How far have you traced your family tree? Any interesting stories? I traced mine back to 1825. I found out that I was related to a couple of my old classmates.

i had help from the orger SHANNA last year with finding out my ancestry
interesting finds, i still havent been able to read it all because ive been so busy but i appreciate having the opportunity to find out

My favorite find was the fact that my great-great paternal grandfather was a bullfighter. I am an animal lover and would not consent to this in this life time, but damn..how cool is that?!

mannotamyth said:

I think it great that you made it that far.I did my family tree too
it pretty cool what you find about your family.

I didn't do it myself, but on my mom's side we can go back to about the 1600's.

On My dad's we can go back as far as my dad

I am adopted..but was lucky enough to find out who my birthmother was...I looked at her family and learned about when the Pense family came over to America that was pretty cool. And in my search I found a cousin, who I still speak to now!

I have learned that my son's Dad's family...comes from the very same Graham's that created Graham flour..the very flour that is used to make graham crackers. That was very interesting.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Olé !

mannotamyth said:

My father has this tracing as a hobby.
Right now he is at around 1600. That's 11 generations back...

I had a family member do this. My people were the Vikings that invaded England and then became English only to get a deal on land and bring them all to the original settlements of Virginia. Interesting indeed. She found lists of things they owned when they died and I was disgusted to find that my bloodline owned slaves. I've never liked that side of the family and now I have yet another reason.

NDRU said:

Same here. I do know some about my grandparents (they were from Hungary) but they both died relatively young in accidents. I've just hired a professional geneaologist and he's helping me trace my father's lineage back.

I found out that I am:

Black ( I obviously knew this fact)
German
Dutch
Irish
Cherokee Indian

Very interesting stuff!

I didn't do it, but another family member did and found out that my family originated from the Canary Islands

the 1600s my granddad's cousin researched it.
that side of the family came from Poland and Lithuania mostly.

We decend from Greek gods.