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

[Decius]

500 years on paternal line. and great grandparents on my mothers side.

So the 1500s, do you know what his name is

[greasycaveman]

So the 1500s, do you know what his name is

john parker II father who came from northern england i forgot his name. john parker III was a plantation owner.

[CertifiedCracker]

Earliest known ancestors:

Colonial American: My main line is Mennonite, but I cant recall the settlers name. He was Swiss and came in the early 1700s or late 1600s I think.

African: A captured Angolan in Jamestown

Middle Eastern side: Samuel (as in the prophet) and Muhammad (Through some Andalusian dynasty)

European: Ragnar Lodbrok (If I recall it was through some connection to an English king)

Amerindian: Hard one, though I’d say it was some member of the Powhatan or Piscataway tribe.

[Dick]

Some dude named Adam and his bitch called Eve.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Early 18th century through the census for the paternal line. Birth records and marriages for the local parish were destroyed in a fire at the turn of the 20th century.

[Rethel]

XIV/XV centuries whole family.
Direct personal pedegree XVI/XVII centuries.
Traces of family's history up to XII/XIII centuries.

Info for local idiots:
And when I say family, I mean one, the
family - not thousands unrelated families
of cognates and other distaffs.

[Bosniensis]

3rd century A.D

My family came from Montenegro, near a Montenegrin-Bosnian Border there is a graveyard of a Thraco-Illyrian possessing the same Name/Last Name as I have.

It's miracle that our Last Name survived almost 1700 years.

I have also found in 15th century (City Archives), 17th century etc...

This one is from 35 A.D. but also might be Zirić tribe:

[Rethel]

Anyone also cares to share the surnames in their family tree? Mine are these: Enyedi, Kókai, Mészáros, Kormos, Dudás, Antal, Müller, Nyúl, Tóth, Sili, Lajos, Zsíros, Messmer, Csontos, Linder, Apró, Hegedűs, Dékány. As seen, most of Hungarian and few of German origin. I have a few other surnames, but until I can't confirm that they were my direct ancestors, proven by documents, then I treat them with unclear status.

[Mikula]

Rethel, you are a patrilineal fundamentalist

[Rethel]

Rethel, you are a patrilineal fundamentalist

You know, when someone will constantly saying, that sun is green,
and you would constantly have to explain, that is not, day by day,
you would be a sun-yellow-fundamentalist. This is just amazing, that
I have to talk about it at all. I shouldn;t have to even use the term.

Look, at the guy who established the thread. He is asking about the tree,
but he is speaking about the grass... it is just unbearable stupidity. Why
to making a thread about Family Tree and then writing about the Table
of Ascendants? If it is not idiotism, then I don't know, what is...

He is even sugesting, that his family 18 times changed the name.

It is really so hard to write properly: "write how many people do you have
in your table of ascendants", or, "how old are they"? I would then not say
even a word, but eventualy I would post according to the topic.

Look even at the very simple themed threads about "your surname".
These morons are posting surnames of their grandmas, mothers, auts,
daughters, uncles, wives, daughters in law, greatgrandmas aso...
(figuratively exaggerately speaking).