British pensioner creates world's biggest family tree - after tracing 10,000 ancestors

A pensioner is claiming a world record for the biggest family tree after tracing nearly 10,000 relatives and ancestors.

Roy Blackmore says he had discovered that his ancestors include farmers, monks, a Wild West cowboy, Civil War soldiers, a king of France - and even William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great.

The 76-year-old from Taunton, Somerset, has spent 28 years and around £20,000 piecing together his family history.
Most of his research was carried out before the arrival of the internet, meaning he had to travel the country to study archives, cemetery records and census registers.

His tree stretches back to the Cerdick family in 500 AD and includes William the Conqueror in the 11th century and Alfred the Great in 880 AD.

He has listed 9,390 ancestors and relatives and has applied to the Guinness Book of Records to claim the title for the world's largest documented family tree.

Roy, of Taunton, Somerset, said: "It's been a very interesting journey which has taken some surprising twists and turns. One of the most shocking discoveries was that I'm a descendant of Alfred the Great.

"My interest started after I was orphaned as a child and and became curious about my family background. Since then, I have been searching high and low for information on my family.

"There have been some very frustrating times when I seemingly hit a brick wall. But there is always a way around or over an obstacle and you just have to persevere.

"When I started I never planned to go back that far but the more I looked the more interested I became. It's been incredibly interesting.

"I could go back further into my French descendants but I think I'll leave it as it is. I think I'll leave it there."

Roy, a former buyer for a perfume company, was fostered along with three of his six brothers and sisters when their parents Hubert and Ida died in 1931.

He began developing his family tree in 1980 and spent up to five hours a day scouring documents he collected from archives, libraries, cemetery records and census registers in London.

His tree stretches back to the Cerdick family in 500 AD and includes the French Royal family and Hugh Capet - a 10th century King of France.

Roy can also link himself through 37 generations to William the Conqueror in the 11th Century and 45 generations to Alfred the Great in 880AD.

He said: "The records show that my family were yeoman from around the 10th century when monks first started recording births. continues here

Well done to Mr Blackmore in tracing his family tree, it is I should imagine an enjoyable and rather fascinating pastime, we all come from somewhere and we are all unique. A family tree is more than a topic of study though, more than an interesting pastime, it is the continuance of a unique set of genes, genes that have evolved quite naturally through the ages. Mr Blackmore remarks that, “My grandchildren aren't too interested but I'm sure they will want to know more about their family as they grow older”. We would hope they do however, lack of interest in history or “where we came from” cannot be put down merely to youth, there has been a conscious effort to distort or even negate our history, until we now have the situation whereby many young people, have neither the interest nor indeed the desire to preserve their unique genotype. In fact that once most loathed of acts, miscegenation is now almost the norm, there is though, still the recognition that such an act is contemptible, albeit it a now unspoken recognition.

Miscegenation or race-mixing ruins forever the family tree, the unique genotype, introducing alien elements both into the gene pool and the nation, we can of course lie, pretend that there is nothing wrong with this however, such an act is both selfish and destructive. To a large degree miscegenation is still the preserve of the shameless, the slattern, attractive only to low women and aging white males however, this is changing, as the relentless tide of pro-destructive television programmes take their toll, the very word itself, programme is more descriptive than we first realised in that, the little box in the corner, programmes us to accept things we perhaps wouldn’t, if we were not subconsciously told to do so. Television holds such power; it has the capacity to create a seemingly personal world, between the viewer and itself, to fully immerse the viewer in a world of its own making.

On television miscegenation is never an evil, never the threat it is in reality, homosexuals are always funny, not skulking around in public toilets “cottaging” or despoiling beauty-spots with their aberrant behaviour, negroes are always so really very nice, decent chaps, caring, funny, sensitive, law-abiding, yet beset by evil bigoted white racists, said racists exhibiting quite appalling character traits. The negro invariably is portrayed as the victim, getting both the girl and one supposes the sympathy, television now, knowing it has corrupted the minds of many young white girls, has set out to corrupt a harder target the young white male, soap operas, now depict many inter-racial relationships as occurring between a negress and a white-male.

Yet the black female, is not as a rule attractive to the white male, not that is, unless there are some quite white features in evidence, one has only to look to black female celebrities to see that this is the case, in almost all cases the female in question exhibits white characteristics physically. Try it yourself, create a test, write down as many famous black females as you can and then check, in most cases white characteristics will be quite dominate. Of course soft focus and make-up departments will aid this process and many that appear less negroid, will in fact not come over quite so attractive in the flesh, it is quite simply fact, that the more white features held by “black” female celebrities, the more attractive they are to the masses. Even within the black community in almost any setting, lighter skin tone and more European-like features, are considered more attractive, millions of pounds are spent every year on skin lighting creams and hair straightening products.

Some cultures place themselves at considerable risk health-wise, merely to look a little whiter, to appear more attractive to a potential mate, of course our own women lie beneath harmful rays, believing quite erroneously as it happens, that a tanned skin is more attractive for similar reasons. Miscegenation, race-mixing is disastrous to whites given that the end product is black, it is quite simply impossible, for a mixed race couple to produce a white child, although there are cases where to the eye, a child can appear white however, in general this is not the case. People rant and rave over Islam playing up what is merely a religion, as thee threat to the west, I beg to differ the greatest threat to the west is race-mixing, for once the gene-pool is mixed there is no come- back no return.

In the UK mixed race individuals are the fastest growing “community” and must therefore be considered the greatest threat, I am a racialist, I hide behind nothing, I state my case and as a racialist I recognise that every race, be it white, black or oriental must be preserved must be protected. Quite simply in numerical terms the white race faces the greatest threat, our numbers simply cannot survive constant intermixture, at some point we will on current trends die out. There will be no-more Mr Blackmore’s able to trace his family tree, at least no white Mr Blackmore’s, we work to protect the elephant, the polar bear all sorts of creatures from extinction, isn’t it about time we worked to protect ourselves. 14

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