Genealogy tree! How many generation from your family do you know?

I know many of many generations back I have not really seen pictures of them. But I have met many of my cousins and great aunts and uncles. I have been told we have German, Caucasian, African American, American Indian. I am thinking that there is Italian as well, but I have not been able to trace back to that.

I was curious after I searched about my great-grandfather or great-grandmother but did not find it. From generation to generation, they are only in writing the name and if too many of them descendants of the names will be deleted. I think that my ancestors came from all over the world that I do not know exactly where they live.

I just know only the three generations of my family.I always feel sad with inadequate information.

Once my mother started working on a genealogy tree, she went back up to three generations from my father's side and five from her side...it's nice to look at and think about the people who have lived before...but I find it sad, for most of those people nobody even knows where they are buried, they're just names on a piece of paper, nothing else. I find it sad.

Yes, I'm very interested but my parents don't bother to tell it to me. It seems that they don't want such topic... maybe because they were hiding so many things. haha! Anyway, do you know other ways to find it out?

yup, because I only know my great grand parents from both sides. They were both born in Phillipines, though I speculate they (all of them) are of Spanish or Japanese. I don't even remember what my great grang fathers look like!!

Four generations of my mother's family came from Odense Denmark, and on her side my sister and I are first generation Canadian, but many generations on my Dad's side are Canadian, so on that side we're Canadian for generations. They have some Scottish and Irish in them back there somewhere. I know the birth names of all of my parents and their parents on both sides and where they are from, back about five generations.

I know the branches of my family tree up to my grandparents. They're the ones that I've ever seen. This life is too short for me to care about the further ancestors that I even feel that the sentimental link between them and me turns loose. But one day, when I think of getting married, I will check the genealogy tree for more details, because according to the law as well as to the tradition, it's forbidden to marry among the same family up to the fifth generation.

I have followed my family tree back to the early 17th century. I'm not sure how many generations that is, but it must be in the region of 15 or 20. They never moved very much in all that time, and in fact I now live in the same place as my ancestors did for most of the last 400 years. Though that is just a coincidence because I have moved around quite a lot over the years and I might have settled anywhere but where I am now.

We just created our family genealogy tree at www.geni.com. We have been able to erect around 5 generations of people in that tree. It is a work in progress though as many more people are slowly adding more members to their portion of the tree. Cheers! Ram

I have been doing genealogy since I was 16. My father's family on his mother's side has been traced back to the early 1600's in Ireland. I have traced his dad's family back to my great great grandfather, but a lot of the records from that time period were burned when the old courthouses burned. Ya never know what you'll dig up when you start researching family history, it's interesting and fun.

icesmile hi oh yes indeed my gr gr gr grandfather Andrew Clark was born in Derry Ireland and stayed there and raised one son thomas Clark my gr gr grandfather who immigrated to America and landed in Kentucky in the 1770's and raised 7 children,one of whom was my gr grandfather James Clark. James Clark moved to Indiana where He met ElizbethLadd and married her and they had my grandfather Thomas C clark. Thomas C clark had seven kids too one of whom was my father Oscar H Clark. Elizabeth Ladd, I have her parents and gr gr gr gr gr gr grandfather John Ladd the Immigrant who married Bathsheba Lovett, bathsheba was once accused of witchcraft but was saved by some big shot in the church. this was in the 1400's. yes I think we should know who were our forbears as its r eally exciting and interesting to know our beginnings.

Well I know where my grandparents and all of my acestors came from on my mother's side. My grandparents came here from Italy and everyone before them was from Italy, so there is no mistaking that blood line on my fathers side however there is a great deal of question, someone actually did a history on our family the best they could and it appears there was once some English royalty in the line somewhere but then someone was a Viking and Scandanavia is in there somewhere. It is quite a mixed bag of nationalities mixed in there and it gets really confusing. So I will just say my roots on my fathers side are largely European where in Europe exactly is not determinable.