Genealogy: How far back have you gone?

[FordSVT]

Not sure entirely, but my mother has done some pretty intense genealogy research for her DAR admission. All we know about my father's side is that they were very, very poor and immigrated from Ireland.

Perhaps I had an ancestor that one of your ancestors tried to overthrow?

 

[thestrangequark]

My mom is half Native American, so that part of my family probably arrived over an ice bridge thousands of years ago. My dad's half too, so the same for him.
On the white side of things, my mom's Norwegian great-grandmother came to America in the 19th century, moving straight to the Pacific Northwest. My dad's from New Orleans, and so is a jumble of French-Canadian-moved-south and some English and Irish mixed in. His cousin traced French relatives who arrived as early as the early 18th century, and the English relatives all the way back to an Englishwoman born in London, 1593. The unfortunate woman's name was Barbara Fricken Shmidt.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

My earliest documented ancestor was Flaithbheartach Ua'h-Anluain, Lord of Ui-Niallain, of the southern part of Ulster in Ireland. He was murdered in 983 AD. Another descendant is Donal O'Hanly, Bishop of Dublin from 1085 to 1096.

In actuality, my lineage goes back to Niall of the Nine Hostages, one of Ireland's most powerful kings, and the Three Collas, but that's pre-written history.

Yeah, a lot of murdering going on in my ancestry too, usually us getting murdered AFAIK. Right around the time there was a new king.
Must've been something in the mead

 

[auntiehill]

My mother, after some work, managed to trace my father's side of the family all the way back to the 1400s England. She insists we're somehow related to Henry IV, which is a bit silly, I think. From what I remember of Genetics class, if you go back 6 generations, you are pretty much related to everyone.

 

[Candlelight]

All my family ever seemed to do was shag. Having five kids looks like a small family compared to other branches I've seen.

Then again, it does get awfully cold near the moors...

 

[Mark de Vries]

On my mother's paternal side the line's been traced back to an ancestor in 1499, possibly somewhere in the Austrian Alps (locations seems unknown). By 1598 his descendants lived in Gossensass, Tyrol, which is now the village of Colle Isarco in northern Italy. By the mid-18th century they had moved in a northwesterly direction, to a village called Schonwies in Austria, and by 1818 they lived in Amsterdam. They soon started moving about a lot in the Netherlands, but the two generations before my grandfatehr made a living as fishermen on the North Sea.

It would be interesting to see the places where they lived.