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How far back has your family tree been traced?
« on: March 27, 2016, 07:39:38 AM »
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How far back has your family tree been traced?


Mine goes back to the mid-1700s. It cannot go any further as the church were all the records were kept at the time was burnt down, so the story goes, by Russian troops.

This is in GD forum. Since a few of us have been talking about family trees I thought I'd bring this over.

I've got one side of the family back to the early 800 ADs following one branch. The other side back into the 1500s.

Most of the lines dispersal in the 1700s due to emigration into the USA. Especially all the Irish lines.

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26. I learned when doing my genealogy that not all of my English/Scottish were indigenous peoples. There are Vikings in my line. That was a huge, huge surprise to me.

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3. I can go back as the year 800 for one branch. Im a distant relative of somebody famous, and the research was already done for me.

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12. The Crusades.

One of my ancestors was an English king of Jerusalem - not a position with a lot of job security.
My English ancestors came to America in the 1600s, German and Swedish in the 1800s. My African ancestor was enslaved by the French and freed by the Swedish in the 1700s.

47% Scandinavian
28% Irish
10% English
15% Western European



^first known image of dutch*987 visiting England.

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2016, 08:21:38 AM »
<<<like Judy grasswire--I'm surprised she didn't brag about it in this thread--has traced family way clear back to central modern-day Iraq, Adam and Eve.

Of course, it's all a little murky, but it comes sharply into focus some time later with great-too-many-times-to-count-granddad Abraham and his wife Sarah.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2016, 08:24:47 AM »
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26. I learned when doing my genealogy that not all of my English/Scottish were indigenous peoples. There are Vikings in my line. That was a huge, huge surprise to me.

 :thatsright: Not very aware of British history? :thatsright: Maybe doesn't know, either, that the "Norman" of Normandy refers to the Norsemen, aka Vikings?

When it comes to England, does "indigenous peoples" mean much? How many peoples conquered/settled in England in the first 12 centuries or so AD? The Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, various Nordic peoples, and the Normans come to mind.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2016, 08:34:29 AM »
Dutch,  noted your heinz 57 muttness in percentages.

Proud to say that I am of 100% Northern German heritage. And the family tree roots back to the early 1700. Beyond that it becomes hard due to the lack of surnames in the German principalities and the wiping of the slate, per se, by the 8th Air Force in WWII in some towns coupled with the lack of male survivors of the war.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2016, 08:37:11 AM »
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2016, 08:46:06 AM »
My wife's great grampa ended up over here by way of operation paperclip. Interesting reading of what happened to the nazi rocket scientists following ww2
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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2016, 08:49:25 AM »
The 17th Century Thirty Years War was probably pretty destructive of records used in genealogical searches.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2016, 12:17:25 PM »
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26. I learned when doing my genealogy that not all of my English/Scottish were indigenous peoples. There are Vikings in my line. That was a huge, huge surprise to me.

A swell time to recycle this one:

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2016, 12:44:36 PM »
I did the DNA thing.  Other than that, I trace back to my grandparents.  Before that I just don't care.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2016, 12:58:14 PM »
Growing up, I was always told we were German. I even wore Lederhosen and danced in a German dance group. When I started using Ancestry.com, I got my blood tested and discovered that I wasn't German at all, but rather mostly Irish. Now I'm happy in my kilt... 
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2016, 01:11:21 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on March 27, 2016, 12:44:36 PM
I did the DNA thing.  Other than that, I trace back to my grandparents.  Before that I just don't care.

I am sorta the same mind (IJDC), the old saying that you are just 2-3 generations from being forgotten I think is fairly accurate and that is ok. This is Easter, most of us probable have a good idea who does the remembering worth remembering.

Family tree wise, not too far past the late 1850s on last name, Mid 1700s on mom's side. Wrote down on some papers placed in a family picture chest. Couple of pictures of some great ever-so-great grandparents on the hall wall (The Cherokee Indian lady was not much to look at and her husband was a small framed fellow).
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2016, 08:12:13 PM »
My family tree goes back to Atlantis. All the records were destroyed when the aliens came and wiped the island out.


That ought to wire the dummies up.   :rotf:
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2016, 08:31:55 PM »
Im considering the DNA thing.  Were you guys satisfied with the results, as in, seems legit? 

