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This work, in four volumes, takes the documented ancestry of Richard Weaver to notable historical figures in medieval history. To name just a few, in these pages you will find numerous Holy Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, kings of England, France, Scotland, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Ireland. Many Catholic and Orthodox saints are also highlighted. The bulk of this work focuses upon Great Britain, specifically England as well as France, the Holy Roman Empire, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. There are many ancestors who came from Russia and Spain, as well. These three volumes contain 82 of our illustrations, 1,467 pages, 540,686 words and 8,805 footnotes and references. The references that are used, in most cases, are the same as those used by hereditary societies to track the ancestry of their applicants. These are listed in the bibliography at the end of each volume.ORGANIZATION: This book begins with Richard Weaver as the first person in generation 1. She is listed as person number 1. Generation 2 consists of her parents as persons 2 and 3. Generation 3 shows the four grandparents as persons 4, 5, 6, and 7 and so forth. Every generation begins on a new page. To find any person’s father, double their number. To find that person’s mother, double their number and add 1. Some numbers are missing as not every person’s parents are known. Where a person appears more than once, subsequent entries refer you back to the first occurrence. This follows the numbering pattern on a standard pedigree chart and is known as an ahnentafel pedigree. Each generation, theoretically, has twice as many people in it as the previous one. Obviously, not all ancestors are known and once you get into medieval times close relatives often married and shared ancestors. This is called pedigree collapse. Even so, in 30 generations there are over 1 billion possible ancestors in that generation. 230 = 1,073,741,824 ancestors. The database software that I use to keep track of all this generates