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I've been working with my father on our family tree, and just tonight we managed to get a whole lot of stuff done. The furthest back we have traced is my great great great great great great great great great grandfather Edmund Weston, born in 1606, who travelled over to America from England on the "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635.

Do you maintain a family tree? If so, what's the farthest back you've gotten? Is there anyone famous you're related to? :3

To answer the third question, I believe one of the Westons married a female relation of Miles Standish. biggrin Aside from that, I have a lot more investigating to do...

As a heinze 57 it's sort of hard getting a family tree up.

Maybe on my dads side I could, since they'res only polish-jewish and egyptian. I'm not sure there would be a lot of interesting facts on them. Except for my grandfathers escape from Poland and joining the british army by changing his name.

wish I had one. I have an idea who some of my ancestors are, but nothing really firm...

If you like one all you need to do is start with your self. I recommend reading Idiots Guide to Genealogy as a starting point. Excellent book for those beginning. The best part of genealogy that I find that you can always go back to it after a long period of time. xd

I've been meaning to look further into it; a great-aunt of mine has tracked it back to the 1600's. 3nodding

Well, we've traced four lines of my family back to Europe . . to Moffat Wells, Scotland, England (Puritans), and Hannover, Ellerstadt, and Zweibrucken in Germany, all of whom came to America in the 1600s. I also discovered that I'm a distant cousin of President Herbert Hoover. xd

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