What is Julio-Claudian family tree?
{{no sources|date=October 2023}} [[File:Great Cameo of France CdM Paris Bab264 white background.jpg|thumb|The [[Great Cameo of France]], made {{circa}} 23 AD, pictures several members of the Julio-Claudian families.]] At first, the '''Julia family''' and the '''Claudia family''' were separate families living in the [[Roman Empire]]. However, around the first half of the [[1st century AD]], they merged into one huge family tree as a result of marriages and adoptions between those family members. The [[Julio-Claudian dynasty]] was the first dynasty of the Roman emperors. All emperors and their families from that dynasty were descendants of the [[Julii Caesares]] family and probably even from the [[Claudii]] family. Marriages between the possible descendants of [[Sextus Julius Caesar]] and [[Claudii]] have occured around the end of the BC era, but the merged Julio-Claudian family tree resulted mostly from adoption and marriages between around the second half of the [[1st century BC]] and the first half of the [[1st century AD]]. Note that the names and identities of family members from the [[Julli Caesares]] before Julius Caesar's grandfather's birth is partially guessed by modern-day scholars. [[Category:Families]] [[Category:Roman people]]