How far back in time have you managed to trace your family tree?

[Bobby Martnen]

@certifiedcracker come on dude you don't have a legit tree going back to Samuel, no one does.

I have a legit tree going back to the late 1400s.

[Profileid]

Early 1600s. Somerset,England.
The further you go back,the less accurate it gets. You have adoptions, errors,women lying about paternity,etc.

[Longbowman]

I have a legit tree going back to the late 1400s.

So do I but Samuel died in the 11th century BC.

[Bobby Martnen]

So do I but Samuel died in the 11th century BC.

Well maybe one day we will find genealogy records for the Early Middle Ages going back to Antiquity.

[Longbowman]

Well maybe one day we will find genealogy records for the Early Middle Ages going back to Antiquity.

Maybe, but CertifiedCracker doesn't have any.

[Larali]

There was some ridiculous thing.... OneWorldTree... a while back that cobbled together everybody's contributions to make one massive family tree. It went back to Adam and Eve, I kid you not. Of course it was not legit, but it was fun to rifle through.

There was a Jewish branch somewhere way back on my tree, so I followed it back as far as it would go. Sure was interesting

[Gwydion]

My direct paternal ancestors unfortunately are a tough nut to crack, I only have them traced back to 1745 Scotland.

Most of the lines on my tree are traced to the 1600s at least, though a few I am stuck in the 1800s.

A smaller few, due to connection to medieval nobility (for example the Woodhull family of Northamptonshire), I have traced back to Charlemagne and beyond, though who can tell how accurate the earlier medieval genealogies truly are.

[Livin]

Middle Ages!!!

[redeyednewt]

@certifiedcracker come on dude you don't have a legit tree going back to Samuel, no one does.

Heh true, nobody has been able to trace back this far or close to that era. It's why I laugh when on facebook I see people who claim they are related to Adam and Eve, or people in the Bible/Torah, etc.

[Graham]

Early 1600s. Somerset,England.
The further you go back,the less accurate it gets. You have adoptions, errors,women lying about paternity,etc.

Whereabout? I'm living in Somerset the now.

Some of my lines are total bollocks, being a peasant.

My direct paternal ancestors unfortunately are a tough nut to crack, I only have them traced back to 1745 Scotland.

Most of the lines on my tree are traced to the 1600s at least, though a few I am stuck in the 1800s.

A smaller few, due to connection to medieval nobility (for example the Woodhull family of Northamptonshire), I have traced back to Charlemagne and beyond, though who can tell how accurate the earlier medieval genealogies truly are.

1745, around the time of Culloden and jacobite rebellion. Interesting period that.