How old is your family tree?

We all live our lives and sometimes ask our parents or grandparents about their parents and grandparents and the history of how it came to be. There are many people who know their tree very well, some well over 300 years or more, and they keep a good record of it too.

My story:



So how old is your family? You may also tell the community a little bit about your lineage.

That is why my goal is to be known, so I can round all of my unknown relatives up and have a nice family reunion, and also learn further story of our ancestors. ( Our selfish ancestors )

My dads grandfather came from Austria, so both him and his dad were born here. My mom came to America from haiti. She has 9 brothers and 9 sisters(or something close to that), so my family tree on that side of the family is rather..expansive

I have little knowledge about my family tree and my mum has limited knowledge. All I know from her is that her dad (that is, my grandad)'s dad apparently originated from Germany, when he migrated over here for whatever reason. He had a kid - my grandad - while in the U.K and he had 4 kids (including my mum) with my grandma in my hometown. 1 of those adopted two kids as his wife is infertile. My mum had my half brother 10 years before I was born and then me with someone else. The other 2, one's single because he's a cunt and the other one married over 10 years ago but chose not to have kids yet, mostly 'cause right now she has Sciatica.

The only thing I know about my dad is that he lived in Essex at one point, in Colchester. I've asked him about his side of the family and all I know is that his side is pretty damn huge, otherwise what he tells me isn't in a positive light due to him feuding with his brother over money. His sister - my aunt - lives in Canada. I have a cousin called James who is apparently a criminal but I don't tend to believe what my dad says nowadays, and I have two of my dad's-side family on Fagbook, a woman in her 40's named Wendy married to my dad's brother and the other is my Second Cousin who I think was his illegitimate child. I think she's either pregnant, or had a kid. I dunno. Can't check though 'cause she deactivated it.

Although it doesn't directly relate to my family tree, I did look into the origin of my surname; apparently it's an Anglo-Saxon name and originates from either Boxhulle in Sussex or Boxwell in Gloucester, places where the original owners of the surname resided.

I never got around to asking my family how long the lineage is. So it was kind of embarrassing to show those family tree projects when I was little. All I know is from my mothers side; my grandmother and her grandmother lived here in our country. I don't know if her grandmother had any other siblings so that's as far as I know. I have no idea about my "father" side and I don't really care.

I should probably start making a lineage.

There is a family tree online for one of my mom's ancestors going back to late 18th century.

in my case i have tried to learn about my family however both of my grandparents are dead on my moms side and i dont know anybody on my fathers side.But i do know my family is from both Guatemala and EL salvador so there is a good chance that at we have some Spanish blood in us and a good chance we could be Mayan and or another indigenous people and to further prove this back in hs on standardized test in the race section i have 2 letters ther w(hite) and I(ndigenous)but to find out more maybe some genetic dna test idk but if i had to guess my family has history that goes as far as 400 years ago

My entire family tree is unknown and once I die, that's the end of it.

What, no plans on kids?

Mother's side
My grandmother's grandmother were neighbors with my grandfather's grandmother before they traveled to Norway.

Father's side
My father's grandfather had 18 kids. My grandfather then continued the 'tradition' and had 13 kids (with different women). In fact I got a new uncle this October and the old man is 68 with his new 26 year old flipflop wife. And another fun fact my grandfather only know 4 of the 18 children his dad had.

In Iceland your surname is your father's name plus a "son/dóttír". Let's say your name is Magnus and you get a son he would get the surname "Magnusson" but if you get a dotter then it would be "Magnusdóttír" instead. So it's hard to search for your family tree.

I wish to continue the tradition....

We have an old coat of arms from the middle ages that mentions our family so I guess its pretty old.

I can't actually trace it back very far, but there is a village with part of my family name a few kilometers away.
That must say something, eh ?

I'm not super into all this myself, but I have an aunt who's crazy about it. On my mom's side we are VERY, very, very French. I'm the first to live anywhere else.....ever. They are, to my knowledge, relatively well off and slighly "noble." Nothing to fancy, but they were Chevaliers once. We all have absurdly long names too. Mine, without last name is Lillian Marie Amelie INSERT LAST NAME HERE. Dad's a brit. That's all I know.

I believe my mother once told me that my family tree is over 100 years old or something like that. I don't really do too much research on it cause I don't really care about my family like that.

The positive side from learning your family tree, is learning from what the past did to come to this point in time, which is you.

I learned from the story of my families history is that ignorance, selfishness, and also not working together, can cause great damage to the family and possibly ruin the generations that come after you.

So it's not like you should care about your family but it is good to learn from them and also ask yourself why you don't care. ( food for though )

This is why learning where you come from is important, it can save you and your life.

I have seen countless families torn apart because of not caring, and why they never show interests as to how they ended up like this, usually the present behaviors cana be traced back to the past.

So yeah, got yourself a rep.

Besides my immediate family (very selective on it too) and grandparents, I don't really care, I'll just make a "new origin" seeing how I'm not really welcome on either.

Mom's side is from Catalonia then move to Arkansas in 1934 to get away from Franco. After the war some moved back to france and Andorra. My grandfather Fought in ww2 and married my grandmother then came back to the hill country after 1947. Then my uncles and aunts were born they move to California when mom's was born. I was born in Andorra then back to cali. Before that who know in all honesty since most of my family were farmers and traders.

Dad's side been here since texas and California was spain. They don't know anything b past that except our last name is a town in castile and something about Iberia. There mexicans.

Had my family name traced back to 1079 A.D. Almost a thousand years. Now I feel old for some reason.

My family originated from South Korea, not sure about my mum's side but my dad has a book (it even contains some of the first generation's grave sites and a few later gen's portraits of some of the family heads) of the entire family tree starting around 105 AD. The first gen family came from China, the family head was some sort of minister or merchant. Me and my dad will probably need to update the book to get my generation on it.

I dunno too much, other than my Grandpa served as a translator in the Korean War and that soon he moved to California when my dad was a teen I belive. My dad grew up with listening to classic rock and whatnot, but he still doesn't understand English very well.

However the Kim lastname is like 40% of all Koreans so take that for what it's worth.