephriam, many things were made known concerning the
later history of the sons of
Joseph. He predicted that they should "grow into
a multitude in the midst of
the earth." Of Manasseh he said,
"He also shall be-
come a people, and he also
shall become great;" while of Ephriam he predicted,
"but truly his younger
brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be-
come a multitude of
nations." (Gen. 48:16, 19.)
But there was to come a time
when all but a remnant of the seed of Joseph should
be destroyed.
"Let us remember the
words of Jacob, before his death; for behold, he saw that a
remnant of the coat of
Joseph was preserved, and had not decayed. And he said, Even as this remnant of
garment of my son's hath been preserved, so shall a remnant of
the seed of my son's be
preserved by the hand of God, and be taken unto himself,
while the remainder of the
seed of Joseph shall perish, even as the remnant of his
garment." (Alma 46:24-26.)
With Joseph the Lord made a
covenant that he would preserve his seed forever; and
that from among his
descendants the Lord would raise up a righteous branch unto
the house of Israel, which
was to be broken off, but to be remembered in the cov-
enants of the Lord in the
latter days. Joseph was further promised
by the Lord
that in time one of his
posterity would be raised up as a choice seer, who would
bring to the children of
Joseph a knowledge of the covenants made with their fathers
in the latter days. "And
his name shall be called after me; and it shall be after
the name of his father. And
he shall be like unto me; for the thing which the Lord
shall bring forth by his
hand, by the power of the Lord lshall bring my people
unto salvation. (11 Nephi 3:5-8, 11-16.)
Many other prophecies were
recorded by Joseph of old, and these are yet to be
made known. When that time
comes we shall certainly learn much concerning his
posterity.
"And now, I, Nephi,
speak concerning the prophecies of which my father hath spoken,
concerning Joseph, who was
carried into Egypt. For behold, he truly prophesied concerning all his seed.
And the prophecies which he wrote, there are not many
greater. And he prophesied
concerning us, and our future generations; and they are written upon the plates
of brass." (11 Nephi 4: 1-2.
These plates of brass,
brought by Lehi from Jerusalem contained also a record
of the genealogy of the
ancestors of Laban and Lehi back to Joseph. Lehi himself
predicted "That these
plates of brass should go forth unto all nations, kindreds,
tongues and people who were
of his seed. Wherefore, he said that these plates of
brass should never perish;
neither should they be dimmed any more by age."
(1 Nephi 5:18, 19.)
When Joseph died at the age
of 110 years, he had lived to see Ephriam's children
of the third generation. The
eldest son of Ephriam was Shuthelah, and other sons were Bered and Tahan. Some
of Ephriam's family were slain by the men of Gath in Egypt who came to steal
their cattle out of the land of Goshen. "And Ephriam their
father mourned many days,
and his brethren came to comfort him.
At the first enumeration
taken of the Israaelites by tribes, in the wilderness
of Sinai after the exodus from
Egypt, in the days of Moses, the tribe of Ephriam
contained 40,500 males over
twenty years of age able to bear arms. But at a cen-
sus forty years later their
number had decreased to 32,500. At the first count
Elishama, son of Ammihud,
the son of Laadan, who was descended from Shuthelah,
represented the tribe of
Tphriam. Elishama was father to Nun, whose son Joshua
became leader of all Israel
after Moses.
From the day of Joshua the
tribe of Ephriam occupied a prominent place in Israel,
especially after the
separation of the northern tribes from Judah and Benjamin. At times the term
Ephriam is used by the prophets to indicate the whole of the ten
tribe of Israel. But even
where the name is used in the more inclusive sense, it
must of necessity refer also
to the tribe of Ephriam which was a part of that
nation.
"From the time of the
revolt, the history of Ephriam is in two senses the
history of the kingdom of
Israel, since not only did the tribe become a king-
dom, but the kingdom
embraced little besides the tribe....There are few things
more important in the sacred
story than the descent of this haughty and jealous
tribe from the culminating
point at which it stood when it entered on the fairest
portion of the Land of
Promise--the chief sanctuary and the chief settlement of
the nation within its
limits, its leader the leader of the whole people--down
to the sudden captivity and
total oblivion which closed its career." (Smith: Bible
Dictionary, p 283.)
While the Ten Tribes ripened
in iniquity, heedless of the repeated warnings of
the prophets, nation after
nation was falling before the military power of Assyria.
In B. C. 745 the Assyrian
crown was seized by a military adventurer named Pul or
Pula, who then assumed the
name of Tiglath-pileser 1V He marched
against Menshem,
King of Israel, wrested part
of his dominions from him, and compelled the Israelites
to pay tribute. Later,
"in the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser
king of Assyria." and
took a number of cities including some of the strongholds of
Ephriam and all the land of
Naphtali and carried off other captives," even the
Reubenites, and the Gadites,
and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them
unto Halah, and unto Habor,
and Hora, and to the river Gozan, unto this day."
(11 Kings 15:19, 29; 1
Chron. 5:26.) He chronicles his
achievements in these
words: "The distant
land of Beth-Khumri....the whole of its inhabitants I carried
away." (Ragozin: Story of Assyria, p 232.)
