How far back have you traced your family tree?
 

http://www.piratesinfo.com/biography...?article_id=37

My relative several generations back.

"Barataria lies on the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles south of New Orleans. It was home to buccaneers and fishermen, but Jean Laffite organized them into a company of privateers and smugglers. He built a house, cottages, warehouses, barracoons (stockades that held slaves awaiting auction), a cafe, gambling den, and brothel."

Gambling and sex run in the family. Cheers Jean

http://www.cindyvallar.com/jeanlaffite.html

My family name come from England on the mayflower.

http://www.piratesstore.com/images/s..._babe15406.jpg

that looks like my great great grand mother

<---- direct descendent of William Penn

i love that quote form the simpsons- "he can trace his family history all the way back to when the anglos first met the saxons"

I'm fairly sure that my ancestors were amoebas that were swimming around in some warm pond water somewhere.

I still haven't figured out who my parent are!:Graucho

dont know about the in bewtween parts
but apparently it starts with Adam & Eve :glugglug

You have cause for concern only if your family tree is a circle

But ma, pa, and sis sayz thats ah normal round here.

I think one of my aunts traced my family back to Adam and Eve. :helpme


:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yeah! Adam and Eve. Either that's bullshit or we're all inbreds. Which is it?

my father told me the oldest trace back has been to being related to an illegitimate son of William the Conqueror...

apparently he liked to fight and fuck around...

Hrm I downloaded this tool from onegreatfamily.com and after some playing around in it ended up all the way back to

Sir Robert de Hibburne of Newton
B: 1232

Along the way though there is:

James Hepburn
B: 1536
Spynie castle, Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland

D: 14 april 1578
Gragsholm castle, Denmark in exile

In exile sounds pretty cool....googling for that dude I find its because he had some affair and then married a chick named Mary Queen of Scots.

I hope she was hot :winkwink:

Now this prob isnt really my family tree, these things are never accurate for non-americans...but interesting anyhow

Hot stuff, i'd hit your granny :Graucho

my great aunt or something did a family history of my mom's side of the family. Traced back all the way to like 1450 or so... all in north america.

Crazy

If I had to choose...I'd say both. :1orglaugh


I do wish I had a great uncle that was a pirate or something. :)

You read GFY and you need to ask? :1orglaugh

One of my great-grandfathers was mormon and had 3 wives. The mormons also traced that branch of the family back to the 1400's in northern Italy and England.

I have traced my tree back 5 or 6 generations from memory. I have a few famous relatives. But that's less important than my current family! :thumbsup

Farthest we've been able to go with the same spelling f the last name is 1667. Virginia. But there are several variations on my last name that can be traced to the 13th and 14th century England and Scotland

My great great great great uncle was Doctor David Livingstone!

ive traced them back as far as "ive met you so i know yer family" i don't really care about my family tree since i can't stand 90% of my whacked ass family anyway.

I once traced it back to where my family was the rulers of a section of ireland in the 1400 or so...

I went back about 500 years. Its very hard to go past that because official birth records for anyone besides royalty just aren't out there to find and probably never even existed to begin with.

My ex, "Vail" is quite the amateur genealogist. My family tree goes back to ancient Rome, viking Norway, and a few other interesting places. The main reason is that for centuries, nobles have ben keeping track of their family trees. Make it back to any of them (which almost anyone can do) and you suddenly have your family tree explode back to dozens of royals and their ancestors.

hey look it's gothweb. wondered what happened to you.

150 or so years is where mine drops off. I think we had alot of outlaws and criminals before that period that didnt want to be known.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yeh, yeh we know. http://www.royalty-magazine.com/

:thumbsup

about 200 years or so...not too many generations, but enough to be proud on :winkwink:

back to the tree my family was hung from

<-- direct descendant of the 3rd Baron de la Warre, Sir Thomas West for whom the state, river, and American Indian tribe "Delaware" was named.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...de%20la%20Warr

i haven't really trace my family tree that far. all i know is that i have spanish and chinese ancestors...:)

Only back to 1775 so far.

Only famous or infamous relative is Johnny Cash.

I got as far back as the 1600's.

A bunch of European intellectuals, aristocrats and businessmen on one side.

A pile of dung on the other side: alcoholics, murderers, a schizophrenic Native Indian, and basically the type of people who shouldn't be allowed to procreate.