France
The overwhelming majority of your lineage comes from France. An old country of Western Europe, a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, whose language, ideas and taste have spread across the whole world.
Before France, there was Gaul: a group of Celtic peoples, the Gauls, whom Rome conquered in the 1st century BCE and deeply Romanised. This is where French comes from. At the fall of Rome, Germanic peoples settled, among them the Franks of Clovis, who gave the country its name.
An extract of the Book as it is rendered, for the French lineage used as the example on the past page.
One chapter per country
Each country that weighs in your lineage has its own chapter. Each follows the same thread: the country in brief, its geography, the peoples and the history, the language, the religion, the culture and the art of living, with its map and a timeline of its dates.
Beneath the main chapter come your deep roots: the prehistoric peoples you descend from, dated, with their share.
The page is the Book. You print it to keep a paper or PDF copy, for yourself or as a gift.
Where the text comes from
Which chapters make up your Book, their order and their share are computed for you. The text of a country, however, is the same for everyone: it is documentation written in advance, country by country, and checked. We do not manufacture stories about your ancestors, because we do not know them.
Documentary narrative for cultural and recreational purposes, with no genetic or diagnostic value.
The Book follows your lineage.
Trace it first, and it opens next, already filled in.