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  No one who claims to be their own person should travel through life on the back of their ancestors. Whether your parents were royalty or working class it doesn’t matter. Whether they were good or bad people, or if you even knew them matters even less. What matters is that you are a person of character and values.
  
  Not everyone knows about their family history– where were our ancestors living a hundred, two hundred or even a six years ago. Some people are lucky enough to have detailed family histories going back dozens of generations.
  
  The chance of knowing some of your ancestors improves if one or more were famous (or infamous) for something. While this is a positive, all too often the “famous” relative card gets pulled as a way of boosting our own self esteem.
  
  I have been guilty of this kind of behaviour on many times during my life. In the end it never gets you the esteem in another’s mind. Few things are more boring than a person who has to talk about their famous relatives all the time.
  
  In addition, history is often at best an inexact account and at worst a complete fabrication of the truth. Many famous and infamous people have been caught glossing over unsavory family secrets and adding a few new ones along the way.
  
  For most of us, our family history is sketchy. Pieces picked up from helpful relatives and web searches. My research and understanding is not that much better.
  
  I am lucky to have some relatives who have taken the time to research my most recent ancestors. I am also lucky that there are some general historical records that let me trace back some way.
  
  Why bother with family history if it is not important?
  
  When I first wrote the UCADIA model and architectures, I had no real interest in going on and on about family history. Nor did I appreciate its antiquity.
  
  Just as I said at the start of this section, I firmly believe who you family is or was is far less important than you character and values.
  
  The problem however is context and importance.
 
  As individuals we place great importance on bloodlines of certain families because of their history of certain skills- families of great sports people, families of political leaders, families of educators or inventors, or monarchs.
  
  Secondly, it is a natural human trait to want to understand the context of new ideas and knowledge especially in terms of family history. For example, it is easier to believe a statement about science by the son of a famous inventor, than it is a complete stranger to the field with absolutely no history nor qualifications.
  
  It means that in spite of everything I have said, the value of the UCADIA model and architectures are naturally going to be less in the minds of some people, because they want and need some kind of context as to who is Frank O’Collins? And where does he come from?  
  Therefore, to ignore my family history, to say nothing is to potentially invite others to invent things, to discount the ideas and lessen their value. As a result, I have decided to give you all the facts I know.
  
  The most important bloodlines of history
  
  As I mentioned earlier, accepted history is often more about the tenure and wide acceptance of a lie than it is about accuracy of past events.
  
  This is especially so when considering the history of important bloodlines.
  
  The most important historic bloodlines of humanity are its oldest lines of prophets and monarchs. Of these, some of the most famous and important are/were the Pharaohs of Egypt, the Kings of Israel, the bloodlines of the High Priests and the first monarchs.
  
  Unfortunately, the facts conspire to make an understanding of any clues concerning these bloodlines: (1) long bloodlines need relatively safety and stability usually only found in a degree of isolation. In contrast many of the most famous bloodlines of history were constantly at war resulting in their apparent loss (2) ambitious individuals and families of history have often re-written history for their own purposes, claiming ancestry to that which they do not.
 
  No matter how much one speaks about the importance of personal integrity, the very nature of royalty and spiritual dynasties is based upon the succession of blood from generation to generation.  
  Whether these people are pretenders or legitimate, the significant thing is that these royal families and spiritual families still command enormous influence over the fate of the planet.  
  Therefore, it is impossible to simply ignore the importance placed on ancient bloodlines.  
  For example, the recent book and story "The Da Vinci Code" made the fantastic claim that the bloodlines of Jesus and Mary Magdalene still survive on planet Earth, through the suspect line of French monarchs.  
  The O'Collins and the ancient bloodlines of Ireland  
  All the challenges of history especially apply to the most ancient bloodlines of Ireland. Ireland over centuries has been stripped of its written language and most ancient texts, its ancient monuments, its culture and rightful heritage. In its place has been put wildly speculative stories, confusion and deliberate malice towards the Irish themselves.
  
  The ancestors of the same people who sought to wipe out the history of Ireland are the same people who often claim that most Irish history is pure lies. However, these same influential groups are the first to consider ancient relics such as the Stone of Destiny, stolen from ancient Tara in Ireland as legitimate and why monarchs of England, including Elizabeth II were crowned under it.
  
  With these constraints in mind, I will now provide you a history of the O’Collins of Ireland.
  
   

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