This is my first attempt at trying to trace my family tree (just using the Ancestry website so far) and I'm puzzled as to why my family lines (of which there are many) going back to the 14th,15th and sometimes the 16th centuries are all of noble stock being a Sir, Baron, Lord, Lady, Duchess, etc. I realise this doesn’t mean anything now and that their ancestors would run into the many thousands after all this time but all of them? Really? What about the many and the good non-nobility people of that time? I find it difficult to believe that every family line would be rooted in nobility. What am I doing wrong or is the system? Can anybody throw a light please?
Thanks.