How do I find out if we are related to Lady Jane Seymour?

Question

I have been told that our Seymour line is related to Lady Jane Seymour's family. How do I check this out?

Answer 1

Is this the one you mean?
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Seymour-225

Take her WikiID (Seymour-225) and your own WikiID (Rasband-145) and put them into the Relationship Finder.

Comments

Or go to her profile and, on the dropdown menu headed 'Seymour-225', scroll down until you hit 'Relationship to Me', and click on that.

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This did it thank you!! We are connected via the Rasband line and the Seymour line via Elizabeth (Mortimer) Camoys 1371-1417. I will spread the word. It has been a myth through the centuries for my family. There is talk about a family Bible and a stamp and Knights of Templar. Good stuff!!!

Thank you so much for all the ideas. Than you Ros Haywood for the suggestion to check the relationships.

Answer 2

I am in the middle of a small Tudor era obsession at the moment and just finished all of Phillipa Gregory's historical fiction books ( which are really great and as she is a historian quite accurate ) and I would love to know this answer for this person specifically and several others such as Mary Queen of Scotts or Elizabeth Woodville or even Lady Margaret Beaufort!

Answer 3

The only way to do that is to take your Seymour ancestors back one generation at a time back to the 1500s. There's no guarantee that they are connected to Lady Jane Seymour. It could be just a family story. Or you could get lucky and connect to an existing line.

Here's one step. The earliest Seymour in your tree is  Charles Dwight Seymour, born 1863 in Hadley Mass.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Seymour-6474

There's a Charles D. Seymour in the 1880 census. Born 1863, living in Hadley, Mass, the son of Edwin H. Seymour (age 54, born 1826 in Mass.) and Julia D. Seymour.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6G-VXZ

But there's still a long way to go.

Comments

Thank you, Vance. One ancestor at a time, with sources and citations for every step!