How Many Generations Of Your Geneology Do You Know?

[Turtle]

No need to elaborate beyond the poll unless the mood strikes you.

[Pyrotex]

Woops.
I read that as "how many generations did I personally know".
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I only personally knew 2, but a cousin of mine did a geneology in the 80's and I think he pushed that back to either 4 or 5 generations.

[Boerseun]

The earliest I could track down (direct ancestor on my father's side), is a guy born in 1564 in Habsburg, Germany. I don't have the charts an' stuff with me right now, but at 25 years (+-) a generation, that should be around 17 generations.

From my mother's side, nada. Except my grandmother, who turned 92 today, and I still haven't phoned her!!!!!!!!!

[off to phone grandmother, feeling like a horse's ASS...]

[InfiniteNow]

Thanks to my paternal grandfather, who worked very hard before his passing, I have information of our family back just previous to Napolean... My own father then translated his papers into a database, which I kept when he passed.

[HappytheStripper]

Actually my mother has traced our family history .. back 253 generations .. Amazing eh ??

The power of technology has allowed for re-connections of families all over the world .. imagine where you could go ..??

Ashley

[Boerseun]

Originally Posted by HappytheStripper

Actually my mother has traced our family history .. back 253 generations .. Amazing eh ??

The power of technology has allowed for re-connections of families all over the world .. imagine where you could go ..??

Ashley

NO FUCKIN' WAAAAAY!!!!

That's like, close on 6,000 years! At 25 years a generation! What kinda records did your mother go on?!

[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

NO FUCKIN' WAAAAAY!!!!

That's like, close on 6,000 years! At 25 years a generation! What kinda records did your mother go on?!

You think that is far... I just finished an exhaustive search and found that Turtle and I are distanly related. This is going back on my Mother's side to a few years before Judism. A few generations before the migration to Europe. A few centries before the discovery of fire. A couple generations before walking upright. And just a couple of evolutionalry steps back toward the water.



I was not aware of my amphibian heritage, but I will now take very seriously any Anti-terrapinic remarks! The man can't keep the shelled down any more!!

Bill

[HappytheStripper]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

NO FUCKIN' WAAAAAY!!!!

That's like, close on 6,000 years! At 25 years a generation! What kinda records did your mother go on?!

She traced her descent back to the China at first .. from lil ole NZ .. and she came from scotland ..

I know I was amazed also and didnt believe her at first .. till she showed me .. she has made a lifetime of tracing our genetic trail .. she found people all over the world willing to send her information ..

Eventually she came across the mongolians .. in our family history ..

She used the principle that every man and woman can be traced back to the first 50 or so .. original people .. I'll go see my mom and ask her if I can print some of her work on here ..

She has written a text book for lecturers - it is used in studies in the Universities here and is a required reading .. only a teacher could write a book like that lol

I'll get back to you ..

Ashley

[Boerseun]

We're not talkin' about genetics!

We're talking 'bout your Dad being Fred, his dad being Stanley, his dad being George, his dad being Ed, etc.

Names! - on paper! That's the name o' the game!

Genetically, I can trace my roots back about a gajillion years!

I had too much to drink, and therefore will switch me PC off. As of now.

Good night one, good night all.

[Panjandrum]

Why go back only 9 generations? Thats only 200 years or so.