have you traced your family tree?

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 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 don't think there is a famous person ANYWHERE in my family. I know a good bit about my dad's family up until WWII. After that the trail gets cold. Although it was a very uncommon last name and I've found two semi well known (can't quite say famous) people in Austria today with that name. My mom's family name is pretty common and I would think there are many millions with that name in the US. Still I might be able to lie a little fame into the family cause my mom's maiden name was Taylor and her entire family had dark hair and very blue eyes. Maybe I could claim Liz or Robert even though I know there is no connection whatsoever. lol

No. My family tree has mercenaries and farmers. Some people's trees are full of criminals. We've got priests and nuns in there, too, but they didn't have any kids that we know of. We traced 1/4 to the mercenary hired to go to Canada to kill Indians. I don't think that's anything to be proud of. I don't know what the other 3/4 were. We have Acadians persecuted by the English in 1/4 that people tell me about, but I haven't see the tree or the documentation. So we have one group persecuting others and another group being persecuted so far. Doesn't make me want to run right out a do a tree. My husband keeps finding criminals on his tree. He's the most law abiding man I know and my immediate family lived with and loved Native Americans for a few years until laws changed and said we had to leave. My brothers were persecuted in school until they hit puberty and beat the crap out of the people that had beaten them. So far, not much I'm proud of on the tree. My Grandmother had been a school teacher, but she had to quit doing that to be a wife. Most of the women were wives unless they were nuns. It's not until this generation, as far as we can tell, where the women did anything besides wives and mothers or nuns. Sorry, but some family trees are boring and some are upsetting. We can't all be Kings and Queens, some people were peasants.

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.

Actually, both sides of my family have members who have done quite a bit of research on our geneology. On my mom's side of the family we do have an outlaw. He rode with the Jesse James gang, and his name was Black Jack Ketchum. There are some really interesting tidbits on that side of the family. On my dad's side of the family I don't know if I WANT to know more. I don't particularly like where his father's family came from. The country they came from had and has NOTHING to do with the character of his family then or now, but it just doesn't make me feel good. We have an Indian Chief in my dad's side of the family, but that was on his mother's side.

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..

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'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.

One day while my great-grandfather was still alive he told me about his parents and hís grandparents and I wrote down the names that he mentioned. I know the names of my great-grandfather's parents and his grandparents and the names of my great-grandmother's parents, but he couldn't tell me anything about his own great-grandparents as he has never met any of them. I am happy that we had this conversation while we still had the chance. I haven't actually made a family tree, but I have written everything down, so that I don't forget the names.

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

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 .

offcourse i will trace my family tree...there nothing to say no...abt it its my family n they give me a lot of luv so .......