Family Ancestry

[Frodo]

And feel free to elaborate if you have more than one family tree.  For my part, the furthest back I can trace my family (on my paternal grandfather's side) was to around 1670. 

[Kaine for Senate '18]

We've traced my dad's family in Germany to the 1600's.

[Rin-chan]

I know some random people from my mom's side of the family came here a few years after the Mayflower.  Before that, we have no idea.

Rin-chan

[exopolitician]

My dads side we traced back all the way to Scandinavia and Southern England.

My moms side from Southern Italy and they came to America in 1900.

[dead0man]

One of my cousin's did my mom's dad's ancestory once back to England and the family there had done one pretty far back.  I just casually looked for the hardcopy of the family tree, but I cna't find it.  It went pretty far back.

We don't know dick about dad's side other than that there German.  I suspect some American Bund members or something

[Хahar 🤔]

Nothing beyond great-grandparents. However, I have hundreds of second cousins.

[Hash]

1600s. My mom's family came from Saint-Malo in the time of New France. My dad's side stayed... in Saint-Malo!

Both families are from the same city

[bullmoose88]

My Maternal Grandmother's side goes back to the Mayflower (William Brewster I think?)


Who knows for the rest.

[Colin]

1253 though there are several gaps in the record. 1253 is the first instance of the name Wixted and the person from whom all Wixteds are descended, a man named Hugh Wixted who lived in Nantwich, Cheshire. While there were plenty of Wicksteads and Wicksteds, Hugh was the only person to spell the name Wixted. There is a rather large gap in the record between 1378 and 1510 though followed by one in the mid 18th century. I gotta thank the Mormons for all their free genealogical records.

[Hatman 🍁]

There's a missing link between me and the first Washburns to come to Canada to avoid the American Revolution, but before that, the very first Washburn lived in around 1066.

[Smash255]

Generally late 1800's on both sides of my family back to Italy, Ireland and germany.

[Verily]

On the longest line where someone in my family has traced it, to someone born in 1049 in Normandy (who subsequently relocated to England). However, with relations to various famous figures who had themselves traced their lineages (Salmond Portland Chase, George Washington's mother's family), probably considerably further, although such ancestries were often little more than fantasy.

[phk]

Going from a straight male line of descent I can go from Me to Hashim (Muhammad's grandfather) and from him there is a family tree that goes to the patriarch Abraham.

[WalterMitty]

on my mom's side of the family it can be traced back quite easily.  it goes back in the us to the late 1700s.

my father's side is more difficult.  sharecroppers and peckerwoods 'recorded' births in family bibles.

[12th Doctor]

We can trace both my Irish and German ancestors back to the 15th century without applying too much conjecture.  Beyond that....

[??????????]

My family came to Southern Austria (now northern Italy) from what is now the Czech region somewhere in the late 1170's. Before then there are no records that we've found.

[DWPerry]

On my maternal grandmother's side, I found a genealogy that goes back to 1523 England, with the earliest "Americans" in the Jamestowne Colony.

[J. J.]

As for my European ancestry, one brand of my grandmother's family, the Frick family, has an unbroken line back to 1113; they didn't immigrate until 1767, however.  The came from what is now Switzerland, but were listed as "Celtic-Burgundian."

http://www.amazon.com/Henry-Clay-Frick-George-Harvey/dp/1406767077

The oldest European ancestor in America was Hendrick Sellen, who entered the Pennsylvania Colony in December 1685.  He was born in Krefeld, now Germany, in 1666.  His father was born either there or Rochelle, France in 1640.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/a/Jill-E-Franklin/GENE3-0001.html

Ironically, I moved about five miles from where both men lived, before I knew they lived there.

[opebo]

I'm very skeptical about geneology.  My elderly relatives who either did such research or paid for such research were dubious characters who certainly didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about any other subject. 

So I put 1800-1900.

[J. J.]

I'm very skeptical about geneology.  My elderly relatives who either did such research or paid for such research were dubious characters who certainly didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about any other subject. 

So I put 1800-1900.

Good Lord, Oscar, you can probably get Census records back that far.

[opebo]

I'm very skeptical about geneology.  My elderly relatives who either did such research or paid for such research were dubious characters who certainly didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about any other subject. 

So I put 1800-1900.

Good Lord, Oscar, you can probably get Census records back that far.

Yeah that's why I chose that time period - reliable.  I think before 1800 commoners were just recorded as 'Lord Blenchley had 853 serfs upon his estate', rather than as individuals by name.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm very skeptical about geneology.  My elderly relatives who either did such research or paid for such research were dubious characters who certainly didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about any other subject. 

So I put 1800-1900.

Good Lord, Oscar, you can probably get Census records back that far.

Yeah that's why I chose that time period - reliable.  I think before 1800 commoners were just recorded as 'Lord Blenchley had 853 serfs upon his estate', rather than as individuals by name.

Noo... there were parish records and so on. Over here at any rate.

[HappyWarrior]

We've traced my family to the 1500s, maybe a little earlier. One of the most interesting is my Great-Great-Grandfather who lived in St. Louis.  He stole from the mob because he was a bookie for them and then a black car took him from where he worked.  We think he's at the bottom of the Mississippi with cement shoes on.

[J. J.]

I'm very skeptical about geneology.  My elderly relatives who either did such research or paid for such research were dubious characters who certainly didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground about any other subject. 

So I put 1800-1900.

Good Lord, Oscar, you can probably get Census records back that far.

Yeah that's why I chose that time period - reliable.  I think before 1800 commoners were just recorded as 'Lord Blenchley had 853 serfs upon his estate', rather than as individuals by name.

Noo... there were parish records and so on. Over here at any rate.

Actually, children are listed, by name, from the 1850 Census onward in the US.  I can actually see who my great, great, great grandfather's next door neighbor was.  You can get head of household information back to 1790 in the US.

For the earlier stuff, they still have passenger manifests.  There is actually a record of when Fricks got off the boat.  The deeds are still extant for the Sellen's original land purchase and his name is carved into a wall that he helped build at the Upper Mennonite Burial Ground, Germantown. 

[The day that my father died, after touching his corpse, I went to the wall and touched it.  I wanted to complete the cycle.  ]

[J. J.]

We've traced my family to the 1500s, maybe a little earlier. One of the most interesting is my Great-Great-Grandfather who lived in St. Louis.  He stole from the mob because he was a bookie for them and then a black car took him from where he worked.  We think he's at the bottom of the Mississippi with cement shoes on.

The "official" story of my great uncle's death (same line)  is that he jumped out a window and shot himself while running across a yard after the woman's husband walked in on them.  His parents never made an issue of it.