How far back can you trace your ancestors?

[wvwvw]

1400s.

If you're Pontic Greek as you claim and you can trace your ancestors as far back as 1400 (yeah right! ) you should take a DNA test.

[Pontios]

If you're Pontic Greek as you claim and you can trace your ancestors as far back as 1400 (yeah right! ) you should take a DNA test.

Almost every Pontian from Pontus or that area in general can trace their ancestors for hundreds of years... It's nothing new... My ancestors weren't refugees in Greece in the 1920s...

[StonyArabia]

I can trace my maternal ancestry all the way really to the 13th century. I can not trace the ancestry of paternal lineage that far and many of the records were destroyed by the Russians, so most of it was based on oral stories sadly.

[Equilibrium]

20th century..

[Ice]

I can only go back to 1860. If i believe the oral stories I go back to the 1600ies.

1400s.

Komenos or Palaiologos

[Jackson]

Most of them, the early-mid 19th century. So enough to tell where the families were from and what they did, as a number of them went on the move to cities or towns...and met other people who had done the same thing for the most part. So a lot of my ancestry is from groups of rural people who moved to the city, married into other families who had done the same, and then moved on again a generation or two later. The earliest any line of mine goes is a Norman connection via Cheshire, goes back to John le Belward in the 1080s. Another older one is on my mother's mother's line, going back to Kent in the 17th century. Most of the rest are 1800+ as far as i can recall.

[Smaug]

1870's on my mother's side and 1880's on my father's side.

[curupira]

Are you related to any famous Arab clan?

I can trace my maternal ancestry all the way really to the 13th century. I can not trace the ancestry of paternal lineage that far and many of the records were destroyed by the Russians, so most of it was based on oral stories sadly.

[StonyArabia]

Are you related to any famous Arab clan?

Yes my mom is from this House, the House Al-Rashid

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

our independent state

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

The Emirate of Jabal Shammar was finally terminated with the Saudi campaign of late 1921. The Emirate surrendered to Saudis on November 2, 1921, and was subsequently incorporated into the Sultanate of Nejd. Today many of the Jebalis of the Shammar live in Syria and Iraq due to the exile commanded by the Sauds and British.

[Dandelion]

Early 20th century.