How far back have you traced your genealogy?

[MarkFL]

In recent years, I have been able to trace my ancestry through by maternal side, to a man born in Virginia in 1708, 8 generations back. How about you?

 

[Rens]

My dad did that. Think til 1700 or so, I'll ask when we're there today. A Jewish plantation holder in Brazil married his slave. That's his grand grand grand mother or so. We have black Jewish family members, funny. Lol my dad was so busy with his family tree years ago and a teacher from his school (he was also a teacher) was called Bromet. So he walked up to him enthousiastically, saying: We must be family!! Bromet!!
The man looked at him if he was nuts, because he was black and my dad although he gets brownish in the summer, is as white as can be LOL.

 

[Lamb]

My dad is really big into genealogy. I don't know how many generations he was able to go back though. It gets rough once we get into Eastern Europe.

 

[Stravinsk]

Not far. I know who my grandfathers and grandmothers were and met all of them before they died.

German and Dutch descent. Apparently my surname has it's own crest or coat-of-arms, but it isn't well known.

 

[MarkFL]

Both of my paternal grandparents were deceased before i was born, so I never met them. I was pretty close to my maternal grandparents though, both were born in 1911 and passed away in the 90s. I met one relative in my great-grandparents generation, a great-great aunt who lived to be 103.

 

[tango]

My uncle traced the family tree back some centuries. It's harder once you go before proper records were kept because all you've got to go on is a lot of hearsay that's written down

 

[ImaginaryDay2]

A distant relative/cousin on my dad's side has traced my paternal lineage to the 13th century. It was all collected in a small book that my dad still has hold of, and stops around the 1950's or so. Scotch/Irish on his side. Dutch grandmother.
My mom's side is German and ...? My Great-Grandfather landed at Ellis Island in 1914 from Flensburg, Germany.