what year have you got back to

[jjq]

One line - Quarry- back to a birth in 1696. A couple of Suffolk lines back to the mid 1700's.


The rest of my family lines are well and truly stuck in the early 1800's. (and in London!!)

Jan

[Comosus]

I've got a few branches going back into the 1600s.  I do have an ancestor who died in 1613 but that wasn't my work.

Andrew

[Alan7636]

With the wifes side we have so far traced them back to 1670 but this was without any effort as they were from a Quaker family and they documented everything.

With my side so far I'm stuck on 1770 but this was at least all my own work. My family hardly ever talked let alone document anything but judging by the countless number of 'X marks the signature' on certificates I've obtained hardly any of them could read or write.

Alan

[Su]

My Dad's side beginning with a birth in 1629.

Mum's side before 1854 is a mystery. 

Su

[KathMc]

Su,

I am right where you are. I have one family where we supposedly have his parents name and where he was born, but we can't find the old guy where ever we look.  We have him from 1874 to 1900. I have been to the cemetery where his wife is buried and he isn't there. We have done a paid 3-county search around where he said he was born and we can't find him or his parents. We don't know when he died, when exactly he was born... I have asked my mom and one of her cousins (who has since died) who were his great-grandchildren and close to their grandfather (the lost one's son) and they didn't even know who the he** I was talking about.  Oh help help help.

Many other walls that I haven't even really started any work on, beyond their US roots. But this rascal's family supposedly had been in the US since the Revolutionary War period. It doesn't help that the name is Davis. Ugh!!

Kath

[subee]

1600's not all my work though, on my own back to 1750 still a fair way to go!! 

subee x

[Mobo]

 

The oldest known ancestor I can lay claim to is Nicholas EDGSON, b. 1520 in Langham, Rutland.  However, there are EDGESON's (and other name variants) living in the area, from as early as 1218

 

[kerryb]

It's great saying that I've got back to 1489 or whatever but what really interested me is finding a few of the spouse's families along the way. 

For instance my Harmer line which goes back to the 1400s is just every male and his spouse with no side branches.  That to me is not as interesting as my Pilbeam line which has loads of side branches coming off at different levels linking into lots of different local families.

Kerry

[wheeldon]

1760, using parish records on one line of my family, but I can't conclusively find the previous generation, so I'm not going to guess and have been going sideways instead.

I have now stopped trying to go back on my other lines and started to fill in the massive gaps that I have in the families that I do have.

It's allways a work in progress isn't it?  But I would like to be proud of the research that I have done as in the past I've tended to get too excited about how far back I can get and my tree has suffered in the process