Tiglath-pileser died in
December, B.C. 727 and was succeeded by a certain Ulula,
who took the name of
Shalmanser 1V. Hoshea was then king of Israel. "Against him
came up Shalmaneser king of
Assyria;....and went up to Samaria, and besieged it
three years." During
the siege he died or was murdered in December of the year
722, and the throne was
seized by another general, Sargon.
"In the ninth year of
Hoshea the king of Assuria took Samaria and carried Israel
away into Assyria, and
placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river of Gozan,
and in the cities of the
Medes." (11 Kings 17:6.)
In the district which was
formerly the ancient kingdom of the Medes there is but
one important river, and
today it is known as the river Ozen or Ousan. A map of
the period about 1000 A.D.
shows this same river as Gozen, Uzen, thus identifying
it with the river Gozan of
the captivity. Near this river are the towns Abhar and
Haru, doubtless the Habor
(which in the Septuagint is spelled Abor) and Hara of
the Bible. Finally Halah (to
the Septuagint Ala-e) is possibly the town of Ala-
mut on a tributary of the
Ozen. (Milner: Israel's Wanderings, pp 42, 43.) So the
general scene of the
captivity was an area southwest of the Caspian Sea, to the
east of the river Aras
(formerely the Araxes.)
Excavators have found amid
the ruins of Sargon's palace the annals of hisd con-
quests. One of the first
entries is that:
"In the beginning of my
reign I besieged, I took by the help of the god Shamash,
who gives me victory over my
enemies, the city of Samaria
(ir-Samirina). 27,280
of its inhabitants I carried
away....I took them to Assyria and put into their
places people whom my hand
had conquered." (Ragozin, p 247; Sayce: "Ancient Civilizations and
Their Vanished Glories." in Book of History, p 1575, Carpenter,
p 30.)
The punishment the captives
were now forced to undergo had been vividly portrayed. Prophets had declared
they should be oppressed and spoiled and crushed evermore;
serving their enemies in
hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in want of all
things; with a yoke of iron
upon their necks. Their lives should hang in doubt;
their children should go
into captivity; they should fear day and night. Their rulers should hate them.
They should perish among the heathen, and the lands of
their enemies should eat
them up. And they that were left alive should pine away
in the lands of their
enemies (Deut. 28; Levi 26:17, 38.)
Yet to those who survived
this terrible ordeal, deliverance from bondage was
promised, when they should
be humbled sufficiently to accept the punishment for their iniquity--then would
the Lord remember his covenants with their fathers.
"Oh my people that
dwellest in Zion, he not afraid of the Assyrian; he shall smite thee with a
rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of
Egypt. For yet a very little
while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their
destruction...And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall
be taken from off thy neck,
and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." (Isaiah 10:24, 25, 27.)
On the Nineveh marbles the
story can be read that a people called Esak-ska (cf. Sakai, Saki-suna, Saxons)
rebelled against the Assyrians about 670 B.C. or nearly
fifty years after the
captivity. As the enemies of Assyria gathered against her,
doubtless many of the
captives made their escape. Then the cruel oppressor fell.
Cyaxeres of Media led his
legions against doomed Nineveh. After a lengthy seige
the city was taken, in B.C.
606, its ruler was slain, its people
carried into
captivity, and its palaces
and temples burned. "Assyria and
its empire had passed
forever from the stage of
history."
The fall of Nineveh, and the
confusion of the times, afforded an opportunity
of escape. We can imagine
how the captive Israelites gathered in their homes
between the Araxes and Gozan
rivers, and in Armenia. The story of that escape is
told in the oft-quoted
passage from Esdras or Ezra:
"They took this counsel
among themselves, that they would leave the multitude
of the heathen, and go forth
into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
that there they might keep
their statutes, which they never kept in their own
land. And they entered in at
the narrow passages of the Euphrates. For the Most
High then showed signs for
them, and held still the flood till they were passed
over. For through that
country there was a great way to go, even of a year and a
half. And the same region is
called Arsareth. (11 Esdras 13:40-46.)
The path they followed seems
indicated by certain names even today. A natural
route for them to take from
their home east of the Araxes would lead them around
the north-eastern end of
Lake Van, and through a pass in the mountains to the
eastern branch of the Euphrates.
After following about fifty miles along its
right bank they would be
obliged to cross this river, at a point accurately corr-
esponding to the
"Narrow Passage" spoken of by Esdras. Another fifty miles and
they would cross the Araxes.
Further on the route is a river named on some maps Israel-su (Israel river).
Northward, in the Caucasus mountains, there is an
important pass known to this
day as "the Gates of Israel."
(Milner: Israel's
Wanderings, p. 54; Weldon:
Origin of the English, p. 50.)
The greater portion of this
migration was complete by the latter part of the
6th century B. C. for Nephi
declares that "there are many who are already lost
from the knowledge of those
who are at Jerusalem. Yea, the more part of all the
tribes have been led away;
and they are scattered to and fro upon the isles of
sea." (1 Nephi 22:3-4.)
The Cimmerians and
Scythians
From the identical region
where the Ten Tribes were lost in captivity are
traced tribes whose
descendants spread over Europe. Herodotus, the earliest Greek historian, about
450 B.C. minutely describes an ancient group of nomads whom he called
"Scythians," which then inhabited the Crimea and the South Russian
steppe
from the Don to the
Dniester. Before them, in this same area, had formerely dwelt
the "Cimmerians."
