How Do I find royal profiles?

Question

Sometimes I have the most difficult time locating a certain monarch's (royalty) profile on this site.  Is there an easy way to know what name to use in the search box?  If there is I would like to know.  Once I find one I can usually find others but not always.  I appreciate it.  Maybe I need to take WikiTree 101?

Comments

If its English  or Scottish royalty, I find one of the Tudors, they are easy to find use dynamic  tree  and then go  up or down until I   find the one i want its easier than trying to find Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

 

 

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I have an alleged direct link to Queen Victoria [Hanover] and Prince Albert [Saxe-Coburg and Gotha] ancestry from my great grandfather. The DNA is sourced to Lower Saxony, Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate [23andme] I am part of  the Royalty group on FTDNA

Answer 1

WikiTree does have a Category for European royalty that has 50 subcategories, and hopefully that will be helpful for you to figure out what name to refer to a certain member of the royalty. The WikiTree European Nobility Category is viewable here:

WikiTree Category: European Nobility

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:European_Nobility​

You can bookmark this on your computer for easier reference when you need it.

Comments

Category European Nobility it is!  However the link you gave me for Royal Genealogy comes up the surname of Royal.  Anyway that doesn't matter since you led me to what I was looking for!!!  Thank you Cynthia!

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yes I did!...always forgetting my upper case!! sorry!

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OOPS! Well, at least the FIRST link is the good one... suppose I should go erase that other one (edit it out)--and then people will wonder what they're missing. Here's what I'm about to delete, for those purists here who want to see everything:

WikiTree ROYAL Genealogy

https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/ROYAL

Answer 2

Finding European Royalty might be easier than finding royalty from other lands (Persua, Thailand i.e., Siam), Japan, etc).  The Emporer of Mexico would be part of European Royalty.

People named "Royal" are not necessarily European Rayalty.

Comments

Yes, so very true! This sort of research mishap can be conveniently excused by my getting over the flu... Sorry for the confusing link, which has been removed from my answer, and moved down to the comments under my answer for those WikiTree research purists wondering, "What did I miss?!?"  :-)

Answer 3

Hi Scott

With European royalty the general guideline has been to use their dynasty name as the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) eg. Plantagenet, Tudor, Capet, Carolingian, Bourbon etc etc.

The other option is to use the country they ruled, but this should be in their own language not necessarily English.

Almost all major royal monarchs should already have profiles on WikiTree so if you have trouble finding any just post on G2G as you have done.  If you add the tag euroaristo, this will attract the attention of members of the European Aristocrats project.