my late grandad managed to trace ours to a guy born in/around 1600.
how about you?
2007-01-28 23:22:40 · 23 answers · asked by misspimousse 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
apes.
It's only been traced back to the 19th century, though.
2007-01-28 23:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On my father's side only to about 1850, on my mother's side back to about 1750. It's amazing that we lose track of something so important to people while they are alive. Just this fact teaches you something about the impermanence of life and the fragility of memory.
On the other hand, you have to remember that every time you go back one generation you duplicate your ancestors, so although you might trace your mother's line back to 1750, by only following one line you are actually losing track of 3 others with every generation. If you trace your line back to a woman who was born in 1750, you may think of her as "your ancestor" but there were also 512 or 1024 (for example, if 9 or 10 generations back) other people alive at that time who were equally closely related to you, and who might have been even more interesting then the one you traced... This means that if you did manage to trace your ancestry back to Roman times you would be more or less related to everyone who was alive at the time. It also means that most of us are probably related to each other, and to all the old royal families of europe, etc etc etc
Mind boggling, but true...
2007-01-28 23:54:11 · answer #2 · answered by Alyosha 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the scientists are right we may all be quite closely related if we go back a few aeons!
There is a lot out there on the web about the idea we may all be descended from an "African Eve" I have put a couple of examples below,
http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/665
One African "Eve" for All World's People
http://www.heretical.com/science/rafonda1.html
African Eve, Eurasian Adam - The Age and Origin of the Human
Species
Perhaps we should stop thinking in terms of Genealogy and instead think of Anthropology!
Read or better still watch Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent of Man"
Close your eyes and imagine the different people whose DNA you share, from Cave men, nomads, warrior tribes to the first cultivators, the first civilsations.........we all have quite a pedigree!
2007-02-01 01:36:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our ancestry goes all the way back! But I have traced one line back to the 1600's.
2007-01-28 23:45:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One side of my family has been traced back to 1536. The family were landowners and had their own manor house and Coat of Arms, which is still displayed is the local church.
So far we have managed to trace the other family lines to the early 19th century.
2007-01-28 23:42:29 · answer #5 · answered by Alison of the Shire 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only possible answer to this question is obvious if you think about it. Our ancestry continues to go back to the first man and woman who did not have parents. Of course that would be ADAM AND EVE. GOD created Adam from the dust and he created Eve from Adam's rib.
Don"t discredit this until you give intelligent thought. Everyone ever born dates back to the offspring of Adam and Eve.
2015-04-29 02:37:56 · answer #6 · answered by des 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To answer the first part, all the way back to the beginning; doesn't yours?
Recorded ancestry however is back to 1837, after which the Parish records get a bit hazy due to several people with the same names.
2007-01-28 23:32:15 · answer #7 · answered by stephen t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been able to trace back to the year 1000 ad, to the Vikings who settled in Ireland, Cork to be precise, are family names have changed quite a bit in the last thousand years, it started off as Cuimin, and there is a church in Ireland named after st Cuimin, the rest is history, and names such as cummins, cummings, kimmins, kimmance, kummings, and lot of others come from the same name of Cuimin.
2007-01-28 23:46:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a mystery, No knowledge can trace that. for example what number of generation of Adam came to Asia or Africa???
If you want to trace your ancestry you will not know from which point do you have to start: Language --- when do you start to know Alphabet " A", or when Human beings start to stand not crawling ,,, even DNA can not trace this mystery
2007-01-28 23:43:47 · answer #9 · answered by charles kumar 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One branch of my family has been traced back to the early 1700's, to a farmer in Luxembourg. With another branch of my family, we found that they originated in Switzerland in the mid 13th century.
2007-01-29 04:09:46 · answer #10 · answered by some_guy_times_50 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in India, we (like most Hindus) have to remember ten generations (male) and name them at the time of marriage. My father remembers his last ten ancestors' names by heart.
Otherwise, our priests have records that can be traced back to several centuries.
2007-01-28 23:37:41 · answer #11 · answered by Winter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