How far back have you been able to go?

[clessie]

The earliest year i've ever researched was The 1300's.Im a volunteer Genealogist who lives in virginia.If you would like more info, please read my post below.You are welcome to email me anytime.Hope you have a blessed day**

"God is my love, and love is God"

 

[clessie]

Email (iceya@mail.com) for family research.No cost to CF members is needed.

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[TurtleChele]

Hiya Clessie. I'll have to email you sometime and see what we can do. I'm really interested in this. Thanks for replying.

~Chele

 

[plum]

how far back? hmmm. dad's side was traced back to 1066! My ancestor Jean Jacques was one of those soldiers invading England woohoo!

sadly, on my mom's side we can't seem to trace back any farther than the early 20th century when my great-great grandparents came over from Italy and Lebanon by way of Ellis Island. We did find one of the boats that two of them came in on though...

 

[BlandOatmeal]

Beware of old American Colonial lines. I have many of these, and unscrupulous genealogists in the past have made their livings by "finding" bogus connections to ancient nobility. I even had one line that traced back to the god Zeus! On close inspection, I have yet to see a believable line earlier than the 1500s -- and I'm related to several US Presidents.

 

[Savedsis]

Hiya Clessie. I'll have to email you sometime and see what we can do. I'm really interested in this. Thanks for replying.

~Chele

Sister Clessie helped me out....She is a blessing....

 

[Serenpidity24]

Hi Everyone,

I am new to the board. So glad to see there is also a genealogy group . I absolutely love genealogy!

I have researched my mother's side back to the 1800's and my father's side back to approx. 1700 Scottish roots. I have hit a brick wall with my maternal gggrandparents but still working on this side of the family.

 

[Mr_Hursh]

I can trace my ancestry back one thousand years on my father's side. I suppose I could go farther since I have already gotten that far, but I haven't had the chance or time. My sister did a lot of work on it one time, and she was able to get things more organized, but the paper she was working on got lost somehow.

 

[cobweb]

The earliest that I have in my file is 1080 AD, but I haven't personally confirmed that (using things like tax records, censuses, baptism records, and wills.)

I do have one line that is absolutely confirmed back to the 1780s. Most of my stuff is only checked to the early 1800s.

 

[Pentecostal Boy]

Not far... I just know that my Great Grandmothers fam came over here because of the Great Potatoe Famine. I obviously known bout my indian heritage we were here before the Europeans had tot come and ruin it for us lol j/k but it didn't help us. lol My Grandmother had this thing gone that traced my great great great great (u get the idea) Grandfather to the Pre-Revolutionary War. He sold a cow that coincidentally wasn't his and was sentenced to pay his fine or become an indentured servant. He was from Baldock, England. My Grandmothers maiden name is Baldock by the way. As for the German and the Welsh... search me

 

[Endotek06]

The farthest I've been able to trace is to my Great-Great-Great Grandparents, born in 1803 and 1806. they are laid to rest about 10 miles from here. They moved from PA to here in Ohio in 1836, and most of my family has remained in the area ever since.

 

[VeronicasImage]

We're researching our Romanian history at present. I have much work to do,it's time consuming but this is worth it.

 

[Spudgrandma]

I have my fathers side of the family back 15 generations from my grandchildren and I have my husband's grandmother's family back 13 generations from my grandkids.

 

[Savedsis]

I have my fathers side of the family back 15 generations from my grandchildren and I have my husband's grandmother's family back 13 generations from my grandkids.

That is really good....It is fun isn't it?

 

[Spudgrandma]

That is really good....It is fun isn't it?

It is great fun Savedsis, especially when you stumble on a link and are able to follow it for awhile. I'm happy to see someone I know here. I don't know how I missed your post above. Not paying attention I guess.

 

[Endotek06]

That is really good....It is fun isn't it?

No doubt1 It's EASY to get hooked!!

 

[Fredkc6cfb]

Tracing my roots is very difficult.
My father is African-American and his family are from southern Louisiana (around Opelousas and New Iberia). He never told me much about his parents or grandparents. I know his mother died when he was 5-years old, and his father (a womanizer and heavy drinker) abandoned him shortly thereafter. My dad once mentioned that his grandmother had been a methodist preacher who traveled around southern Louisiana by mule-drawn cart in the 1920s, ministering to the folks out in the fields.
My mother was half Choctaw (on her mother's side) and half-Irish (and her father's side). I know less about that half of my family than my dad's.
And there are very few relatives left old enough to help me fill in the gaps.

 

[Lenora56]

Tracing my roots is very difficult.
My father is African-American and his family are from southern Louisiana (around Opelousas and New Iberia). He never told me much about his parents or grandparents. I know his mother died when he was 5-years old, and his father (a womanizer and heavy drinker) abandoned him shortly thereafter. My dad once mentioned that his grandmother had been a methodist preacher who traveled around southern Louisiana by mule-drawn cart in the 1920s, ministering to the folks out in the fields.
My mother was half Choctaw (on her mother's side) and half-Irish (and her father's side). I know less about that half of my family than my dad's.
And there are very few relatives left old enough to help me fill in the gaps.

Have you tried Googling your Irish grandfather's name? I've found some interesting information doing that. What about the courthouses in the areas where your grandparents, etc. were born/married/died? I know you may have done all that already.

 

[USincognito]

Mom's side of the family hasn't moved much since arriving in the early 1600s in Massachusetts so around 1630 for that lineage. My dads family had moved around a lot and the actual names and such had become more of a family lore than a family tree. Starting in the mid-1990s, my dad did all the leg work and put together his geneology back to the first U.S. Census in 1790 before he died in 2001.

 

[akasmom]

Let's see:
On my moms dads side, to Ireland (via Iceland) in the 300's. On her moms side, to Denmark in the 1600's and to Pennsylvania in about 1850, and Germany in the mid 1700's.
On my dads dads side, Ireland in the late 1800's, on his moms side to England in the 1540's.