How far back can you trace your ancestors?

[Rædwald]

1743 on my Paternal side. I haven't done much research on my Maternal side.

[Rudel]

1/4 of my ancestry is in Lorraine, and here I have a problem, cause of the Thirty Year war that was an atrocious chaos. Lots of people were killed or had to flee their villages without being recorded. Many records prior to 1640 disappeared, the majority of parishes became fully depopulated at some point, it seems they recovered only in the years 1660 to 1680. Hence a number of uncertainties .

I do have the same problem for some of my ancestors, though I tracked a number of them after they went to... Franche-Comté.

[Vojnik]

With little research I have traced my paternal side of the family going back to the late 1700's from the mountain regions of today's northern Greece. But I believe I could go deeper if I tried harder, which I will one day.

[Stefan_Dusan]

Per family legend, oral tradition, and tree, we ultimately trace to 1292 to a man named Milosh. I however am trying to trace even before this even though obvious records in this time frame are hard if not impossible to find. One key I have is my very very rare and old (one of the oldest in Europe) haplogroups, clean I2.

This is all paternal obviously. As much as it's weird to say, I'm not so much interested on my mother's side. This is cultural but whatever.

[dude]

1700's

[Luovatus]

For sure back in the late 1500´s. The churchbooks earlier than that were lost in wars with Swedes and Russians

[Mazik]

Only to the 19th century.

[Linebacker]

To 1944.Reason is the dirty commies burned all the archives when they made the coup.

[Stefan_Dusan]

To 1944.Reason is the dirty commies burned all the archives when they made the coup.

No one ever asked your grandparents who their parents were? I find this so weird, one should be able to go back at least 4-6 generations just from memory alone.

[Xanthias]

more than 800 years