This last people had raised mounds there, but had by that date
migrated into Asia Minor,
Armenia, and into the north and west of Europe. Hero-
dotus says the Cimmerians
raised mounds over their kings, :which may be seen to
this day." So also was
this custom followed among the Scythians. When a chieftan
died, with him were buried
his horses, and all sorts of gold and silver vessels.
"A giantic sepulchral
mound was heaped over all....Many such mounds....have been
found in the vicinity of the
Dnieper and opened." (Herodotus, 1V,c,11; Schurz:
"The Scythians,
Cimmerians and Sarmatians," an article in the Book of History,
p. 2446.)
From this area north of the
Black Sea two great general waves of migration
spread over northern Europe.
The first was that of the Cimmerians or Kelts;
the second that of the
Scythians. From the first group have arisen the Cimbri
who attacked Rome, the Cymry
or Welsh descended from the ancient Britons, the
Bretons of Brittany in
France, the Gaelic Scots and the Irish. Some branches of
this race settled early in
Scandinavia. From the Scythian stock have sprung the
Franks, the Gothic tribes
which overthrew the Roman Empire and settled in Italy,
Spain, and northern Africa,
the Anglo-Saxons, the Lowland Scotch, the Swedes,
Danes, Norwegians and
Icelanders, the Germans, Flemish, Swiss and Dutch. (A
good summary of evidence for
this classification is found in Sharon Turner's
"History of the
Anglo-Saxons, Vol. 1, chapters 1, 3.) Thus the Cimmerians and
Scythians prove to be the
ancestors of the nations of Northern Europe.
One branch of the Scythians
was known as the Sakee. Our ancestors, the Saxons,
are held to be descended
from them. Sharon Turner has written:
"The Saxons were a
German or Teutonic, that is, a Gothic or Scythian tribe;
and of the various Scythian
nations which have been recorded, the Sakae, or
Sacae, are the people from
whom the descent of the Saxons may be inferred, with the least violation of
probability." (p. 59.)
Choerilus, a Greek poet,
calls them "the sheep-feeding Sacae, a people of
the Scythian race...truly
they were a colony of nomads, a righteous race."
(Strabo, Bk. V11,c,3,No.9.)
One branch of this people "got possession of the
most fertile tract in
Aarmenia, which was called after their own name, Sacasene,"
equilevant in sound to
Saxony. (Strabo, Bk. X1,c,8,No.4.) Ptolemy found a people
called Saxones living in the
region from which the Saxons later came to England.
He says they were derived
from the Sacae, who came, he states, from the country
of the Medes. Diodorus of
Sicily says, "The Sacaea sprung from a people in Media,
who obtained a vast and
glorious empire." The Scythians, formerly inconsiderable and few, possessed a narrow region on the
Araxes." (Diodorus Sicilus, p. 127.)
The same original home is
given by Sharon Turner. "The country where the ancients
placed the Sacae and
Sacassani....lies between the Arras and the Kur, which are
the ancient Araxes and
Cyrnus, near the northern parts of Persia."
(Col. 1, 295-6, 202.)
Curiously enough, this
region on the Aras or Araxes river, in Media, in Armenia
and in Persia, is the very
district to which the Ten Tribes of Israel were
carried captive. Among these
the foremost tribe was Ephriam.
Proofs from Archaeology
In Sweden and on the shores
of the Baltic are found many huge burial mounds,
raised by the people there
in ancient times over their dead. "In Tanum parish, Bohuslan, alone there
are more than 2000 mounds, the largest being over 300
feet in circumference; in
Upsala nearly 600; at Ultana 700. The greatest number
found in any one spot is
east of the ancient Birka Bjorko, where there are over
1000 of them."
From Scandinavia to the
Baltic and thence southward, along the valley of the
river Dnieper in Russia down
to its mouth in the Black Sea, these mounds may
be followed, marking the
path of migration of some powerful people. The traveler,
Dr. E. J. Clarke, describes
the vast plains north of the caucasus in southern
Russia as being literally
covered by immense numbers of mounds. When any of these have been opened, they
prove to be tombs, "beautiful in workmanship and indicating
great skill in the art of building.
....In the toombs are found pottery, jewelry,
trinkets, bracelets, gold,
and precious stones." (Poole: Fifty Reasons Why the
Anglo-Saxons are
Israelities, p. 30; Carpenter: The Israelites Found, p. 30.)
According to Du Chaillu, the
ornaments and relics found in these mounds near
the Black Sea are
"remarkably alike" and
"exactly similar" to those found in
the mounds of Scandinavia
and the Baltic. (The Viking Age, Vol 1.
pp 216, 299.)
It now remains to ascertain
the identity of the ancient inhabitants who built
these remarkable mounds,
whom Herodotus calls the Chimmerians and Scythians.
Who Were These Mound-Builders
of Europe
These mounds are especially
numerous in the vicinity of the Crimea and the Kuban river. Ninety-one mounds
have been counted all in view at once. On the Crimean
Peninsula is a "Valley
of Jehosaphat" and a fortress called "Israel's fortress," which
is surrounded by hundreds of these tombs. The Russian Archaeological Soc-
iety has made extensive
excavations into these mounds and has unearthed hundreds
of epitaphs of tombs, some
of them of great antiquity, going back to pre-Christian
times. The inscriptions are
in the Hebrew language, and give indisputable proof
of the identity of the
people who made them. Here are translations of some of
them which were found in the
Crimea, and are now preserved in the Museum of
Petrograd:
"I am Jehudi, the son
of Moses, the son of Jehudah the mighty, a man of the tribe
of Naphtali, of the family
of Shimli, who was carried captive in the captivity of
Hoshea, King of Israel, with
the tribe of Simeon, together with other tribes of
Israel." (Translated by Rev. Stern.)
