trace their ancestry back more than 5 generations on both sides of the family to a common national heritage ....?
2007-09-11 22:40:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Lebanon
Ghanouge...you just can't help yourself can you ?
2007-09-12 00:07:13 · update #1
Yes. My family is documented as being in Lebanon for the last 900 years.
2007-09-12 01:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by Tula 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can go back 3 generations only on both sides
2007-09-12 08:59:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have ancestry books going back to the 1800 but this is on my dads side.. and unfortunately my mom does not even know anything about her roots my grandmaws side is descendant from france and my grandpaws side from english royalty its nice when you have the books to read about what your family did in like 1870 :)
2007-09-12 09:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by Halawa 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a family tree, so yes I can. Six generations Paternal side, from Palestine.
I can go back 4 generations on my maternal side.
2007-09-12 18:26:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I can trace my family back at least to the 1400's in Israel and after that things get hazy and I can't tell. My family are Jerusalemite Jews.
2007-09-12 17:41:31 · answer #5 · answered by Uzi Commando 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i can
from my 4 grandparents
1 can be traced back to Germany
another to Ireland
another to Scotland
and the other is Native American, Cherokee Indian.
2007-09-12 09:31:49 · answer #6 · answered by Hayz's Peach - أماندا & حسن 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i wouldnt b able to trace mine further than my grandparents, lol
since all my grandparenta are dead, and my parents dont know alot about their grandparents, my sister tried doing our family tree, but didnt get far!
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, I FEEL LIKE A GOOF TO ANSWER THE QUESTION COS IM NOT LEBANESE, LOL
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2007-09-12 06:08:09 · answer #7 · answered by ROCKMUM LOVES BOWIE 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mom says I was left on the doorstep by Gypsies, so I don't know where I'm from. Maybe I'm related to the Gabor sisters. NO PICTURES! "New York is where I'd rather stay, I get allergic smelling hay, I just adore a penthouse view, I love my darling, forgive me Park Avenue..."
2007-09-12 19:15:17 · answer #8 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I could do that with my European side apparently there are records goign back to the middle ages. and for my moorocan side it gets shady going back to my great grandparents so ya....
2007-09-12 18:51:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know how many generations it goes back, but i'll tell u what my family always tells me..
Dad's side... they immigrated from Spain in time of war... i think 19th century.. some went to UK... some travelled and lived in Morrocco... some travelled to america...
Those who travelled to Morrocco, they travelled across the coast of Africa and ended up here in Lebanon... my father grew up at the coast.. which means if they continued travelling, we'd be somewhere in Turkey or maybe even France.. on our way back to Spain...
Mom's side: Her grandmother is a black woman.. she said she have a pic of her when she was old... and she was really black... her husband.. - my mom's grandfather was Egyptian from Mansurah... blond with blue eyes :s ... How could that be!! well,... my mom's theory is that french men could have travelled by sea to escape being forced to join the french army.. and they ended up in this place called Mansurah and started their lives... but i looked up the history that relates mansurah to France and i found that in the time of Louis IX , battle of mansurah happened ... as the site says: "The Battle of Al Mansurah was fought on February 8, 1250 between the French Crusaders led by Louis IX and an Ayyubid army led Emir Fakr-ed-din." which means some french men must have liked some girls from there and married them :)
Also my mom's maternal great grandfather was from an island called Arados by the greek... Arwad by Phoenicians... Ruad Island... it's located near syria... yet nowadays it's just a fishing town..
It was mentioned twice in The Holy Bible, The Prophet Ezekiel on the Phoenician City of Tyre, ch. 27:
"The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots"
"The men of Arvad with thine army, were upon thy walls round about, and valorous men were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty."
In years to come, my great grandkids will be telling these stories... and adding Canada as their home too.... which reminds me of something...
Wouldn't what i wrote be great as a subject for a book!!
2007-09-12 18:08:09 · answer #10 · answered by ♫ Chloe ♫ 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