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 Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:52 pm
Rhoswen Super Goo I can trace my family fairly far back, at least on my father's side. I have a definitive family tree that goes as far back as the 1500's, and a family history that extends well before the fifth century Anglo-Saxon invasion of England. My family belonged to an influential Celtic clan who managed to keep some of their power after the Saxons and then the Normans took over Britain. They secured significant land holdings, noble titles, and - later - royal blood through Henry IV. (We don't have our land or titles anymore, but there's a town bearing my family name, and I have ancestors buried in Westminster Abbey.) In the 1500's one of my ancestors was exiled from Wales, presumably because of a botched assassination attempt. He settled in Scotland. His great, great grandson moved to the so-called "New World" in the mid-1600's. Various others moved after him, and I had ancestors in New York, Bermuda, and Barbados. (Of those who settled the two island nations, at least three were hanged for acts of piracy on the high seas.) Both sides of my family fought alongside the British in the French and Indian war, the colonists in the American Revolution and, later, on the Union side of the Civil War. They also fought in World War I and II. (My grandfather was on Oahu when Pearl Harbor was attacked.) Add in a Swedish Countess who fled her home to escape an arranged marriage, a handful of poor German farmers and a Danish sea captain with Viking ancestry, and you've got the basics of my family tree. smile Quiet a family history you've got there. xd That's barely scratching the surface. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:00 am
Super Goo Rhoswen Super Goo I can trace my family fairly far back, at least on my father's side. I have a definitive family tree that goes as far back as the 1500's, and a family history that extends well before the fifth century Anglo-Saxon invasion of England. My family belonged to an influential Celtic clan who managed to keep some of their power after the Saxons and then the Normans took over Britain. They secured significant land holdings, noble titles, and - later - royal blood through Henry IV. (We don't have our land or titles anymore, but there's a town bearing my family name, and I have ancestors buried in Westminster Abbey.) In the 1500's one of my ancestors was exiled from Wales, presumably because of a botched assassination attempt. He settled in Scotland. His great, great grandson moved to the so-called "New World" in the mid-1600's. Various others moved after him, and I had ancestors in New York, Bermuda, and Barbados. (Of those who settled the two island nations, at least three were hanged for acts of piracy on the high seas.) Both sides of my family fought alongside the British in the French and Indian war, the colonists in the American Revolution and, later, on the Union side of the Civil War. They also fought in World War I and II. (My grandfather was on Oahu when Pearl Harbor was attacked.) Add in a Swedish Countess who fled her home to escape an arranged marriage, a handful of poor German farmers and a Danish sea captain with Viking ancestry, and you've got the basics of my family tree. smile Quiet a family history you've got there. xd That's barely scratching the surface. biggrin Really? Would you mind telling me more? I'm very interested in Family History.
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:07 am
My Uncle did some work with our family history. Apparently he was able to trace us to King Edward III and somehow to Boadicea. That's my really British side.
However, I have ancestors on both sides that came on the Mayflower.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:56 pm
the farthest we gotten are my great grandma after that it's a blank all i know is that we came from england
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:15 pm
I don't personally keep a family tree and such, however one of the members or my father's family has done it. He has traced it back a respectable distance. I would guess around the late 1700's early 1800's.
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:15 pm
Your lucky, my father's parents came to the US just before WWI, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire most record are unavailable. My mothers family had been in Chicago for many years, but most of the early records were destroyed in the fire in 1871.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:02 pm
The farthest back I can track was Margrave Adalbert of Mainz, who died in 975. That's something I got to know just now trying to search Este on wikipedia =)
Most Famous ones would be Lucrezia d'Este (or Lucrezia Borgia) and Pope Alexander VI, on my fathers side.
I know little to nothing about my mother's side though.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:02 pm
Theres this one guy in Texas -US- that researched his whole family and two others that married into the other.
I'm not going to go into the whole detail about my family tree, but here are some basics.
European -
Julius Ceasar and Cleopatra - yes, that whole affair -
Charlamagne
Royal family of England - broke off in 1042 with whats his name? -
Noblity of both England and Ireland - Lords, Dukes, Earls, Barons -
American -
John Chapman - AKA Johnny Appleseed (He's my Great-great + Uncle)
Sam Burdank (?) - AKA Uncle Sam (role model)-(Married John's cousin)
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:24 pm
Sumus Pura Lux Theres this one guy in Texas -US- that researched his whole family and two others that married into the other.
I'm not going to go into the whole detail about my family tree, but here are some basics.
European -
Julius Ceasar and Cleopatra - yes, that whole affair -
Charlamagne
Royal family of England - broke off in 1042 with whats his name? -
Noblity of both England and Ireland - Lords, Dukes, Earls, Barons -
American -
John Chapman - AKA Johnny Appleseed (He's my Great-great + Uncle)
Sam Burdank (?) - AKA Uncle Sam (role model)-(Married John's cousin) I'm curious as to how you can be descended from Caesar and Cleopatra when their only child was assassinated at a young age. confused
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:35 pm
No clue. I was told this a long time ago.
But do understand that during those times marriages would occur at an extremely young age. Don't know if this is the case or what. I don't pay much attention to their history. Not interested.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:35 pm
Sumus Pura Lux No clue. I was told this a long time ago. But do understand that during those times marriages would occur at an extremely young age. Don't know if this is the case or what. I don't pay much attention to their history. Not interested. Caesarion was not married, and was not reputed to have any children. If he had, they likely would've gone the way of their father and been executed. Gauis Octavius (AKA Augustus Caesar, Julius Caesar's grand-nephew and legal heir) had him assassinated to clear out any obstacles that could've kept him from taking his place as the ruler of the Roman empire.
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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:00 am
Somebody on my mother's side of the family was working on their family tree before the WWll (before a lot of the German archives were destroyed) and apparently I'm distantly related to Handel the Baroque composer. I only say apparently as I've never seen this family tree as it's currently buried in a bank vault somewhere in Sweden ^_~
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