How far back can you go in your family tree?

[RG]

I know my great great grandfather was born in 1835 and not sure of his first name but it starts with a J.

and on my moms side I can get back to my great great great great grandma who was a chicasaw native american who is rumored to have killed a small group of carpet baggers due to them killing part of her family. her daughter married a white man so when all the math is done I come out about 1/16th native american. I keep trying to find out more info on my great to the 4th power grandma, but limited on what's there.


my great great grandparents ... on my dad's mom's side ... they're someting that happened that casued them to have to leave their home contry ... but I cannot find out what. Sounds like they were pretty high up in society but really was part of a movement that didn't go the way they wanted. so someday I hope to find out more.


my grandma and her parents and rest of her family.


my great grandma on my mom's side and her grand kids including my mom (my mom is the one right to the left of my great grandma)

[saildog]

My Grandmother has done a bunch of research and been in touch with distant relatives to combine research. She has one particular branch of her family traced back to Ireland in the 17th Century.

From that research, I was able to find out that I am distantly related to a friend of mine that I have known for years. He confirmed that finding because his Grandmother had done a bunch of research and we were able to pinpoint a common ancestor in Tennessee. (We are both related to Daniel Boone through one of Boone's descendants....lots of folks are related to ole' Dan'l Boone.)

I traced my Dad's family back to the 1800s in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Dad's Great-grandparents had migrated from Tennessee to Arkansas to Texas and finally to Oklahoma. Along the way, my ancestors include Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee as my European Ancestors inter-married among the tribes. Pretty common migration route and lineage for families in this State.

My Mom's Great-Grandmother's family were ethnic Germans who came to the US from Odessa, Russia. That is very common in Oklahoma as literally hundreds of thousands of people in the State descend from ethnic Germans born in Russia.

[Mikey]

My dad is very much into our family history and has actually created a history family site, if anyone is interested.
Pilewski - Family History of Ancient Prussians

That's neat !!!

I'm, going to look at it closer later tonight

[stevenlore]

My wife can gt back on her father's side to around 1610. Her ancestor was Aaron Cornelius who was Captain of the Canary Bird (I know, its a very fierce name for a ship). He helped in the settling, by the Dutch, of Long Island. She can trace her mother's side to the 1500s. I can trace my maternial grandmother's side to the 1400's in and around Bremen Germany. But I can't go back passed the 1910's on my father's side.

[MIB41]

My dad's side of the family goes back to like third cousin from Thomas Jefferson! But here's the funny thing... My wife's side of the family are direct relatives to Jessie James. I guess opposites do attract.

[johnmiic]

I did this for homework way back in grammar school and always regret not saving the piece of paper. I asked my Mom to help me with it back then. All I know is I kept asking my Mom, "...and who were their parents?...and who were their parents?" and she listed like 4-5 sets of names. I think we could trace it back on her side as far as early 1800's/late 1700's.

My Grandmother was born in America 1899 or so, but her family was from Italy. The name of the town was told to me something like Buon something. She was not allowed to read or write by her father who used to beat her. She never learned. I had 13 Aunts and Uncles but many have passed away and most didn't like my Mother or get along with us in later years. So often when I hear someone has passed on I celebrate it.

My Fathers side we know very little except his parents came to America before 1910. His Father converted to Catholicism to marry my Grandmother but we don't know what he was before he converted. The old spelling of his Father's name has been lost. We don't know it anymore. He may have relatives in Europe but they never kept in touch and we have no connection to them either.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I started looking on Ancestry.com a few years ago but they want you to join to be abel to do any real searching and I just did not want to pay the money. My fathers side of the family I can trace back at least to my great great grandparents as they lived in the same town and passed the house down from generation to generation to the eldest son....still do in fact. My fathers first cousin, who is in his mid eighties has the house now, when he passes it will go to his son and so on

[Adam West]

the weird thing about ancestry.com is that it was a free site at one time....others did all the work and now they want to charge a fee for the information...pathetic

[The Bat]

My Cousin has trace the Shaw's(my great Grand Mother & Father)leaving Dublin, Ireland in 1870.

[Hotfoot]

These are great. I am looking for some family photos to add.

[Gorn Captain]

The farthest I can go in my family tree is about tree to four feet. Then the branch snaps and I fall into my neighbor's yard.

PS: they have a mean dog....

[jwyblejr]

I bet it those pesky squirrels.

[The Bat]

Here's a very old Picture(that's a Wooden Ship in the background) of Grampy Shaw. He's was a tough, drinking, fighting Irishman. He could bend a Railroad Spike with his bare Hands into the shape of a Horse Shoe.

[SainthoodDenied]

My one interest and hobby that's bigger than old toys is history, I done alot of work on tracing mine starting with each of my 4 grandparents.
My last name is the one I worked on the most and I've been able after many years and documents to have traced it back in a straight line to 1086 when Willam the Conquer had the Doomsday book drawn up after he conquered England, It is basically a census he had ordered to be done to know exactly what he ruled over.
The first one of them to come to America was in 1638. He arrived in Virginia and lived in the Isle of Wight and became burgess of the county, He was a cavalier colonel, His son was a major and his granson was a colonel who was named commander in chief of the county.
A later great grandfater moved down into North Carolina, He was a captain in the N.C. militia and was wounded at the battle of Gullifords Courthouse and died several days later in 1781.
Further decesants moved down into Georgia and kept migrating further south into Georgia where we've been ever since, now I'm pretty much in the middle of GA.
There is still a working farm in England bearing my family name close to where the first named decendants were in 1086, the name evolved some wayback before last names were really used and I even found documentation about that, the ones listed in 1086 were thought to be from a line of saxons or normans before arriving in England.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I am a Bitza.