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> Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times.

China did not have a dark age and so descent from antiquity is relatively common there. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Confucius_in_th... , 80 generations of the family of Confucius have been recorded.

What would qualify this as "proven" to you?

It's not proven at all. He takes speculative jumps to close gaps:

> My conclusion is that his younger sister, Queen Nana (AD 295–337), married King Mirian III of Caucasian Iberia (AD 290–362).

In a footnote he admits that the ancestry of the wife of Mirian III is unknown.

Yes, I noticed that, but that is a different kind of problem.

There's no such thing as a proven genealogy extending back so far. Such a proof cannot exist.

But as far as reasonably-well-documented claims go, going back to Saxon times is not even impressive on a worldwide basis.