A Genealogical History of Europe

This book, volume 2, contains the notes and source references to A Genealogical History of Europe volume 1, third edition. The 5,498 references and notes in this volume are displayed as endnotes. In the Kindle E-book, second edition, the text, references and notes were all included in the same volume, because in the E-Book, the reader can click the superscript reference number, and it switches immediately to the reference. In a printed book, this is not possible. Because of the large number of references, footnotes are not possible, and it was necessary to use the less desirable alternative of endnotes. To avoid the necessity of continually referring to the end of the book, the endnotes are printed in a separate volume. This allows the reader to read references without leafing back and forth between the text and the end of the book. As described in volume 1, most of the people living in Europe today are descended from the many tribes that migrated into the Roman Empire, beginning in about 200 BC. The book examines the history of these Nordic, Germanic, Arabic, Magyar and Slavic tribes, from the time of the Great Migration until they formed the European states that we know today. It also provides thirty-nine documented genealogies of the leaders of these tribes until modern times. After many centuries of intermarriage, these people, from all over Europe, are all now related to one another. All thirty-nine documented genealogies lead, in a direct line of descent, to one specific person, born in 1572 in Little Haughton, Northamptonshire, England, and to his grandson who immigrated to Virginia in 1669 at the age of eighteen. The book illustrates the validity of Professor Chang's (Yale University) work that showed, all people born more than eight hundred years ago in Europe, are the ancestors of virtually all people now living in Europe and its American colonies. The content includes: - 39 genealogies of people from 21 European countries. - Biographies of those 39 people, with primary and secondary sources. - 606 names in the Genealogies. - 110 pictures and maps. - 5,498 documentary references to names in the genealogies.