"To one of the faithful
in Israel, Abraham-ben-Mar-Sinchah of Kerich, in the year of our exile 1682,
when the envoys of the prince of Rosh Mesech came from Kiou to our
master, Chazar Prince David,
Halah, Habor and Gozan, to which places Tiglath Pileser
had exiled the sons of
Reuben and Gad and the Half Tribe of Manasseh, and permitted
them to settle there, and
from which they have been scattered throughout the entire
East, even as far as
China."
"This is the grave of
Buki, the son of Ischak (Issac), the priest.
May his rest
be in Eden at the time of
the deliverance of Israel. In the year 702 of the years
of our exile."
"Rabbi Moses Levi died
in the year 726 of our exile."
"Zadok the Levite, son
of Moses, died 4000 after the creation, 765 of our exile."
(This refers to the Karaite
era of the creation, which makes that event 3911 B.C.
So this last date would be
88-89 A.D.) (Carpenter: The Israelites
Found, p. 42;
Poole: Anglo-Israel, p. 453; Poole:
Fifty Reasons Why the Anglo-Saxons are Israelites, p. 31; Milner: Israel's Wanderings, p. 95.)
Thus tradition, history and
archaeology unite in tracing the ancestors of the
Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon
races to the region of the Black Sea, finding them
originally Israelites of the
captivity.
Ephriam's Marks of Identification
in the prophetic utterances
regarding the future of Ephriam are passages which
enable us to identify his
children and their part in history. Six of these are
selected.
1.
Ephriam should be wasted away in captivity and become few in mumbers.
"Though they bring up
their children, yet will I breave them....Ephriam shall
bring forth his children to
the murdered....Ephriam is smitted, their root is
dried up, they shall bear no
fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I
slay even the beloved fruit
of the womb." (See also the
prophecy of Jacob al-
ready quoted.) (Hosea 9:12:16; Alma 46:
24-26.)
2.
Ephriam should become "wanderers among the nations." (Moses 9:17.)
3.
Ephriam was to be scattered, "as the morning cloud, and as the
early
dew that passeth away, as
the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of
the floor, and as the smoke
out of the chimney." (Hosea 13:1,
3.)
4.
Ephriam was commanded: "Set
thee up waymarks, make high heaps: set thine heart to the highway, even the way
which thou wentest." (Jer. 31:21.)
5...After his chastisement Ephriam should
repent and be forgiven of the Lord.
(Jer. 31:15-20; Hosea 14:8.)
6.
Ephriam should "become a
multitude of nations." (Gen.
48:19.)
It is not difficult to find
the people fulfiling in history every one of these
predictions. The Chimmerians
and Scythians were formerly, while still in the
country of the Medes and
Assyriana, "inconsiderable and few."
They became shep-
herds and herdsmen, and
wandering nomads. As they increased they divided into
tribes and spread in
conquering waves of migration over Eurpoe, mixing "among
the people." The mounds
of the Black Sea region, of Scandinavia, and of elsewhere
in Europe are the waymarks
and high heaps of Ephriam. Finally after their period
of idolatry, of wanderings,
of ruthless wars and conquests, the Nordic nations
have arisen to greatness as
the "multitude of nations" of Europe and America fore-
seen of old by the patriarch
Jacob.
Evidence From Pedigrees
The eminent Jewish
commentator and historian, Moses Malmonides--who lived in the
13th century--in a
manuscript commentary on the Old Testament, reviews the bless-
ings which Jacob pronounced
upon his sons. He speaks of a certain Antenor, King
of the Cimmerians, who lived
443 B.C. This Antenor he termed
"the chief Prince of
Ephriam." In Hewbrew genealogy this would mean he was
probably oldest son of the
oldest son down from Ephriam
through Elishama and Joshua in patriarchal order of
descent.
From Antenor, a King of the
Cimmerians on the Black Sea, the earliest kings of the
Franks traced their descent,
through an ancient pedigree yet preserved. It is now
impossible, without more
knowledge of those early days, to either prove or dis-
prove the links of this
ancient record. It stands, like some tall pillar amid the
ruins of a once glorious
temple, the sole remaining evidence of former granduer.
If authentic, and it is the
best we yet have for that period, then we have an
actual record of lineage
from Antenor, "Chief Prince of Ephriam," to well-known
kings of England, France,
Germany and Spain. (See accompanying
pedigree.) The
lines of these rulers will
presently be continued to families now living among
us.
The son of Antenor was
Marcomir 1, King of the Sicambri. The Sicambrians "were originally
Scythians planted at the mouth of the Danube from whence they were
expelled by the Goths."
Marcomir led his people out of Scythia to the Danube,
and later "he with
175,658 men" was driven out of his home. "Then he planted them
in the country now called
West Frieszland, Gelders and Holland."