My mom's side is solid Swedish settling in upstate New York mid 1800's on my grandfather's side, with a mix on English and "swarthy" Hungarian settling in Pennsylvania on my grandmother's side.  Catholic and Christian.  My dad is first generation Jewish American with his dad from Galicia/ Austrian-Hungarian pushed out of Eastern Europe late 1800's, settled in New York city and, his mom was Russian Jewish, also settling in New York late 1800's.  Interesting mix.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2016, 10:27:44 PM »
Quote from: IndiCon15 on March 27, 2016, 08:31:55 PM
Im considering the DNA thing.  Were you guys satisfied with the results, as in, seems legit? 

Our family has kept track of our tree going back many years and back many centuries, long before DNA tracing was available.  The DNA tests agree with the tree that has been kept up. 
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2016, 10:35:33 PM »
Quote from: I_B_Perky on March 27, 2016, 08:12:13 PM
My family tree goes back to Atlantis. All the records were destroyed when the aliens came and wiped the island out.


That ought to wire the dummies up.   :rotf:

A pic of your grandma survived:

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2016, 10:39:24 PM »
Quote from: IndiCon15 on March 27, 2016, 08:31:55 PM
Im considering the DNA thing.  Were you guys satisfied with the results, as in, seems legit? 

My mom's side is solid Swedish settling in upstate New York mid 1800's on my grandfather's side, with a mix on English and "swarthy" Hungarian settling in Pennsylvania on my grandmother's side.  Catholic and Christian.  My dad is first generation Jewish American with his dad from Galicia/ Austrian-Hungarian pushed out of Eastern Europe late 1800's, settled in New York city and, his mom was Russian Jewish, also settling in New York late 1800's.  Interesting mix.

Well, all those assumptions are up for grabs.  My DNA said I was from one part of Europe where we we were sure it as another.  But Europe was the overall source of 95+% so that fit the sanity test.  And the one part made sense given my maternal heritage.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2016, 10:00:36 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on March 27, 2016, 10:39:24 PM
Well, all those assumptions are up for grabs.  My DNA said I was from one part of Europe where we we were sure it as another.  But Europe was the overall source of 95+% so that fit the sanity test.  And the one part made sense given my maternal heritage.

Just as long as I don't find out that I'm part reptillian :o :o
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2016, 10:37:54 AM »
Quote from: Mugsaway on March 27, 2016, 12:58:14 PM
Growing up, I was always told we were German. I even wore Lederhosen and danced in a German dance group. When I started using Ancestry.com, I got my blood tested and discovered that I wasn't German at all, but rather mostly Irish. Now I'm happy in my kilt... 
They should use your story for a commercial.



As far as my ancestry goes, the furthest I have been able to trace back was to Holland in the 1600's.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2016, 11:35:36 AM »
Quote from: IndiCon15 on March 28, 2016, 10:00:36 AM
Just as long as I don't find out that I'm part reptillian :o :o

I always thought I was a Rough Collie, but my DNA test came back as a Glasgow Leg Hound.  Go figure!

I probably shouldn't have tried to hump the lab tech, but she was a cute redhead.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2016, 12:08:26 PM »
Quote from: Mugsaway on March 27, 2016, 12:58:14 PM

>snip<

.......that I wasn't German at all, but rather mostly Irish. Now I'm happy in my kilt...
The Irish wore dresses, too?

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2016, 03:03:30 PM »
Quote from: Skul on March 28, 2016, 12:08:26 PM
The Irish wore dresses, too?

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20. absolute bullshit. the cave is unspeakably vile.

I don't know how any of you can live with yourselves.

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« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2016, 08:37:55 AM »
Quote from: Big Dog on March 28, 2016, 11:35:36 AM
I always thought I was a Rough Collie, but my DNA test came back as a Glasgow Leg Hound.  Go figure!

I probably shouldn't have tried to hump the lab tech, but she was a cute redhead.

I think I knew a Scottish girl who was nicknamed the "Glasgow leg hound."  Or at least I wish I knew her.   :rimshot:
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2016, 10:34:42 AM »
1635 Londonderry Ireland. "Hawthorn", Scots Presbyterians who emigrated from home in about 1605. Emigrated to the states about 1768.
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« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2016, 11:11:37 AM »
Quote from: IndiCon15 on March 29, 2016, 08:37:55 AM
I think I knew a Scottish girl who was nicknamed the "Glasgow leg hound."  Or at least I wish I knew her.   :rimshot:

I dated her sister!
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2016, 06:35:46 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on March 27, 2016, 10:35:33 PM
A pic of your grandma survived:



I wondered where the red hair came from.  Everyone else in the family is brunette.  :rotf:
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