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Post by Robin on Apr 21, 2014 19:16:19 GMT
It's the age old question in genealogy, how far back have you documented your tree? My oldest branch dates to around 1520, which is the approximate birth year of the grandfather of this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_CobbsSeveral other of my branches date to the 17th century and although I haven't confirmed it yet, if accurate, this dates my Rorer branch to the 16th century as well: www.stroux.org/Sp_f/stSp_f/S-RoS_f.pdf |
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Post by Ive on May 1, 2014 22:22:20 GMT
Nearly all of my branches trace back to the 18th Century. About half of those go back to the 17th. The numbers gets less and less the further back you trace.
The furthest line I've traced myself (as opposed to reading the work of others) is my Southcote line, in Winkleigh, Devon, that I can trace to the 1230s.
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Post by Robin on May 1, 2014 23:41:14 GMT
Wow, that must have taken some work!
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Post by Ive on May 2, 2014 18:12:11 GMT
I was lucky to have access to relevant medieval material (fortunately printed) at the time, plus a lot of time to read through it. Led to a few mistakes, but eventually got there.
Other lines I have link up with families that were members of the nobility, so their family lines have largely been done (although you can still find errors if you check the details).
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Post by Robin on May 7, 2014 16:48:18 GMT
Ah yeah, I wondered if you had noble or royal lines.
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Post by adelfio on Jan 23, 2015 21:42:22 GMT
I have gotten back to 1675 to my 6x great grandfather and grandmother everything I have done is backup by records from Trabia and Palermo
Fortunately I found the Adelfio family church in both towns through many letters to Italy researching after I found out from a priest the original church San Nicola di Kalsa in Sant Agata section of Palermo was destroyed in a earthquake in 1830 and the records were transferred to Santa Maria della PietÃ
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 8, 2021 18:30:30 GMT
Some time ago I passed that special spot where an ancestor married into a noble family. Data on that main line of ascent/descent faded into the mists just after that, but I had this very useful link via the marriage partner to a whole world of data relating to that extended noble family, and all the families they intermarried with. So many noble families have their genealogy established and on the Internet. At that point it becomes a matter of time and fortitude, and knowing what to trust and what not.
As one goes back in time, so the population diminishes, but, going back in time, the number of theoretical ancestors in each generation increases exponentially, and there comes a point the number of possible direct ancestors exceeds the population of Earth at the time.
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