"The Kingdom of
Sicambria when first planted
was upon the borders of Germany, near the German Sea.
At their first coming they
were called Newmagae (or new Kindred), afterwards
Sicambri, and lastly
Franks." (Anderson: Royal
Genealogies, Table 371.) This
author adds,
"Historians have recorded these following Kings:
Antenor, King of the Cimmerians, 443 B.C.
(Called "Chief Prince of Ephriam.)
Marcomir, King of the Sicambri, now called
Franks.
Antenor
Priam. (They then first used the Saxon
language.)
Helenus
Diocles.
(he sided the Saxons against the Goths.)
Bassanus Magnus, King and Priest, married
the dau of Orcades, a Norwegian King.
Clodomir
Nicanor
Marcomir
Clodius
Antenor
Clodomir
Merodochus
Cassander
Antharius
Francus, King of the West Franks, B. C. 39.
Clodius
Marcomir, 111
Clodomir
Antenor, 1V
Ratherius, renewed league with Germans and
Saxons.
Richemer, 1.
Odomir
Marcomir, 1V
Clodomir, 1V.
Farabert, renewed the aancient league with
the Germans.
Sunno, fought with Romans and Gauls.
Hilderic
Bartherus
Clodius, 111
Walter
Dagobert
Genebald, Duke of the East Franks.
Dagobert
Clodius, 1
Marcomir, 1
Pharamond,
King of the Franks
Clodius
Sigimerus
Ferreolus
Ausbertus
Arnoldus
Sir Arnulf,
Bishop of Metz
Anchisus
Pepin of Heristal
Charles Martel
Pepin the Short
Charlemagne
Louis 1 of France
Charles 11 of France Louis of Germany Gisela of France
Judith of France Carloman of Germany Berenger 1 of Italy
Baldin 11 of Flanders Arnulph of Germany Gisela of Italy
Arnulph 1 of Flanders Edith of Germany Berenger 11 of Italy
Arnulph 11 of Flanders Henry 1 of Germany Adalbert of Italy
Baldwin 1V of Flanders Otto 1 of Germany Otto Wm. of Bourgogne
Baldwin V of Flanders Luitgarde of Germany Raynald, C of Bourgogne
Maltilda of Flanders Otto, Duke of Franconia William 1 of Bourgogne
Henry 1 of England Henry of Franconia Alfonso V11 of Castile
Conrad 11 of
Germany
Odin of the North
The mythological literature
of Scandinavia "bears evidence of a belief prevalent among the people that
their ancestors congregated at a remote period from the
shores of the Black Sea,
through a south-western Russia, to the shores of the
Baltic." (Paul Du
Chaillu: The Viking Age, 1, p. 216.) Long after this first migration, according
to the sagas, a great conqueror Odin ruled in Asaland or Asaheim, where the
chief city, Asgard, "was a great sacrificing place. It was
customary there that twelve
temple-priests were the foremost, and had charge of
the sacrifice and judged
between men....Odin was a great warrior and traveled far
and wide, and became owner
of many countries....It was his custom, when he sent
his men into fight or on
other errands, first to lay his hands on their heads
and give them bjanak; they
believed that luck would then be with them.
As
Odin was foreknowing....he
knew that his descendants would live in the northern
part of the world."
With the temple priests and a great company he marched
through Russia, Saxony,
Denmark, and finally settled in Old Sigtuna in Sweden.
"There he made a great
temple and sacrificed according to the custom of the Asar." He had many
sons, and left his sons to rule over and defend his conquests. He
ordered that over great men mounds should be raised
as memorials. "Odin was
a great law-giver,
prescribing rules for the people in peace and war, detailing
the manner of offering
sacrifice, and insturcting men how best to please the
Gods." When he died in
Sweden "the Swedes thought he had gone to old Asgard, and
would live forever. Then
there arose the worship of
Odin." (Snorri Sturiason:
Ynglinga Saga, c, 2-9;
Cronholm: History of Sweden, p. 34.)
"When Odin arrived with
his twelve pontiffs or chief priests, he is said to
have found that a great part
of the land was occupied by a people who, like himself, had come from Svithied
(i.e. Scythia); but in such long ages past that, according to their own
account, no one could fix the time." Odin's people settled "upon the
islands and coast
lands" of the Baltic and German oceans, intermarrying with the
"older tribes of Kelts,
Kimri and others, who, in their turn--but long before--
had also come from beyond
the shores of the Black Sea."
(Otte: Scandinavia, pp.
6, 59.)
From this Odin or Woden
descended most of the kingly and noble races of the
north. "When reading
the Saga literature we are particularly struck by the
frequent references made to
pedigrees in which the people of the North took
great pride. There are three
great genealogical branches through which the
Northern chiefs traced their
descent from Odin." (Du Chaillu:
The Viking
Age, Vol 1, p. 66.)
Of these three branches that
of the Skjoldunga or line of Danish kings des-
cended from Skjold, son of
Odin, is reproduced on the chart which follows.
"Skjold was the son of
Odin, from whom the Skjoldunga are descended. He dwelt
in and ruled over the lands
now called Danmork, which were than called Gotland.
Skjold had a son Fridleif,
who ruled the lands after him. Fridleif's son Frodi
got the kingship after his
father." (Later Edda.
Skaldskaparmal, c. 43.)
