For decades and centuries, Christmas is the most celebrated in the world and the popularity is still growing. The birth of Jesus Christ and the relief from suffering of humanity are simple events that are stated in the Bible and yet they are confused with plenty of distortion of history by events, unrecorded parts of history, myths and illusions.
The Yuletide folklore, the resources of writings and records from early Jewish, Greek, Roman and Pagan create more discord about the true happenings of the early Christianity. But it is easy to co-relate the facts and chain of events and come out with the reality.
Though the entire truth of the beginning of Christmas is not known, it is easy now to fit the scattered pieces and predict how the world started celebrating the Saviour Jesus and the early celebrations of Xmas.
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The missing years of Jesus are the subject of the Himis manuscript which deals with the young Jesus'time in India. Scholars are sceptical, but I do not think that the evidence is firm enough to draw a conclusion. In the text Jesus is known as Issa, the Muslim version of his name, but whoever wrote the manuscript does not seem to have been a Christian, so the scholarly attribution of the manuscript to Nestorian Christian sources is to my mind erroneous. Keep an open mind on this one.
Christianity traditionally associates Jesus Christ with Bethlehem, Egypt, Jerusalem and Nazareth.
Have you heard of the "lost years" when Jesus Christ perhaps traveled to and from ancient India?
The problem with the Holy Land is that it is where the routes from Europe,Asian and Africa meet. The Mediterranean touches on it, as does the Red Sea route to India. It seems to be at the cockpit of history.
Joseph was from the family of David, whose ancestral lands were round Bethlehem, which is where I think that he lived. He would have been in Nazareth as there was much work in Herod's building projects in the region, but he was most likely to want to return with his wife to his home town of Bethlehem, which is why he went there for the census. Note that in Matthew 2 the Bible says that Joseph only settled in Nazareth when he discovered that Archelaus had succeeded Herod, as Archelaus was a savage. Archelaus was only the ruler of Judea and Samaria, while Nazareth was in Galilee and subject to the less violent Antipas, Archelaus' brother.
Mary's lineage is unclear, but Luke's gospel says that she had a cousin, Elizabeth, from the family of Aaron, the priestly family, who came from the tribe of Levi, rather than from the tribe of Judah, from whom David's family came. Of course, she might have had Davidic connections, but descent was only reckoned through the male, so Jesus could have had no Davidic claims to to the throne through Mary.