How far back have you been able to go?

[yesterdog]

We should all list the surnames we're working on.

Lipsey

Gunn

Patzke

Radtke

Kratzke

McCormick

Mallory

Rood

Howland

...among many others!!!

 

[CaerMac]

One of my lines, MacCrystyn/Christian, has been traced back to 1300s Isle of Man but I am not confidant of the accuracy.

 

[CaerMac]

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[Rich48]

I have been able to trace my surname back to the 1600's and some intermarriages a little farther back (all due to a book I luckied into at the Ohio Historical Library which traced the Brill line back into Germany; but as to my mom's side of the family, have never got any farther back than what she wrote in the family bible (my gg's). If anyone has any info on FRAZIER from Milan, Tn, would love you forever!

Rocj

 

[Jerlene]

I've only been able to go as far back as the late 1800's. This is Hawaii. I was surprised/lucky that I could go back that far.

 

[Aspirant]

I can trace some lines back to mid 1500's. As for tracing my own surname (Brown) - its a nightmare trying to sort one Brown from another. Only back to late 1700's on that one.

 

[foadle]

1728 but if all the infro I have is correct - there are a couple of things I need to check out 1650

 

[foadle]

I have a thread - helping hands devoted to that purpose - no one has posted though

 

[united4Peace]

On my mothers side through my grandfather I have gone back to the 1700's here in Canada. As they came from the States (Loyalists).
I have found a tree online that someone had done that had gone way back to about 400 ad.
On my paternal side I just recently found though a newly found relative that someone has traced the family back to the 1500's to when they came to Massachussettes (spelling?) and HaverHill New Hampshire.
They didnt come to Canada until sometime in the late 1800's.

 

[vicarius]

I have a great uncle and second cousin who have traced family lineage back to John Rolfe and Pocahontas. I'm somewhat sceptical about that.

More reliable and interesting, I think, is my wife's family history, which has been traced back to Ralph Lotspeich, an early Methodist Circut Preacher in Kentucky and Ohio during the early 1800s. He is mentioned in the autobiography of Peter Cartwright, one of the more famous circut preachers of the era, as the evangelist with whom Cartwright first traveled with when he began his preaching ministry.

 

[brknllama]

yea... my uncle has been able to go back to the Holy Roman Empire... to the Franks... King Charlemagne.... yea...

 

[myhearts4God]

I've made it back to 1541 in England....a Tyramore Huggins who got the ball rolling . Of course, this is from a distant cousin I found in my research and I don't have full documentation from him yet.

 

[Pure_Joy]

I my self have been able to trace my mothers side of the family back as far as 1640. I learned that they came from Germany sometime during the early part of the 1700 and some of them were involved in the Revalutionary war and later on they moved to Missouri and became involved in t he Civil War. They had people that fought on both the North and South sides. It really gets you interested in history.

WE have traced my fathers side of the family back to early jamestown... George Washington is our cousin.... (His father and our forefather are brothers) The names Laurance and Chareles have been passed down throughout

 

[dinkime]

one line (my mother's mother's father, lol) we have all the way back to charlemagne -- all thanks to a website i found!!

 

[PriyaRoshni]

On my fathers side they have traced the family back to 1175 in Scotland, the farm house is still standing and is a memorial to the family (who were famous Covenanters). One of them, John Howie wrote Scots Worthies, which is still in print 300 or so years later. It covers the resistance to romish persecutions 1200-1700. It was amazing, we went to the farm 2 years ago, and then to near by Fenwick, where many of the family were buried, it was amazing reading the old tomb stones. One of them is about a young solder who was captured and after they had killed him "they made sport with his head". One of my GGGG(whatever) grandmothers is also a legend, she threw a fire grating at English soldiers when they broke into the house and gave time for her husband and sons to escape. The fire grating is still there in the museum. My Grandmother was born there and came to Australia when she was 16 and still had her Scottish accent until she died 2 years ago. I remember thinking as a child that as every one got older they must develop a Scottish accent, not something that just my Grandmother had.

On my maternal Grandfathers side, they have traced them back past the First Fleet (to Australia). Its funny, in America everyone is proud if they can trace them selves back to the Mayflower etc with coming to America to flee religious persecution, and in Australia everyone is proud if they can trace themselves back to a criminal on the first fleet! well one of our ancestors was on the first fleet, but he was a botanist, so that is not as interesting . However we do have an ancestor who was 'transported' as they so nicely called it (and we are immensely proud of it), he was caught forging banknote, we have a copy of the banknote. He would have got off with a fine, but he wanted to come to Australia and so he swore at the judge. His wife came out with him (they could only afford passage for one) and when they came to Australia, he was assigned to her farm and worked for her as indentured labour until he was free, 15 or so years later. Anyway, its funny to see that the artistic streak (not the swearing) has been handed down in our family. My sister is a very talented artist and I can copy anything. My husband was away for a month and a letter came in that had to be signed in a hurry, he asked me to forge his signature. My brother-in-law was with me at the time and he said "B..... H... you can see why your family ended up in Australia" (I only use my powers for good )

That's my family and I am proud of it. It was amazing to go and see where my ancestors lived, and died. My husband knows nothing of his ancestry. I have asked his parents, but they say nothing. He comes from Croatia, and I think a lot of records have been destroyed in various wars that have been though there. Anyway, he can have my family history now.

What are the stories that you have found about your family? I would love to know what has happened to other people.

 

[Mr_Hursh]

one line (my mother's mother's father, lol) we have all the way back to charlemagne -- all thanks to a website i found!!

Wow! What website was this?