The various tribes who
settled in England all preserved pedigrees deducing
their rulers from this same
Odin. These pedigrees kept independently by the
different tribes form the
best evidence that he actually lived and reigned in
the north, and left
descendants. Moreover, several of these ancient records
give Woden's ancestors for a
number of generations. A glance at the accom-
panying table will show how
the pedigree of Odin's forebears kept by one tribe
tallies closely with those
kept by others, with but minor changes in spelling
and occasionally an omitted
or added name. When we compare the Anglo-Saxon
lineages with one found in
the ancient Icelandic document, the Langfedgatal,
we find the Scandinavians
had an almost identical record of his projenitors.
In lview of this, we are
forced to conclude, with Sharon Turner, "Some of the
most authentic genealogies
indicate Woden to have been a real personage."
An examination of the
following lines of lineage will show the progeny of Odin
or Woden traced to nine
representative nations of Europe. In the next pedigree
these lines are in turn
followed until they merge in one common ancestress,
Eleanor Welles. From her the
line is direct to William Goddard, who emigrated to
New England. This William
Goddard was great-grandfather to Samuel Goddard,
through whose two daughters
are derived numerous prominent families in
the
Church. A few typical
descents are shown, connecting with Presidents of the
Church, members of the
Quorum of the Twelve, Presidents of Stakes and Presid-
ents of Missions, a
President of the Seventy and Church Commissioner of Education.
Because of the great
interest in the forefathers of the
Prophet Joseph Smith,
a probably line of his
ancestry is also shown.
Thus from pedigrees,
prophecy, history, archaeology and tradition evidence has
been found to substantiate
our teachings that we are "the servants of the Lord,
even the children of
Ephriam." (Doc. and Cov.
133:32.) To us has descended
the precious birthright of
the chosen seed and covenant race. With it we have inherited great privileges,
great opportunities, great blessings and mighty
responsibilities. What other
meaning can we read from these words of the Lord
to us:
"Thus saith the Lord
unto you, with whom the Priesthood hath continued through
the lineage of your fathers,
"For ye are lawful heirs
according to the flesh, and have been kept hid from the world with Christ in
God;
"Therefore your life
and the Priesthood hath remained and must needs remain through you and your
lineage, until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths
of the holy prophets since
the world began.
"Therefore, blessed are
ye if ye continue in my goodness, a light unto the Gentiles,
and through this Priesthood,
a savoir unto my people Israael. The Lord hath said it.
Amen.
The Genealogy of
Woden"
Ancestor of the Norse and
Anglo-Saxon Kings
(Comparative tables showing pedigrees
kept by different tribes.)
Iceland Wessex Kent E. Anglia Essex Mercia
Source Source Asser: Source Source Source
The Lang- Wm. of Florence Florence Anglo- Anglo-
fedgetal Malmes- of Win-
of Win- Saxon Saxon
bury chester chester Chronicle Chronicle
Seskef Strefius Seth Setj Sceaf
Bedweg Bedweg Beadwig Beadwi Bedwig
Hwala Wala Wala Hwala
Athra Hathra Hathra Hathra Hrawa Hathra
Itormann Itermon Itermod Itermod Itermon Itermon
Hetemotr Heremod Heremod Heremod Heremod Heremod
Sceaf
Scealdna Sceldwia Sceldwea Sceadwala Sceldwea Sceldwa
Beaf Beowi Beow Beaw Beaw Beaw
Tecti Taetwa Cetwa Tactwa Taetwa
Eat Geti Geata Geta Geat Geata
Godulf Godwlf Godulf Godwlf Godwuff Godwuff
Finn Finn Finn Finn Finn Finn
Frithuwulf Frithowlf Frithuwulf
Frealaf Frelaf Frealaf Frealaf Frealaf
Frealof
Fridewold Frithowald Frithewald Frithuwald
Woden or Odin
(References: Searle:
Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, p. 251;
Sharon Turner: History of the Anglo-Saxon, pp. 163-167.)
