The first rimrocker in America shows up on a document that says he's in Virginia in 1635 making a living selling "horses and slaves." Before him, rimrockers go back at least to the 1200's in England and include a minor literary figure. On my dad's mother's side, I'm related to the old west outlaw John Wesley Hardin, a man so mean he once shot a man for snoring. See more about him at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hardin
My sixth great uncle is Stephen F. Austin. I have traced my mom's line back to the 1400 or 1500's to a ship called Besis I think that brought them over from England.
My great great grandfather on mom's side was a runaway slave from South Carolina, or so I'm told. No idea how he ended up in Texas. That about as far as I can go on either side.
On my German side, I can trace it back to about 1,100, but only because one of my distant relatives was really into genealogy and published a book with the family tree. Apparently one of my ancestors was very close to Martin Luther. Unfortunately, it seems like I also have some French aristocrats as ancestors . On the Korean side, I have no idea.
I'm a first gen american. I can trace my mom, and dad. After that, I don't really know my grand parents.
My mom's side of the family is to the Mayflower and beyond to Scotland, England, and Wales. I still have cousins in the UK. My dad's side....no idea except for being Scots-Irish. I'm not, but I could be, a Son of the American Revolution. I'm at least a 4th generation Texan, which is really all the matters.
Wow this is an interesting thread. Apparently, other than bedouins, a lot of Arabs can trace their lineage back 1500+ years.
Germany, 1600s. I also traced my wife back to England, 1200s. I'd suggest Family Tree Maker and a monthly subscription (which you can cancel) to anyone who's really interested. They have some really great resources- I found a scan of a portrait of my great-great-great-great grandfather, and then a picture of his son.
I haven't done the research myself, but my mom has told us several times that we are descendants of Abigail Adams - that's as far back as I know.
in america...early - mid 1700. I can't remember all the details someone traced the family back to France in the middle ages.
My grandmother was born in 1918, so about then is as far as I personally know. I have some relatives on both sides who have done some geneology study, but I haven't looked at the results. My father has some stories about our ancestry but they're Texas tall-tales. My mother's geneology is, no doubt, just a long line of French farmers. My wife has a more interesting geneology. Her mother's adoptive father was a minister in the Chang Kai-Shek government. The line traces back to Ming dynasty royalty allegedly. Meanwhile, her father's side are rust-belt blacks, probably descended from freed slaves who came north in the early 20th century. It's a funny match.
My surname is of a territorial origin taken from lands in Scotland first appearing in documents in 1238. I think my family has been successful in tracing our direct ancestors back to the late 1700's / early 1800's.
Have no definite idea. At least one side of my family has roots in Taiwan for 7 or 8 generations. I had a friend who said one of his ancestors was a royal eunich. I was thinking how??
My mother's maiden name is Villarreal. We can trace our family back to Spain, when it was Cohen Villarreal before the Inquisition, and then to Belarus a looong time before that. So about 1200-1500 years? A lot of that has to do with genetic tests. But direct tracing is tough. I know we can go back to the 1800s in (now) New Mexico, but I'm not sure how far beyond that we can go.
Interesting thread. I don't have dates so I'll go with conversations. My Grandfather was 1st generation Dutch from Holland. We're actually Black Dutch by way of Germany...German potato farmers went to Holland for better land along time ago. My mother side is a bit different. I've heard different stories but haven't been able to meld them together. Mom is a descendent of a princess who was married to a Samurai. ANother story that keeps popping up is our relationship with the city of Nagasaki, which happens to be my mom's maiden name. They say someone in our family was once ruled that city. But, and if I may quote Jimi Hendrix, "Who Knows"
