Did any of you guys trace your family tree back to the 1765?

Question

Did any of you guys trace your family tree back to the 1765?

Answer 1

Yes. I've traced many lines back to the 1500's. These family lines have one or more of the following characteristics:

Non-common surnames for the era/location.

They could read and write. Educated people, in the past, founded towns, nations, and industries, thus generating documents

They wrote about themselves.

They did things that others wrote about.

They came from areas that were stable enough to conserve civil and church records from destruction.

If you aim for lines with these characteristics, you will have greater initial success, and it will encourage you to seek the lines of your more obscure, but equally important, lesser known lines.

I have several lines brick-walled at the 1850's, but after a year-and-half of work, I'm sure I will hone my skills to trace these folks back further, too.

I'd suggest a newbie join a local genealogical society. The masters know lots of tricks for finding a valuable document to add to a shoe-box.

Happy hunting.

Answer 2

Yes I have.

Answer 3

Mine goes back 14 generations here in USA, to 1594 in Mass.

Answer 4

Yes 1735 Cornwall England

Answer 5

I traced all of my lines to 1800, only 3 lines end there until I can hop on a plane and spend a week in Belgium...the black hole of European genealogy research...and get the rest of the research completed. All of the other 32 lines go back to at least 1400. 7 of those lines go back to 1200 and another 2 lines go back to the 7th century.

Answer 6

I've traced my Mom's side back to about 1662 so far in England (her maiden name is also the name of a town in Leicestershire; and was also in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book census of 1086). For a friend of my sister's, I traced his family back to his 14th great-grandfather in Germany (early 1720's or thereabouts, giving 20 years per generation), and his mother's 12th great-grandfather in Switzerland (both names changed spellings along the way, too).

Answer 7

the furtherest date I can find is around 1680 on my maternal grandmother's mother's father's side...

Answer 8

how do you do it?

Answer 9

Yes...and even further

Answer 10

Yes and further by a few hundred years.

Answer 11

My grandparents were born in the early 1860s; their grandparents were born before the Revolutionary War, so yes.

Contrary to many, it is easy to go far back into time...if you can connect to someone famous!

On my dad's side I have gone back to the early 1400s in Germany; on my mom's side, I have gone back to Charlemagne, and far beyond.

That's by paper trail; by DNA testing, far beyond.