Woden or Odin
l
l----------------------l------------------l
Beldeg Witelgetha Skield of Denmark
Brand Waga Fridleaf
Frithogar Withleg Fridfrod
Freawin Weremund Fridleaf
Wig Offa Havar
Gewis Engengeate Frodi
Eala Eomerus Vermand
Elesa Ichel Olaf the Mild
Cerdic Cnobba Dan the Proud
Cynric Cunebald Frodi the Peaceful
Ceawlia Crida,King of Mercia Halfdan
Cuthwine Wibba,King of Mercia Fridleif
Ceolwald dau of Wibba,mother of Frodi the
Valiant
Coenred Cadwalladyr of Wales Halfdan
Ingild Edwal Heigi l
Eoppa Ithodri ___l_________________
Eaba Cynan l l
Eahlmund Eissylt Yrsa Rolf Kraki
Egbert Merfyn Freich Eystein Hroar
Ethelwulf Rhodri,King of Wales Yngvar Valdar
Alfred theGreat Anarwrd Bre ut-onund Halfdan
Edward 1 Elise Ingiald Ivar Vidfadmi
_________l_________ Prawst Olaf 1 of Aude
l l LLEWELLYN of No.Wales Norway
Randver
Edmund 1 Hadgifu
Edith of Halfdan
1 Sigurd Ring
Edgar Charles Con- England Eystein 1 Ragnar Lodbrog
ETHELRED stantine of
Luitgarde of Halfdan
11 l
11 of Eng. Vienne of Germany Gundrod of l
Patton, Count Otto of Vestfold l
Vienne Franconia _____________________l l
Gerard,Count Henry of
l l _____________l
of Vienne Franconia
Halfdan Olaf 11 of l
l
_ Stephanie of CONRAD 11
the Black Vestfold Biorn 1
Ivar Beinlaus
Vienne of Germany Harold 1
Rognwald of Unsala dau of Ivar
Raymond of of Norway of Jutland
Erie 111 mother of
Burgundy Erie 1 Aseda of
Edmund 1 Sithrie 1
ALFONSO V11 Harold 11 Jutland
Erie V of Deblin
of Castile Bertrade Rognwald,
Biorn 111 Olaf (Aulaf)
and Leon of Norway Earl of
Erie V1 Sithrie 11
Gertrude More
Olaf 111 Auloed
of Saxony Rolf,Duke
of Sweden of Dublin
Bertha
of ofNormandy Ingegerd Maelmuir
Holland William 1
of Sweden Tadhg of
LOUIS V1 Richard 1 md. Ossory
of
France Richard 11 JAROSLAV
Dearbforgall
l of Kief MURCERTAC
l 11 King of
l Ireland
__________________l
l l
Robert, Duke
of Alice of
Normandy Normandy
WILLIAM The William 1 of
Conqueror Bourgogne
Gisela of
Bourgogne
WILLIAM 1,
Marquis of
Montferrat
The Children of Ephriam
England
Ethelred 11 of
Italy England France
Edmund Ironside
WILLIAM, M. de Edward the Exile LOUIS V1 of Fance
Montferrat Margaret of England LOUIS V11 of France
Alice de Montferrat Matilda of Scotland Philip 11 of France
Bonifacio di Saluzzo Matilda of England Louis V111 of France
Manfredo 111 di Saluzzo Henry 11 of England Louis 1X of France
Tomaso, Marquis di
Saluzzo John of England Philip 111 of France
Alice di Saluzzo Henry 111 of England md. Margaret of France
EDMUND FITZ-ALAN EDWARD 1 of England
Alice Fitz-Alan Thomas, Earl of Norfolk
Lord John Segrave md. Margaret of Norfolk
Elizabeth Segrave
Eleanor Mowbray
ELEANOR WELLES
_________________________________________________________________________________
Normandy
Wales
ROLF, Duke of
Normandy
LLEWELLYN of N.
William 1 of Normandy Germany Wales
Richard 1 of Normandy
Griffith 1 of N.Wales
Richard 11 of Normandy CONRAD 11, Emp. of Nesta of N. Wales
Robert of Normandy Germany Nesta
WILLIAM, the Henry 111 of Germany Sybil de Newmarsh
Conqueror Henry 1V of Germany Bertha de Hereford
Henry 1 of England Agnes of Germany Bertha de Braose
Matilda of England Frederick 11 of Suabia William de Beauchamp
Henry 11 of England Frederick Barbarossa Walter de Beauchamp
John of England Mary of Germany William de Beauchamp
Henry 111 of England Maud of Brabant William de Beauchamp
Edmund, Earl of
Lancaster md.Blamche of Artois Isabel de Beauchamp
HENRY
PLANTAGENET md.MAUD CHAWORTH
Joan
Plantagenet
Lord John
Mowbray
Eleanor Mowbray
ELEANOR WELLES
____________________________________________________________________________________
Russia
JAROSLAV 1
Prince of Kief
md.
Ingegerd of
Sweden
Anne of
Kief Ireland
Hugh de
Vermandola
Spain Isabel de Vermandois MURCHERTAC 11 of
Robert de
Beaumont Ireland
ALFONSO V11 of Robert de Beaumont Lafracoth O'Brien
Castile Margaret de Beaumont Alice de Montgomery
Ferdinand 11 of Leon Robert de Quincy Gerald Fitz-Gerald
Alfonso 1X of Leon Margaret de Quincy Maurice Fitz-Gerald
Ferdinand 111 of
Castile Maud de Lacy Maurice Fitz-Gerald
ELEANOR OF CASTILE Thomas de Clare md.Juliane Fitz-Gerald
Joan Plantagenet ______________ l
Elizabeth de Clare l _l
Elizabeth D'Amorie MARGARET DE CLARE
Margaret Bardolf Margaret de Badlesmere
Lord John Welles md. Maud de Rood
l________
l
Lord John
Welles
ELEANOR
WELLES md. Hugh Poynings
Constance
Poynings md. Sir John Paulet
Sir John
Paulet
Sir John Paulet
Eleanor
Paulet md. Sir William Gifford
Sir William
Gifford
Anne
Gifford md. Thomas Goddard
Richard Goddard
Edward Goddard
William
Goddard
Edward Goddard
Ebenezer
Goddard
Susannah
Goddard md. Phineas Howe
l
________________________________________________l
l l
Rhoda Howe Abigail Howe md. John Young
l________________________
__l__________________
l l l l
Willard Richards Phineas Richards President Brigham Young Joseph Young
Stephen L. Franklin D. l Seymour B.
