have you traced your family tree?  

My mother was into geneaology. No one famous was found in her family tree, though. One thief was, though. LOL And, she grew up thinking her maiden name was Scottish only to find out it was English.

My grandmother on my father's side used to love bragging that she was like third cousin to Richard Nixon. That's not something I'd want to brag about! LOL Anyway, knowing that it's a possibility that I'm related to Richard Nixon, I'd rather not try to verify it.

I know that my ancestors came from England, Germany, Ireland and France. It proves that I'm a mutt. That's enough for me, thanks.

Years ago my cousin traced our family tree on my paternal grandmother's side back to King Edward VI...but I don't have any cool royal heirlooms to sell on Ebay so I'm not impressed. Recently I started tracing my husband's family tree on his father's side. His grandfather came to the U.S. from Italy as a teen but he wants to know what came before Ellis Island and if he has any relatives over there.

I've traced my tree back to England in the mid 1800's...that's as far as I've gone.

The only famous one is me, and I am only famous here, so...

I traced my dad's side of my family tree all the way back to the mid 1500's. I have ancestors from England, Wales, Austria, Holland, the Netherlands, and Poland, just to name some. I found out that I'm distantly related to the author John Updike- we each descended from one of a pair of twin brothers who lived in the 1700's. So far, I have not been able to trace my mother's side of the family tree, but it'd be interesting to find out what's there.

I haven't traced it that far back. I have one side back to 1832 and my Aunt has a tree that goes back to the 1700's (need to get copies)...

I did cher...and you should see the "ape" I am related to. LOL! Sorry, cher..just in one of those moods this morning, and this really is a good topic!

I have wanted to do just that, and know people that are totally ensconcsed in doing so. I admire them, the time and tenacity they are putting into the project, it is one of those things that are on my "bucket list" but never seem to have time to do so....or maybe I don't want to know the truth and find that I am related to someone nefarious, rather than famous. Now...you have tweaked me again..I really shud get on with it, if only for my son's sake. Take care...and Cheers!

I have never gotten my family tree traced but i know from where we have decended
We have a system where we have to remember the "Gotra"

Thats a term for our forefathers , so we know which Sage we have desended from,

but i will certainly like to have mine traced to know few more details ,
but i dont belevie in their methods..

no i have not tried it and i dont know anyone mostly before my grand parents . but i hear the names of some of them when my parents used to speak about their grand parents and i cant remember it . but its always niece to know about these things . of course its the history of our family . but what i do i dont have interest and source to know about it .

Yes, we do. I my culture. Some families are really serious about tracing the family tree. In some family, they even force people to take name for the new born baby according to the family tree so they cannot pick any name they like in this case

I've done this using Tribal Pages to do my family tree on for the actual names and dates and what not. I've been able to go back as far as one of my grandparents on my father's side to the 1630s.

Some of the interesting things I discovered was that my first known ancestor to live in America was a French Huguenot, someone who belonged to the Protestant Reformed Church of France, aka a Calvinist (the belief system that holds that humans are incapable of adding anything to obtain salvation and that God alone is the initiator at every stage of salvation—including the formation of faith and every decision to follow Christ).

He moved to America from France with his wife in 1700 due to being persecuted by the Catholic Church of the time and first settled in Virginia until his descendants started spreading all over the southern United States. One of my paternal side grandmothers (can't remember how far back) was from Ireland.

I was able to find out that I've had relatives/ancestors to fight in every (or very nearly, if not) war America has ever been in, up to the Vietnam War. I don't know anything about beyond that. I even had relatives/ancestors who were Confederates during the American Civil War.

I'm not sure but I'm potentially related to Presidents George HW and W. Bush.

Oddly enough, I haven't been able to find very much information when it comes to my mother's side.