Where does you family tree trace back to?

Question

Where does you family tree trace back to?

Answer 1

I am related to Mary Todd and she maried President Lincoln so hes like my distant cousin

Answer 2

to the sponge of the far end horizontal sea rising from millions years ago.... that's sad.

Answer 3

By paper trail, Native Americans, all over Europe, parts of the Middle East and 3 countries in Africa.

By DNA testing, every continent...

To include Charlemagne, bishops, ship's captains, carpenters, iron smelterers, goldsmiths...

It is so much fun, entertaining and educational.

Answer 4

I know I have deep roots in Italy (Sicily area) on my father's side. And on my mother's side, there is quite a mix. One which takes my blood back to an african slave that took the name Sutherland after slavery was abolished in the U.S. and he fled to the Caribbean, and ultimately to Venezuela (where I was born).

I wish I knew more about it, actually.

Answer 5

for my direct lines, on my paternal side, we can only get to 1798 in western north carolina. On my maternal side, we go back to Denmark mmmmm.... maybe to the mid 1700s?

Answer 6

100% irish here, mothers side got off the boat in the 1820's..father side in the early 1800's.

Answer 7

1493 I have a list that goes back 14 grandfathers from me

Answer 8

England, Sweden, France, Ireland, Geurnsey (Channel Islands -- it was part of France when my family was there).

Maybe Germany or Czechoslovakia.

Answer 9

Wow, great question! My dad's line goes back to the Huguenot refugees, in the late 1600s his ancestor Jean Bossard and his wife and 3 children from Strasbourg, Alsace, France, escaped King Louis XIV and his ministers to England, then in 1700 to Virginia aboard the "Peter and Anthony". The Calvinists were being slaughtered by the Catholic leaders in France but not elsewhere. There are some neat pioneer/frontier stories of the Bozarths in Pennsylvania and now West Virginia. Indian raids and the mother fighting off the Indians with a frying pan, shovel, and the like. Here's one: http://www.wvculture.org/HiStory/wvhs140...

As for my mother's side, I have ancestors that fought in the Battle of San Jacinto (Texas Independence), and were among the first of Stephen F. Austin's Colonists (Old Three Hundred). One of these folks, my "uncle", was a close friend of Stephen F. Austin and hunted for him on trips to San Antonio and Mexico. He is in the portrait with SFA that hangs in the Texas State Capitol. His father, John Foster, donated the land on which was built Jefferson Military College in Washington, Mississippi (a town he founded; near Natchez). Jefferson Davis grew up in the area and also was a cadet. John Foster later went to Texas with his sons in 1824. (His ancestry is lost.) Randolph Foster, my "uncle" hunted frequently in Texas many years before that and settled his "grant" in 1821.

I am also descended from Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard 1640s, who is also ancestor of Time Magazine founder Henry Luce.

Another ancestor, Edmund Freeman, arrived in Boston in 1635 and later co-founded Sandwich, Massachusetts. Another descendant of his is Lizzie Borden.

Through my mother's line I also have ancestry to Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror (as does probably everyone else of British ancestry here! Really!), the Plantagenets, etc., and one line goes back to a "Kari Fornjottson, King of Kvenland" (Finland) born about 185 AD. When I found that, I thought that was cool because my name is Kari and I am male, so all you gals out there with that spelling, well, IT'S A GUY'S NAME! Now you know =)

The early Kings of England prescribe their ancestry through Etheldreda, the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea,  through which anyone who claims ancestry to such kings therefore has a "clear line" to Adam and Eve due to the presumption that Joseph of Arimathea was Mary's (mother of Christ) uncle, and she is of the line of David.

Beyond that, I presume Lucy is in there somewhere =)

Answer 10

Robert E. Lee is my great great great.... something grandpa's cousin, and I'm related to some queen elizabeth, not sure which one. (I will sound very stupid when it turns out there is only one.)

Answer 11

Mom:Ireland, Byelorussia, Poland and Israel

Dad: England, Germany and Israel

Answer 12

gungos kong...  im not sure if i spelled that right

Answer 13

Well, my Mom said I may be related to St. Patrick =/

I don't know much about my Dad's side..

I'm a mutt actually, for all I know I'm Irish, English, German, and that's my Mom's side. Who knows about my Dad.

Answer 14

our welsh side traced back to america

Answer 15

my family traces back 2 the philipines .

Answer 16

One side can be traced back to southern italy. the other side of my family just appears out of no-where.

Answer 17

England, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and France.

Answer 18

I have been working on mine for several months.

Have managed to get back to 1770, but am now finding it difficult, as some of them emigrated to Canada.

It is compelling, and i,m enjoying it.