The farthest you can trace your geanoligy back

**PanzerJaeger** · 08-06-2005, 07:10

My father traced ours back all the way to the 1700s. Both sides of my family are Prussian in origin.

Apparently we had a very large family until the first half of the 20th century where the world wars took a bit of a tole on the clan. As a result, the "bloodline" is just starting to rebound and grow again after all the deaths.

**Kagemusha** · 08-06-2005, 08:14

My familys surname is a old Finish surname wich dates back to 1300´s.Its possibly much older but there are no documents prior christianity,to prove that.There is about 1800 people here in Finland with my surname and they are all related to eachother at somepoint of their family history.

**Silver Rusher** · 08-06-2005, 09:42

I think the farthest I can trace my name is to 1707 or something like that. A man named Samuel B******(like I'm going to tell you my surname)

**edyzmedieval** · 08-06-2005, 09:42

Well,

From my mother, her great grandmother(my great great grandmother) comes from the family, whom which the man, wrote the National Hymn of Romania. I'm kinda proud of that, plus the fact that my grandmother was from an aristocratic family, and my grandpa is a WWII veteran.

From my dad, I don't know

**Sjakihata** · 08-06-2005, 10:21

on my farthers side im related to Musashi and my mothers side im related to Achilles.

Go me!

**Ironside** · 08-06-2005, 10:35

On my father's side, I can trace my grandfather's line back to around 1650. It was one of the immigrating Valonians (sp?). My grandmother's line is traced to about 1680, but here it was a Swedish peasant.

My mother's line is more shrouded in darkness, but the family name can be traced back to atleast 1699 in Sweden. It appears to be German, but not 100% certain on that one. It could be Polish too.

No known famous relatives though, but one with my mother's last name was a good friend with Copernicus

**Dâriûsh** · 08-06-2005, 10:35

Allegedly my family has been living in the same region of Iran for centuries. Despite a few local references and legends, there is not much to tell.

**Spartakus** · 08-06-2005, 18:52

Originally Posted by PanzerJager

My father traced ours back all the way to the 1700s. Both sides of my family are Prussian in origin.

Apparently we had a very large family until the first half of the 20th century where the world wars took a bit of a tole on the clan. As a result, the "bloodline" is just starting to rebound and grow again after all the deaths.

A fellow Prussian.

I too have Prussian ancestors on my father's side. A relative of mine who's into genealogy has traced our ancestors back to a certain Andreas Cnophenius, born 1480 in Cistrin and died 1522 in Riga. He was of a priestly family from eastern Prussia (in what is today Poland), where he made his living as a school headmaster. Interestingly, he was also a personal friend of Martin Luther.

He's the farthest back we've been able to trace our lineage, before him the records fail us, I'm afraid.

As for being notable, I can mention Andreas' great-nephew, Hieronymus Christopher (1535-1611), who was court priest for Dorothea, the widowed Queen of Denmark..