The Diamond of Genealogy

We Are All Descendants from Lucy, and Therefor Related to Each Other

I have come up with a basic model for the genealogy world and it is in the simple shape of a diamond, not a two dimensional diamond, but the shape of a real diamond, like the ones that you buy at the store for your girlfriend or your wife or somebody very special. If you think about it, that is what genealogy looks like because when you research your ancestors, it actually starts with you. You or whoever is the youngest person in your family is the bottom tip of the diamond and your or I will say “our oldest ancestor, which would be Lucy, is the top tip of the diamond and the lines that connect and make the shape of the diamond is everybody else and we are all related and simply just fractions of each other. Another way to look at this is the native Irish race. Pretend you are God for a moment and let's say you decide to put a few people on an island. Well it's been a few thousand years since that has happened, and it's been about 5,000 years since the first people colonized Ireland and there are a lot more people on the Island now; almost all the native Irish are related to each other.

The native Irish can be traced back to Magog who was the son of Japhet who was the son of Noah. In the paternal lineage and before the Irish were Irish, they were from the Iberian Peninsula, which we now call Spain and the first people to colonize the Iberian Peninsula were the ancient Scythian people. They are precisely descended from Phoenissua Farsaidh or Fenius Farsa who was the first King of Scythia. King Phoeniusa was the son of Boath who was the son of Magog who was the son of Japhet. Phoenisusa's son Niul had a son named Gaodhal or Gathelus is the ancest of the people that we now call the Gales who came to Ireland. 

To Make a long story short, Breoghan, King of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile and Portugal, had a son Bile who was also king of those countries and he had a son named Milesius. Breoghan by the way was a direct descendant in the male line of King Phoeniusa. Melisus, who became King of Scythia, left Scythia because of a conflict with another king, and went to Egypt. There he gained the favor of Necho II, Pharaoh of Egypt (c.660 BC-c.595 BC) who gave the hand of his daughter, Scota in marriage to Milesus. Melisus stayed in Egypt for 8 years and then went back to the Iberian Peninsula with his people. After the Iberien Peninsula was plagued by his Gods he left and went to Ireland what was then called Eire. Milesius and his people conquered Ireland and the island eventually became known as Eire after a queen and then Eiren and then Ireland; the land of Eire. His son Hermon, became the 2nd High King of Ireland. 

So the native Irish and people of Irish descent, the Spanish people and Spanish descents, Egyptian and Egyptian descendants all related to each other and are all descendants of ancient Scythian, Egyptian and Spanish royalty.The Irish are also descendants of the ancient Israelites. By the way, it is from the ancient Spanish that some of the native Irish are what we call Dark or Black Irish, which is skin that is a little darker and black hair and black eyes. Also, we have Jewish ancestry as do the Britains because they too are actually descendants from the ancient Gale people. Since I was fourteen years old and I am 39 now, this is what has kept me going, not just finding out who I am, but why I was born the way I was and why I am the way that I am. Perhaps the most ancient words of God are “I am that I am;” and in Shapeskear’s Othello, Iago says “I am not who I am,” meaning I am not who people think I am.

When I read that for the first time when I was in high school, that really touched me and I completely understood it and has always been in the back of my head ever since.  Also if you think about it, that’s a lot of people with learning disabilities/learning differences. The more I research genealogy the more I understand why I am the way I am and I also understand why other people are the way they are. Genealogy has given me a great comprehension of the history of and of the present day world cultures and how they came to be. One thing that I have learned is that understanding the past is understanding the present. For further reading, please look at Irish Pedigrees, by John O’Hart, p’s 44-53, Vol. 1.

The following are just a few of my favorite quotes about genealogy and history. 

“Where are the heroes of the ages past?

Where the brave chieftains, where the mighty onces

Who flourished in the infancy of days?

All to the grave gone down.”

-Henry Kirke White

“”Man is but the sum of his ancestors.”

-Emerson

“Our character is not so much the product of race and hereditary as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”   -Marcus Tullius Cicero

“All ancient history was write with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of posterity’s denunciations.”    -Cornelius Tacitus