How far back can you trace your Family line.

[Dalamard]

I have been wondering about my family history for some time and decided to check it out,
and to my great surprise my ancestors had nothing to do all day. because of this I managed
to trace my family tree back 31 generations to Olaf the White born around 830 so I wonder my fellow escapists how far can you trace you family and how is your farthest ancestor.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I can trace my family line all the way back to the beginning of time, Adam and Eve! HA!

/jokes

Well because I'm a lazy bastard, I can only trace my family line back to my great grandparents.

 

[El Poncho]

I have never tried, maybe in the future I will.

 

[Levi93]

i traced my surname back to scandanavian vikings. thats about it but direct relations ive traced back to my great great great grandfather.

 

[Blemontea]

The farthest i know is William the Conqueror so maybe ... a long ass time ago, i dont know how long ago.

 

[adakias]

I can trace my family line all the way back to the beginning of time, Adam and Eve! HA!

/jokes

Well because I'm a lazy bastard, I can only trace my family line back to my great grandparents.

Wow. That's not far back at all! Three of my great grandmothers are still alive, and one of them died only a couple of years ago... but the generations in my family are close so maybe we're just weird...

Anyways.

OT.
My birth father's family has been traced all the way back to our ancestors in Romania, but I don't know how many generations it is (we don't speak much). I think it's like five? Somewhere in there....
As for my mom's side... I really don't know much about it, because no one's cared enough to trace it.
I live just up the road from where my great-great-grandmother is buried, and we think she came over from Ireland (Her name was Mary Railey; that sounds Irish, right?) That's literally all we (may) know.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, according to many different members of my extended family, I had an ancestor on the Mayflower, and before that....My mom's side of the family was in Germany, and I think my dad's was in Scotland. I could be wrong, though.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I haven't done it, but some relatives of mine have.

One side traced back to Grace O'Malley (A 'pirate queen' and apparently on OK terms with Elizabeth I).

The other side traced back to their side being here in Florida since well before it was a state.

It's been a while since I talked to either family member who's doing the lineage trace, so they may have gotten further.

 

[Aidinthel]

An ancestor of mine landed in Massachusetts in the 1660s. I suppose I could go back farther if I looked, but I don't feel like it.

 

[nolongerhere]

Don't know. Don't care. All I know is that my great uncle was a pirate.

 

[JoJo]

Back to about 1800's roughly, or a 4x great grandfather, along the surname line. Before then who knows, mostly just common English people.

 

[smearyllama]

My nagyapa came into the US in 1918 (I think) and started a family in Pittsburgh. He bought a condemned house and renovated it himself, giving my grandpa his childhood home.

 

[Eleuthera]

I've managed to trace back 12 generations, to around 1600. At that around that time my ancestor changed his name from Lancrock (or Lankrok) to what my last name is now. I've been unable to find any trace of him before that, in all probability he moved here (here being the south of the Netherlands) from France or (what would become) Belgium.

 

[smearyllama]

Don't know. Don't care. All I know is that my great uncle was a pirate.

I may be related to Francis Morgan. Ironically, when I took down all the captains in Pirates!
he was one of them.

 

[Oilerfan92]

I don't know specifics. But (apparently) my fathers side was Scottish. And they fled Scotland to France after somebody tried to kill them or something. That's where they "picked up" my present last name.

With specifics. Thheyre oldest facts I know is that my paternal grandfather won the memorial cup and my maternal grandfather was a distinguished Curler who was apparently on the 3rd greatest curling team in Alberta history ( e curling teams a broken up into each province instead of cities. Alberta is one of the, if nit the moat successful provinces on that aspect. Its like being part of one of the best Dallas Cowboy teams).

 

[elementsoul]

My grandma traced my family back to English royalty which can then be traced back to however far the royal records go.

 

[Hollock]

my fathers side, I know my grandmas parents come from Ireland. My Grandpas parents come from England a long long time ago. My moms side both grandparents are from canada. That's about it.

 

[TheColdHeart]

My mum's currently working on doing ours from things she's found in grandparents' lofts and stuff as well as an ancestry website. She's got back pretty far, not sure exactly how many generations but so far nothing overly interesting at all has really come from it.

Oh besides I'm related (probably very distantly and through lots of twists and turns) to David Livingstone...and David Tennant.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

First up, I'm a Pennsylvania Dutch girl to the core. I can't directly trace my line back, but my family says that we've been in our area since before America was a country, and that way back in the day, my ancestors used to help on the Underground Railroad. I'm pretty proud of my family heritage.

 

[NeutralDrow]

A pair of people (Carrolls) coming to the US from Ireland around 1860. I think it's about six or seven generations back.