How far back can you trace your ancestry?

[NoReserve]

I have traced my dad's side back to about the Civil War. I think thats like 7 generations roughly. I think I could go back further if I really wanted to look harder.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Germanic peasants on Dad's side, and Briton (i.e. irish/scottish/welsh) peasants on my mothers. No real point to tracing them precisely. Dirt-poor farmers aren't impressive.

I think they'd be proud of where their progeny have ended up though. Middle-class is a nice place to be.

ZV

 

[Landroval]

I have two family strains I can date back to the 1500s. I'd love to follow some of the other paths, but it takes a really long time to go further.

 

[Doggiedog]

My dad's side was samurai. My uncle, who past away, is the oldest male in my family and had pics of my great great great granddad in all his samurai get up. My mom's side is samurai too but I think the family history might have been lost on her end.

 

[moshquerade]

Adam ~ Eve

 

[RelaxTheMind]

My ancestors were a village of head hunters in the philippines. When I was little I used to go to cultural dances with my parents... minus the skulls. First time i was told that i was like COOL!... then they told me it was actually shameful to have a heritage like that. oh well.

 

[aircooled]

several feet on a good day.

 

[Eli]

Farthest back we have is 1794..

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: RelaxTheMind
My ancestors were a village of head hunters in the philippines. When I was little I used to go to cultural dances with my parents... minus the skulls. First time i was told that i was like COOL!... then they told me it was actually shameful to have a heritage like that. oh well.

oh hells, we ALL have ancestral skeletons in our closet

 

[her209]

Back to Ghengis Khan.

 

[flyboy84]

back to the generals of william the conqueror!

 

[Landroval]

Originally posted by: her209
Back to Ghengis Khan.

A few years ago I was reading either Science or Nature (can't recall atm) but there was a blurb about some genetic research that showed Chinggis Khan (or a single relative, obviously they do not have his DNA to confirm) was the direct ancestor of something like 8% of men in Asia alive today :Q

Ah, Here is an abstract I found... I think it was summarizing this study :Q

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
Adam ~ Eve

heheh :beer:

 

[cmdrmoocow]

3xgreatgrandfather (2x?) on father's side deserted the Prussian calvary and ran to the US.

 

[malbojah]

My grandfather has the ancestry thing for our family traced back 7 generations (last I heard)

 

[jai6638]

6 generations on my dads side..... 3 on my moms side..

 

[Excelsior]

I only know my Irish side back to when my great-great-whatever grandfather left Ireland in 1798. I know my German side back to somewhere in the 1700s, they were carpenters.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Well documented to 1066, not so well documented to ~800.

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: RelaxTheMind
My ancestors were a village of head hunters in the philippines. When I was little I used to go to cultural dances with my parents... minus the skulls. First time i was told that i was like COOL!... then they told me it was actually shameful to have a heritage like that. oh well.

oh hells, we ALL have ancestral skeletons in our closet

My family rose from minor to middle nobility by helping to put down Irish rebellions. Then the gunpowder plot was hatched at our house! (That's when we got kicked out and sent to America.)

 

[imported_Mike]

back to the revolutionary war on my mother's side

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Amol
you know what's weird?

if you go WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY back . . .



we're all related! :Q

That's the scariest fvcking thing I've ever read here! :Q

:Q

 

[Mill]

My Aunt traced my mother's side of the family back far enough to where we found out that I'm the great x 100 grandson of Charlemagne.

 

[nageov3t]

I can trace my mom's family back about 4 generations.

on my dad's side, I've traced his father's family back to the 1600's when they came to Quebec from France; I've never been able to make the leap from Canada back to France, though. on his mother's side, we have it traced back to France in the 1700's... my paternal grandmother is actually from France, though, which makes the transatlantic jump a lot easier to make.

 

[mobobuff]

To Massachusetts in the early 1600s.

 

[IGBT]

..early 1700's Cork Ireland..grave markers suggest 1600's..found a record of a ancestor that was banished and sent to Australia on a prison ship by the british..and never returned to Cork..and there's another bunch of us in Fargo ND..and are old country Irish..still trying to figure that one out. But we're all related to the banished guy from Cork..banishment runs in the family.

 

[mhillary]

I can trace it back up to 10 generations.