How many out there think that your Great- Great- Great- Great- Great grandkids will even know who you were and what you did on this earth??? (thats about 100 years)
2006-08-16 10:27:59 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
i dont
2006-08-16 10:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by kncgurl4life 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what a great question. you think like I do. are you an anthropologist or archeologist, by any chance?
I kind of doubt that my 4 times removed grand-kids will know much about me just from oral tradition. That's because I am not really doing much that is phenomenal or famous or thankfully, infamous. Just plugging along being one of the good guys.
Plus the increase of technology has made oral traditions less "happening" anyway. It used to be how history was taught, family, world, whatever.
On the bright side, the advent of great technological advances also means that if my 4 or 6 or 8 times removed greats ever get the urge to learn where they came from and what we were like, there will be much more information still extant for them to "dig" up. Maybe even this answer could come to light some day again!!
(Probably not, if you don't choose it as best, LOL. No pressure, though, that really was a totally random thought.)
2006-08-16 10:37:38 · answer #2 · answered by desperatehw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Or, rather, my family descendants will. I have no children, and don't to have any, but I do have a brother, who does plan to. But I'm an amateur genealogist, I can trace my family reliably back to the 900's in some lines.
And in 1906, my great-great grandfather was a boy living in Clarksville, TN, helping his father and grandfather with the rather successful wagon company they had. His future wife, on the other hand, was helping her family barely scrape a living from a small patch of land for some reason called a farm (it was TINY). How do I know this? I HAVE ALL THE FAMILY PICTURES!
2006-08-17 02:13:54 · answer #3 · answered by graytrees 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I only know back to my great great grandparents, not the great great great great grandparents, and guess what, that's more than about 100 years. You are calculating on each one having children at the age of about 17. That's definitely not the rule anymore. It could easily be twice that and more. Go figure. We're waiting to have babies these days. So to answer your question directly, I doubt seriously that my however many years away descendants will have an inkling as to who I am, plus I doubt they will really care.
2006-08-16 10:39:31 · answer #4 · answered by Goddess T 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hope they will...so far our family keeps track of these things, so I know who my great-great-great-great grandparents were and I think it is very interesting to know something about their lives. I also know some interesting anecdotes on some of them.
My great-great-great mum of my mothers side had two lovers at the time. To solve that problem she made an appointment with both of them at the same place, at the same time. They didn't know that, but she had decided that the guy who came first would be the one. That was my great-great-great granddad, so his way of handling this date made sure that our family is what it is today. And isn't it a surprising story..it sounds so modern !
It also proves for me how important the decisions of our ancestors can be for our present lives !
2006-08-16 10:35:56 · answer #5 · answered by meiguanxi :) 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tracing my husband's family way back. It is hard work considering that the government will not release records for approximately 97 years after the person is born. If you want your family to be able to trace you in a hundred years start now. Talk to your grandparents and find out where and when they were born. If they were born in a different country find out when they arrived in the country they are now. Find out who their parents were and years they were born. Get as much family history from the past that you can while people are still alive. Take it right down to your generation and give the information to the next generation and have them promise to keep it going from one generation to the next. It is quite the journey.
2006-08-16 10:35:10 · answer #6 · answered by older woman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question! 4 greats? That's more than 100 years. Most of my gr-gr-gr-gr-grand parents were born 200 or more years ago. I may not know exactly what they all did, but I know what some of them did. I think with technology today such as cameras and video, databases, etc, future generations will be able to find out alot more about us than we are able to learn about our ancestors.
2006-08-16 18:14:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Jeffery E.,
With the information being stored, it will be easy to research. They may not have any 'fond' memories of you, but you will be a branch on their Genealogy Tree. Too many people are tracking this information for it not to get to them. So, if they care, then they will have everything you leave for them in these trees. Try Family Tree Maker. It stores files, comments, pictures, etc. along with all the other Genealogy facts. Contribute to LDS, or Roots or Genealogy.com or Ancestry.com and you will assure they can find you.
Hey, you could be a smart a s s now, and leave them a message in your family tree. "Hi, I am your 6th generation Grandpa - hope you have as many kids as me", or some more devious message - "Hey, have you mutated through evolution or what?".
Maybe you could leave a treasure map in your suit coat you get burried in, and say so in your Genealogy Tree - first to find it gets to keep it. Put some Yahoo stock certificates in there.
2006-08-16 10:54:42 · answer #8 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just like my great-grandmother did, I am adding on to my extensive family tree (over 154,000 names, and I am adding more and more every day). My great-grandmother, Ruby Timblin Jones, was born on October 28, 1893, so she was 9 years old in 1906. I have her journal which explains her moving experience to Cheyenne, WY, for her mother's health, and then moving back again to Barron, WI. Ruby kept that journal up-to-date until the day she died, on January 18, 1994, at the age of 100. Her mind was clear till the end. After she died, we discovered the journal and inside the front cover she wrote, 'this journal is to be past on to my only grandson (my father) and his generations after.' So my father received the journal and gave it to me. And now I am doing the same. Each day, I sit down and write about the days events in full detail. And believe me this information will be past on to my kids, kids, kids...long after I am gone.
2006-08-16 11:31:22 · answer #9 · answered by fonzfan_2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a person does genealogical research,, you can bet they will know what their 4th, 5th and even 6th great grandparents!
I have been able to prove that EIGHT of my ancestors served in the Revolutionary War!
Also, depending on the person, a 4th great grandparent could be born ca 1750!!
2006-08-16 12:58:14 · answer #10 · answered by phonecardlady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oddly enough I found a cool article on the web last night about my great-great-great-great grandfather and what he was doing in 1906...welcoming a new son: my great (x3) grandfather :).
If you keep the information alive and interesting your family will pass it on. So it's a 50-50 shot that they will know.
2006-08-16 10:33:56 · answer #11 · answered by The Steele's 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