A challenge,- track your ancestors as far as possible

[Angus]

Those are from nearby Dusseldorf, so that makes you a...German
Anyway, you cannot trace the line down there, now can you

[Dux]

Seems Im decended from one

Neander t.  hal

but that was a long time ago

 

Yes, we can see the resemblance.

[cpxxx]

I can go back to 975 for a poet sharing my name. I have an ancestor or at least a member of my clan who was a famed warrior who died alongside the famous high king of Ireland Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 fighting against Angus' ancestors who were a raping and a pillaging back then. We won the battle 

But direct ancestors are tougher to find. My sister is in the middle of it. One of my great great grandfathers was a Lord somebody or other who has had a statue erected to him in a park in Limerick city. You may address me as 'M'lord'.

[Halo46]

 cain went out and got a wife from the other races that where allready here,  adam and eve where the first made in GODS image.

  and yes GOD made those other races also, so we are all chrildren of GOD.
 but, seeings we live in the end of days,  most people do not believe in GOD  and think that science is the way.
   

Which generation has not lived in the end of days in the last 3k years or so? Why is everyone in such a hurry to stop playing Aces High? Please, stop yelling FIRE. By-the-by, how did this thread go from fun to religion?

[AWMac]

By-the-by, how did this thread go from fun to religion?

Well I have yet attended a Family Reunion without GOD or his SON being brought up...

Grandpa: "GOD dangit Cora where the Hell are my teeth?"
Grandma: "Jesus Christ Herman they're still in the dam glass you left them in.
Mom: "Holy Chit, Pop lost his teeth again?"
Dad: "Well come Hell or High Water somebody under GODs creation better find his dam teeth."
My Brother: "Can I have Pop Pops corn if we don't find his teeth?"
Mom: *Slaps the GOD fearing crap outta my Lil Brother, then looks at me*
Me: "To Hell with this corn!"
My Sister: *Begins to cry like Hell*

Yeah I see alotta religion in a thread such as this.  Family Reunions are Fun.

 

Mac

[evenhaim]

Morroco in the 1800s. But realisticly proably could trace all the way to 1400's pre-inquisition spain.

[Angus]

I can go back to 975 for a poet sharing my name. I have an ancestor or at least a member of my clan who was a famed warrior who died alongside the famous high king of Ireland Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 fighting against Angus' ancestors who were a raping and a pillaging back then. We won the battle 

But direct ancestors are tougher to find. My sister is in the middle of it. One of my great great grandfathers was a Lord somebody or other who has had a statue erected to him in a park in Limerick city. You may address me as 'M'lord'.

Just wait...
I'll get into my British line. I could also get into my Norse line, but that one bluts away in the 8th century.
My British line comes from Pillaging. Well, actually Ireland. My ancestor-ess was grabbed by Norse Vikings and sold to an Icelandic Viking who fell in love with her, while doing his "pillage" duty for the King of Norway.
Oddly enough, they split up later, and he gave her a farm, where she lived with her son, who later took over..
Names arrive later

[Angus]

BTW, as far as I know, we do not come from Neaderthals. They were a sideline.
I am amazed that nobody actually quoted on this...

Getting back...into line...I can go as far as "Melkorka daughter of Mýrkjartan" which is in Gaelich "Muirckertoch" from the clan of McNeill.
I will need to get into some files for tracking, but it goes down deep into the Irish Monarchies of 1000 and earlier.
Their logs are quite interesting. The onland of England post-Roman untill their kings seems quite blurry for instance.

[Airhead]

we tracked my Daddy as far as North Carolina, but after that his trail just dried up. 

[DREDIOCK]

Yes, we can see the resemblance.

LOL if you ever saw a picture of me.
you would see just how accurate that statement is LMAO

[snowey]

my dad has it all the way back to when my family moved to america from ireland in the early 1900 i am a litle over 50 irish and my dad has it back to the early 1800

[Angus]

If you're back to 1800 in Ireland, you should be able to get further.
My wife (who is German) has it back to 1600 or so, but then things blur out, - constant land warfare on the continent you see.
But Ireland had long and well registered lines. If you can track to a line of nobles, then Presto, - you have an express backwards for centuries.

[BlauK]

The records of my own line have been lost in burning churches during the wars, 1939-40 and 1941-44

However, my kids, through my wife, can be traced 15 generations back to Swedish king Erik XIV. His father was King Gustav I (Gustav Vasa) and 13 generations back from Gustav, there are Leopold III (Saint Leopold) the Margrave of Austria (1073-1136) and his wife, Agnes of Germany (widow of Duke Frederick I of Swabia).

It is also told that Erik XIV was very interested in genealogy and had drawn his family tree back some 90 generations, all the way to Adam...

[DieAz]

Blauk, you might want to keep a close eye on those kids.
read the end of the 1st paragraph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden

[C(Sea)Bass]

My grandfather researched it back to a man beheaded for rape, murder, and stealing horses, in what became Bavaria, in the 800's AD.

Following my geneology back I'm related to some rather dubious fellows, 1 burgermeister (spelling?), 1 American President (Reagan), 2 serial killers, most of the Irish mob in Boston, alot of WW1 and WW2 vets, and possibly a girl I dated in high school (we may have had a common ancestor who was born in 1650ish).