Want to know how far back anyone has been able to go back in history!
2006-09-22 10:56:13 · 12 answers · asked by Natasha 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I have two lines that go to Charlemagne, b. 724. If you get to him you can get to Adam. Both require taking the data with a grain of salt. The people who do DNA Testing for genealogy tell us that 2% - 5% of all the tests they do turn up an unknown adoption or evidence of infidelity. So, if fooling around in a family was just 2%, by 50 generations (1500 years) you'd have an entirely false tree.
Most of us take anything before 1700 or so to be amusing but not gospel.
2006-09-23 02:38:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well,I've got ancestors coming over from Stuttgart Germany in the late 1800's, and the Cherokee,who have always been here.Then the Welsh/Irish part.I was able to trace those 2 back to 1600's Wales, and 1700's Roscommon Ireland.
2006-09-22 11:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks to good record keeping on my father's side of the family, I can tell you that my great grandfather rode the Chisolm Trail. We also are all descendants of a family of founding fathers. John Rutledge, who signed the Constitution, and his son, Edward Rutledge, who signed the Declaration of Independence.
The family can be traced all the way back to 14th century Ireland. Back then, families took their last name from the village where they originated.
So, I'm about as American as you can get without actually being a native American...then again, I am 1/18 Cherokee Indian too, so I'm that as well!
2006-09-22 11:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by Joe & Amy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've gone back to about 1700 on my dad's mother's side of the family, in an area that was once Hungary, is now Slovakia. The Mormons have microfilmed city and church records from all over the world. I'm not Mormon, but they let anyone use them to work on their family tree. So I worked my way through the records in the parish roster of her church back in the home land. It was very cool. The handwriting was tough as you went farther back, though, and people were less educated and had lousy quill pens available!
I also had the wonderful adventure of visiting Slovakia in 2002 and getting to see the actual old roster of my dad's dad's childhood parish! On that side, I'm "only" back to about 1830.
2006-09-22 11:02:00 · answer #4 · answered by catintrepid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The furtherest back is a knight who fought with King Richard the Lionhearted in the Crusades. And I didn't trace him back personally; he's a Stedman/Steadman and that line has been researched very thoroughly.
2006-09-22 10:59:13 · answer #5 · answered by meridocbrandybuck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the revolutionary war back into England. No further than that.
My hubby traced his back to a Cardinal in Italy.
2006-09-22 10:58:19 · answer #6 · answered by Mama R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife's family has traced their lineage back to Charlemagne, although I'm not sure how accurate their research was.
2006-09-22 10:58:04 · answer #7 · answered by Danzarth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Norway, back to the 1600's and can even go back further then that. It is so interesting.
2006-09-22 10:59:16 · answer #8 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To Adam and Eve seriously! My uncle did it for me.
2006-09-22 10:59:31 · answer #9 · answered by amoney1234567890 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orangutans, my Dad's Dad
2006-09-22 10:59:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