A challenge,- track your ancestors as far as possible

[Modas]

Ah, just having a bit of fun. Not really totally aimed at you but it seemed like fun to try to top your little mis-step there. No offense meant.

None taken - I figgered it out after the next couple of posts


my fuse is a little short today.  House almost burned down this morning from what appears to be a malfunctioning pellet stove.  Between the lightning strike last august and this, I'm starting to think the house is cursed.

Carry on the mocking...   

[Angrist]

None taken - I figgered it out after the next couple of posts


my fuse is a little short today.  House almost burned down this morning from what appears to be a malfunctioning pellet stove.  Between the lightning strike last august and this, I'm starting to think the house is cursed.

Carry on the mocking...   

Whew....ok.  Glad to see it wasn't what I though.  Sorry about your house, man.....curses suck!

[Hornet33]

Contact the Ghost Hunters. Maybe your house is haunted and they are trying to tell you something. At any rate you might get to be on the Sci-Fi Channel

[Vulcan]

William, Duke of Normandy, 1066 or thereabouts (seriously). My uncle had a family tree done many years ago.

[Xargos]

Your best bet is to get a DNA test done.  You'll never know if your Great Grandmother had an affair just by tracking paperwork.

[Dux]

Edward Beales, Hingham, England. 1550.

My uncle did all the work getting it back that far. To get any further we'd have to go there and dig through church records or censuses, if they even still exist.

[Halo46]

My grandmother's sister traced her side back to 1320's in the Kent area of England. My mother's parents were Mormon's so have an extensive geneology done with a couple famous/infamous persons., not sure how far back they go, England though. My dad's stops with my GG grandfather born in 1855, Died 1955. I am hoping to take after him and be around a long time just to bug people. I am too lazy to go look things up, someone give me a swift kick to get me started... Just think of all the threads geneology weaves.

[Aqualung]

Modas and I may be related .  I just traced my maternal grandmother's side back to this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren.

[MoeRon]

Jeremiah MOWRY [Parents]-3262 was born 1 on 7 Apr 1711. Jeremiah married 2 (MRIN:1683) Alice MOWRY-3637 on 27 Feb 1734.

My Great great great great grandparents

[eskimo2]

Eight Generations B.C. – no kidding.  I had been meaning to study my family’s genealogy for years and finally got around to it a couple months ago.  I got the basics from my parents and then joined Ancestry.com  I was able to go further than great-great with 10 of my 16 great great grandparents.  The key is getting back far enough where you can tap into a documented family tree; this usually comes with royalty.  Most of the work and dead ends seems to come from more recent generations.  Luck plays a role as well.  It seems that many places have excellent records.  Other places had records destroyed in fires, floods, wars, etc.  My mother-in-law’s father was orphaned when he was a baby; couple that with a common name like John Kelly and research becomes very difficult.

 

Here’s an important concept that I really had never thought about or comprehended: Save even distant incest, we all have 1024 ancestors 10 generations back.  Go back 20 generations and we have 1,048,576 ancestors.  30 generations back gives us over a billion.  I’m convinced that all of us have royal blood somewhere.  I’m also convinced that we are all the product of second, third and fourth, etc. cousins marrying over and over again.  When you look at the huge size of many families from older generations, the situation becomes confounding.  Suppose that a couple had three children who each survive to have three children, who each survive to have three children, etc.  After 10 generations they have nearly 60,000 descendants.  At 20 generations they have 3.5 million and at 30 generations the number becomes over 200 trillion.  Distant incest keeps this number realistic, however. 

 

When I realized this and also found one line that went back 8 generations before Christ, it kind of took the thrill out of the research.  When I tapped into the pedigrees in one world tree and saw how many lines kept spreading and going and spreading and going, it kind of sunk in that at a certain point it’s not as much my family tree as it is just history and ancestry of maybe half of the white folks alive…  It seems like you could spend forever reading names and dates.

 

Anyway, here’s my family tree page on my website:

http://hallbuzz.com/family_trees/hall/david_halls_family_tree.htm

 

And here’s my wife’s:

http://hallbuzz.com/family_trees/wilsterman/joan_wilstermans_family_tree.htm

 

[Angus]

WOW! I'm impressed by the responce!
Anyway, a certain decendant of William the Bastard, who won the Battle at Hastings in 1066, seems to be the leader here, namely VULCAN!!!
Now I'm all ears to see how the tree goes that far, and to stir things up, I'll poke an evil top on the bid for 1066 if needed.....tree will be suppotred 

[eskimo2]

WOW! I'm impressed by the responce!
Anyway, a certain decendant of William the Bastard, who won the Battle at Hastings in 1066, seems to be the leader here, namely VULCAN!!!
Now I'm all ears to see how the tree goes that far, and to stir things up, I'll poke an evil top on the bid for 1066 if needed.....tree will be suppotred 

Eight Generations B.C.

[eskimo2]

Here's where one line gets fuzzy:

Godeguslus Of The Vandals
Born:    abt 370
Andalusia Spain, Roman Empire,      
Died:    406
Battle,


Radagaisus Vandals
Born:    abt 350
Eastern, Hungary     
Died:    405
Rome, , , Italy


Miecislaus I Heruli
Born:    abt 320
 , , Germany     
Died:    388
 , , Germany


Wisimar King Heruli
Born:    abt 260
Danube Valley, Yugoslavia     
Died:    340
Denmark


Alberic I Heruli
Born:    abt 225
Germay,      
Died:    292
Danube Valley, Yugoslavia


Teneric Heruli
Born:    abt 195
Hungary     
Died:    237
Heruli,


Dietric Heruli
Born:    abt 160
Germay,      
Died:    201


Alaric I Heruli
Born:    abt 126
Germay,      
Died:    162
Heruli,


Vitilaus King Heruli
Born:    abt 86
AD, Heruli,      
Died:    127
Heruli,

[texasmom]

Guilliame Gamache ~ France ~ 1460ish (or something close to that... frankly, I don't want to look it up right now).

[eskimo2]

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus[2] (27 February ca. 272[1] – 22 May 337), commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great (among Roman Catholics), or Saint Constantine (among Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians), was an Illyrian Roman Emperor. He was proclaimed Augustus by his troops in 306, ruled an ever-growing portion of the Roman Empire until his death. Best known for being the first Christian Roman Emperor, the Edict of Milan - issued by his co-emperor Licinius - helped to put an end to institutionalized persecution of Christians in the Empire.