How far can you trace your lineage?

I can trace my maternal lineage back to the planet Xenonphorocus, to a pair of Xenonites who were on the first mission to Earth to seed the planet with life many millions of years ago.

On my paternal side, I can only trace it back to King Arthur.

 

I can trace back my lineage to the Aztecs and the Mayans. Back in Mexico, there were settlers that moved over from the Northern part of Mexico and...

... ah, who am I kidding... I can't trace my lineage NONE. I was kidding! I'm a mixed mutt!

I think everyone on this board is.

 

I don't even know who my biological father is?

 

I actually do genealogy and specialize in the Louisiana area. I've traced some parts of my family back to the 1200's in France, a few direct ancestors are noblehomme so yea it's a pretty interesting thing to do if you have the time.

 

Anyone interested in looking up their own family on Ancestry.com for free can follow this link.

http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com/aleweb/ale/do/login?userid=09MVKG32BH&password=WELCOME

 

I think I'm related to this guy:





Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than rule the largest empire in the world; according to a recently published genetic study, he may have helped populate it too.

An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical. That translates to 0.5 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendants living today.

 

Wow this is amazing - thanks! I found an original record of the passenger list of a ship that came from Germany to New York in 1922 and had my great grandfather on it as a passenger (he was the doctor/physician on the ship).

 

Yea it's really interesting stuff especially if you love history like I do.

 

I've traced my direct patrilinear line back to 1650, in Erlangen, Bavaria, and which point the trail stops. My dad's side of the family were French Hugenots, and after the St. Bart's day massacre in 1572 fled france. after settling in Bavaria, they moved north, and eventually settled in a Hugenot refugee colony in Fredericia, Jutland (Denmark). the colony was very insular, and most inhabitants intermarried, and stayed within the church, which kept excellent records.

they had very biblical sounding names, lots of Jakobs, and Issacs, and Johannes, but also french names such as Francois, Pierre, Corneille, and Jean-Rene. After WW1, my family left the colony and moved to Copenhagen, and my father emigrated to the US in 1955 to marry my mother in San Augustine, TX.

My mom's side of the family has been in this country since the 1600s, and emigrated from England. After living in Virginia for a time, they moved to southwest Georgia after the revolution. one of my best friends has traced his family back to the same area, and there's fairly good evidence my people used to own his people.

A branch of the family then moved to piney woods, red dirt, east texas, and my mom was born in Choice, TX., where my Grandfather ran the general store and was a postman. They moved to San Augustine in the 1930s.

there were some pretty fabulous names on her side as well, such as Mirabeau Lamar, Sampson Marcellus. Mirabeau Lamar Carter was my great-grandfather, and his father, who'd stayed in Georgia, was named James Carter. James had a brother named Wiley Carter. Wiley's great-grandson was also named James, and this James had a son, named James as well, although he's more commonly referred to as Jimmy.

 

i think there is a family tree in clan base back in northern china. haven't looked at it yet though. other than that, the entire clan lineage is recorded on the 'grand history' written 2000 years ago. apparently, about 3000 years ago the entire clan changed name after given a piece of land in northern china. originally chen. not anymore after that.

 

Adam and Eve b****es.

 

Anyone else have any interesting stories to tell?

 

I'm adopted and have never met my biological parents. I'm convinced that I came from Krypton.

In my adopted family, my aunt (father's sister) has traced our lineage back to Germany in the 1750's. My ancestor Lewis Linder immigrated with his family to South Carolina and was executed for being a Tory during the Revolution. My brother has our maternal grandfather's paternal grandfather's discharge papers from the Union Army (Missouri, although he was from Arkansas) during the Civil War.

 

I guess we're related then. My maternal grandmother has roots back to Jimmy.

My paternal roots end somewhere in Arkansas. The first mention of my great great grandfather was on the enlistment roster of the 19th Arkansas Regiment in 1861. Before that, there's nothing, absolutely no record.

 

Try checking the censuses, there pretty useful if you haven't looked through them yet.

 

cool- do you know how your grandmother (and you) are related to "cousin Jimmy?" there's some good info here on his family tree here:

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/jec/genealog.phtml

[rquoter]Kindred Carter

Kindred Carter (c. 1750-1800) came to Georgia from the Bertie-Edgecombe-Hertford area of northeastern North Carolina where his family had lived for several generations. He was of the 5th generation in descent from Thomas Carter, Sr. who came in 1637 from England to Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Thomas Carter's only known child was Thomas, Jr., who married Magdalene Moore and left a will in 1710. In that will, Thomas, Jr. did not name all of his children, but Moore Carter (c. 1680-1741) who married Jane and moved to Bertie County, North Carolina, is believed to have been his son. Moore left a will naming a son Isaac who married Ruth and died after 1790. Isaac and Ruth were the parents of Kindred and James, among others. Kindred and James both came to Georgia.

Kindred Carter settled in Richmond County, on the frontier of the new state, along Little Germany creek. This land is now part of McDuffie County, approximately 35 miles west of Augusta, Georgia. At his death in 1800, his estate listed four heirs:

James, b. 1773 in North Carolina
Henry
Jesse
Martha
James Carter (1773-1858)

James Carter married Eleanor "Nellie" Duckworth in 1798 in Columbia County, Georgia. She was a daughter of Jeremiah and Christianna Ramsey Duckworth of Warren and Columbia Counties. The Carters moved permanently to Warren County c. 1815, where they lived along White's Creek on a 500 acre plantation, approximately four miles NW of Thomson, Georgia. Around 1835 James moved to Talbot County to join his brother Jesse and lived in the SW part of the county near Upatoi Creek. It was here that he owned land at the time of his death in Schley County at the plantation of his son Wiley. James had been a cotton planter and a Baptist.

James and Nellie Carter had 9 children:

Wiley, b. 1798
Epsey (1803-1867)
Littleberry (1807-1847)
Felix M. (d. 1844)
Marina "Rina" (b. 1809, m. 1832)
Keziah (1805-1855)
Martha (m. 1837)
George W. (m. 1837)
James D. (d. 1854)[/rquoter]

 

I had a great aunt that spent 15 or 20 years compiling a family history, the hard way, before the internet and email. She never had any luck finding anything. So I took it upon myself to continue the search online. I've scanned a lot of census records, send out emails, talked to people, trolled numerous forums and I still haven't come up with anything. He's like a ghost.

I'll have to talk with grannie to get all the details. Chances are it's on the black sheep side of the family

 

can trace my great-great grandfather to Tennesee (born 1847) but the trail stops there...