Richards Richards l Young
Stephen L. George F. l l
Richards Richards l __________________l
(of the twelve) (of the twelve) l l l
l Levi Edgar Clifford Earle
l Young Young
l (of the first (Pres. of
l Council of Alpine Stake)
l Seventy.)
l
l
__________________________________________l_______________________________
l
l l l l l
Willard Brigham Joseph A. Phebe Louisa Susa Zina
Young
Morris Young Young Young Young
l
Young l l l l
Harriet l Richard Hazel Young Leah Zina Young
Young
Alice A. Snow Young Beattie Danford. Card
md.
Young l md. md. md.
Nephi L. md. Minerva Edward P. John A. Hugh B.
Morris
Noah S. Pond Young Kimball Widtsoe Brown
(Ex. Pres. (Pres.North- md.
(Pres.German (Of the (Pres. of
Salt Lake
ern States Adam S. Austrian Twelve and Granite
Stake.)
Mission.) Bennion Mission.) Pres. Stake.)
European
Mission.)
References: For proofs for the line from Susannah Goddard
to Eleanor Welles,
see the "Ancestry of
Brigham Young" printed in Utah Genealogical Magazine this
number. From Eleanor Welles
the line can be followed in any good book on the
Peerage. For convenience see
Turton's Plantaganet Ancestry, where by means of
charts all the above lines may be quickly
traced back to the more ancient part of the pedigree. This book gives full
references.
The Children of Ephriam
LOUIS V11 of France
Alice of France
Marie of Ponthles
Joan of Dammartin
Eleanor of Castile
md. EDWARD 1 MARGARET DE
Of England Clare
l l
l l
EDWARD FITZ-ALAN HENRY PLANTAGENET Elizabeth Plantagenet l
md. MAUD CHAWORTH l l
Richard Fitz-Alan md.
Eleanor Plantagenet Wm. de Bohun md. Elizabeth de Bad-
l lesmere.
Richard Fitz-Alan md. Elizabeth de
Bohun
l
Elizabeth Fitz-Alan
Elizabeth Goushill
Elizabeth Wingfield
Elizabeth Brandon
Thomas Garnon
Augustin Garnon
Sir Richard Garnon
Mary Garnon
Beatrice Felton md. Thomas Colby
ANTHONY COLBY
Sarah Colby
Sarah Bagler md. John Mack
Ebenezer Mach
Solomon Mach
Lucy Mach md. Joseph Smith Sr.
l
________________l___________________________________
l
l
Patriarch Hyrum Smith Joseph Smith, the
Prophet
l
_______________________________________________
l l
Patriarch John Smith President Joseph F. Smith
Hyrum F. Smith l
Partriarch Hyrum G.
Smith l
__________________________________________________________________________
l
l l l l l l
Hyrum Mack Joseph Field- Melissa
Willard R Andrew K Agnes
Lucy Mack
Smith
ing Smith Smith Smith
Smith Smith Smith
(Of the (Of the md. md.
(Supt. of (of Gen. (Formerly
Twelve.)
Twelve.) John F. Florence
Research Board
of Gen.
Bowman Grant Bureau Y.L.M.I.A.) Board
(Mayor of (Dau. of
Gen. Soc. Y.L.M.I.A.)
Salt Lake Pres. Heber
of Utah.)
City. J. Grant.)
(Each of the above names in
capitals is contained on the chart above this. (Two
pages of the magazine.)
Note: The above pedigree is given as the probable
descent only. There is good
auithority for every link
back to ANTHONY COLBY, but, so far as the writer can learn, it has never been
absolutely proved that Anthony Colby, who emigrated to Boston in 1630, is
identical with Anthony Colby, son of Thomas Colby and Beatrice
Felton of Beccles, Suffolk.
The evidence for this identity seems based on the fact that he came with
Govenor Winthrop from Suffolk, that he was one of twelve children.
(Mack Gen. vol. 11, p 1352),
that only two Anthony Colbys have been found in the
English Visitations and the
older one died without heirs (ob.s.p., Visitations
of Norfolk, p 62.)
The remaining one was of
about the right age to be the emigrant who was born in
1590. The connection as
given has been published a number of times, as in "Amer-
icans of Royal Descent," Jones: "Ancestors of My Daughters,
" "History of the
Colby Family," by James
W. Colby, and in Anderson's "Ancestry and Posterity of
Joseph Smith and Emma
Hale." For the English pedigree
beginning with Thomas
Colby and Beatrice Felton
who had 12 children, see Metcalf's Visitations of
Suffolk, and Rye's
Visitations of Norfolk. For the Fitz-Alan ancestors see
"Complete Peerage"
by G.W.C. Turton's "Plantagenet Ancestry and Lane's "Royal
Daughters of England."
From the Era (now Ensign) of
February 1961:
Strangely enough when the state of Israel
was reborn in 1945 it was a
nation of 600,000, the same
number which the Bible records that Moses led
out of bondage in Egypt. It
now numbers some two million, the same number
which it is said populated
the ancient kingdom of Solomon when Israel was
in all its glory. That is
why we may now say that the Jews have returned
to Palestine, on a land one
tenth the size of Utah. They have nearly a half
million more people than we
have in the whole church, and they have about
258 people for each square
mile in Palestine, which is a dense population.
At the same time, 1961,
there were about ten to a square mile in Utah.