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Michel Call's massive three-volume opus, The Royal Ancestry Bible: Royal Ancestors of 300 Colonial Families, is the outgrowth of more than 30 years of research and writing about royal and noble genealogy. Containing 3,400 genealogical charts, this work attempts to track all known descents from English or French kings or the Emperor Charlemagne for all American colonists who have at least 20,000 descendants. Bound in three handsome volumes, this remarkable work traces the origins of 300 American colonists to the Middle Ages. Nine years in preparation, The Royal Ancestry Bible documents more ancestry for more people than almost any other work ever published.

When he began work on The Royal Ancestry Bible in 1996, Mr. Call did not anticipate that it would consume the next nine years of his genealogical life. His inspiration was the publication in that year of Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists by the late David Faris and his announced intention to complete a series of books on the descent of colonists from the Magna Carta Sureties, from the earlier feudal English barons and from the Emperor Charlemagne. Given the scope of the Faris project, Mr. Call decided that many users of Faris's monographs would benefit from a presentation of his lines of descent on detailed pedigree charts.

In the year 2000, Mr. Call began working with Faris and royal genealogy expert Douglas Richardson on a Magna Carta manuscript they were preparing for publication. Mr. Call later reviewed Faris's Carolingian (Charlemagne) manuscript and, following the latter's untimely death, scrutinized Faris's 1,714-page baronial manuscript. Douglas Richardson, meanwhile, inherited Faris's work and ultimately published two expansive works in the field, both now available from Genealogical Publishing Company: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2004) and Magna Carta Ancestry (2005).

By way of distinction, the beginning person on each of Mr. Call's charts is always someone born before 1690 and usually an American colonist; a child of colonists, both of whom have royal ancestry; or a parent of multiple colonists. The compiler has endeavored to include all known descents for these colonists from English or French kings or the Emperor Charlemagne. Each chart has been finished as completely as possible, but all lines with no descent from kings are terminated at the end of the chart.

Readers of The Royal Ancestry Bible will also find charted the full known ancestry of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York (b. 21 Sep. 1411) and Cecily Neville (b. 3 May 1415), who are ancestors of numerous English and Scottish kings and queens and of various American colonists. Finally, the appendix to Mr. Call's three-volume opus includes (1) tie-ins for additional colonists who were born after 1690 or whose lines have not been fully charted for various reasons, and (2) all known royal/noble tie-ins for 22 Presidents of the U.S.

For a list of the main royal lines listed in this remarkable work, CLICK HERE.