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Index of Topics
  British Isles
    England
      Pre-Conquest (Anglo-Saxon pedigrees)
      Post-Conquest Nobility (Anglo-Norman Kings & Earls)
      Post-Conquest Gentry (Local families)
      Colonial Ancestry
    Wales (including pre-Anglo-Saxon British)
    Scotland
      Gaelic
      Post-Gaelic (Balliol and after)
    Ireland
    Scandinavian (Man, Hebrides, York, Dublin, etc.)

  Scandinavia
    Viking era (including Viking activity abroad)
    Post-Viking era

  Netherlands

  France
    Merovingian
    Carolingian (including the origin of the Capetian Nobility)
    Capetian
    Norman (pre- and immediately post-Conquest)

  Germany

  Iberia

  Italy

  Slavic (Poland, Bohemia, etc.)

  Russia

  Other Regions (China, Asia, Native American)

  Unusual descents
    Descents From Antiquities
    Muslim and Jewish descents
    Maternal lineages and X lines

  Methods and Principles
    Degree of Relationship