In what year can you trace back your earliest ancestor being born

and where?

1612 in Haustruck, Upper Austria.

What year was Cromagnon Man born?

:evilgrin:

My great (insert multiple greats)Grandma Christiana Wentle

My mother is a geneaology nut, and she's spent untold hours finding this stuff. :)

for one pioneer (born somewhere in Germany).

Had a distant cousin look up another pioneer back to 1600's Germany, but by the time I answer the OP this thread will be on page 20.

it's those in-between generations I can't track down....

has traced ancestry back to the 1400s in England. My direct ancestors came to the US with William Penn's people.

John Sotcher and Mary Sotcher. :hi:

How cool. I'm very proud of my Quaker heritage. I had ancestors who were very active with the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad, as well. Sometimes I wonder if political leanings are genetic.

1516 in Augsburg, Southern Bavaria (But I'm not claiming to complete documentation)

in the early 1620's and then finally left during the reformation in Germany/Austria in the 1720s/1730's.

arrived in the colonies in 1732, settling in North Carolina.

find was they came in 1738 to Philadelphia and settled in the Redding PA area. My mom's side came to somewhere in North Carolina in the early 1700's.

supposedly his ancestors came to England from France in 1066, but no hard proof that far back.

This is based on a very detailed family tree my father's cousin has done. Some of it I know is accurate, some I am completely unsure, including the link from the Charles Young ancestor, who married Evelyn Hall who was a descendant of Ligon through her mother Martha Ligon.

Why do I have to keep clarifying this?

I have some unconfirmed data that puts my ancestors in Glamorganshire Wales in the 1400's.

When my ancestors fled Europe they covered their tracks behind them. In the sparsley populated American West you could make up any damned story about your ancestory, and they did.

There's a couple of cases of moms concieving children by men they hadn't met yet, or by husbands who were a thousand miles away at the time. My mom just told me recently who one of her biological grandfathers really was, and this information is not recorded in the LDS database.

Maybe the ancestry they claimed is more important than the reality... I don't know. It's fun doing the research, but I don't know what the meaning of it all is.

I'm apparently related to someone on my father's side who never married or had any recorded children. Fancy trick that.

500 A.D.

I'm supposedly descended from Mayflower voyagers also, but my WASPness is something I always found kind of dull.

I read the new book by Philbrick about the Mayflower recently. Kind of a little tingle to see one of your children's ancestor's mentioned, if only briefly. Good book too.

I wish. It's actually 1733 Prussia

...from Surrey, England.

He was born in 1587, and was the thrice the colonial governor of Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Yeardley

John O'Hart in his Irish Pedigrees 5th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), volume 1, pages 69 and 154, describes the Dal Cais, anglicized as Dalcassians, as being descendants from Olioll Olum and Sabh or Sabina, daughter of Conn of the Hundred Battles, and relict of MacNiadh. They had three sons: Eoghan Mor, Cormac Cas and Cian or Kian. According to the will of Olioll Olum, he made a regulation that the kingdom of Munster was to be ruled alternately by one of the posterity of the Eoghan Mor or Cormac Cas. This Cormac Cas was married to Oriund, daughter of the king of Denmark, and by her had a son named Mogha Corb. O'Hart in the pedigree of this family (pages 154-155) contradicts this statement, saying that Cormac Cas was married to Samer, daughter of Fionn MacCumhal, and that she was the mother of Mogha Corb, born in 167 A.D. According to this genealogy, his son was Fear Corb, born 198 A.D., whose son was Aeneas Tireach, born 232 A.D., whose son was Lughaidh Meann, born 286 A.D., who son was Conall Each-luath, born 312 A.D., who son was Cas from which the Dal Cais or Dalcassians descend. He was born in 347 A.D. and had twelve sons. To what extent these ancient pedigrees are accurate can only be determined by studying the procedures by which they were passed from generation to generation.


Family history has it that we were descendants of Cormac Cas, a 'king' (more likely chieftain) of Munster, the Head of the Dal Cais Sept to which my family group falls under and was descended from.

Richard the Lionheart, or so someone my aunt hired about 30 years ago said, or William the Conqueror, I can't remember which (in which case it'd be 1027/1028). Maybe it was the Lionhearted Conqueror? lol. Can't remember, I should dig out the book and pay attention to it. So, we're talking England.

Much easier to trace my mother's side to Mary Ball Washington, though; she was born in 1708.

Dad's side, no clue.

then it's via one of 2 illegitimate sons (http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=richard1) since he had no legitimate children. But if you can trace to him, then you can also trace back to William I, since he was Richard's great great grandfather. The marriages they made means you can also trace back to the Dukes of Normandy, Anglo-Saxon and Wessex kings, and Scottish kings. The Wessex kings are theoretically traceable to about 500 AD, though how reliable the earliest of those generations are may be open to question. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wessex_family_tree - Cerdic at the top, Henry I at the bottom.

Or that's what Mike Huckabee told me, anyway. :shrug:

My family has a record of a Thomas Totty who arrived in Virginia in 1640 as an indentured servant. He's the American progenitor of my mother's side of the family.

Ponce de Leon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n

1694, New Amsterdam, America

Mainier, Duke of Austrasia Count of Sens, died in 800. Through his wife we go back much further, but the earliest direct paternal ancestor with document back-up is Mainier.

A relative found the records in an old country church

I think that's what my genealogy loving dad told me. That far back and I'm not related to anyone cool or important. I guess that explains my dorky family.

This information is contained in family papers that a cousin in Luxembourg is going through. She's also researching church registries to find out how far back she can go. It's really interesting.

My great aunt gave me very thick genealogy (family tree), where she traced my mother's side to Eric the Red (when he was in Northern Ireland). I am a little skeptical, though, because it skipped about 500 years!

My mom has the official family tree, and it's over six feet long. There's Duncan, King of Scotland, murdered by Macbeth on it and a few others who are interesting.

On my dad's side, we don't know his dad's side all that far back. We do know that David Hilbert, the mathematician, is a cousin, but that's about it.

It's HARD to trace back Slaves.

older names are known but the info gets real sketchy and is often conflicted to some degree. Richard-Robert-Richard for like seven generations, also Thomas-John-Thomas-John for ten or more generations with no mention of wife's name anywhere. :crazy: