How far back can you trace your ancestry?

all the way back to 1115 on my dads side.

Well I know who my Mom is-I think!!

"Without meaning to be disrespectful or insincere; I assure you I am not."
My limited research of my ancestors indicates that they are all dead, a fact I find less than reassuring.

1870`s on dad side-1883 moms so far

At least to a guy who got off the boat in time to grab a gun and fight in the American Revolution.

I can't really, my dad's adopted and doesn't know who his biological parents are.

My family's ancestry has been traced back to the reign of Charles the Great (Charlemange), the first Holy Roman Emperor in the 9th century. Yes, the 9h century - some 1200 years ago. European ancestries are much easier to trace if you're descending from nobility and/or royality. However interesting that may be, it does not make one superior to other people.

i know my great great great great grand pa rode with butch Cassady and the sun-dance kid

Hi fellow Welshman (on my mother's side). I bogged down once I reached the 16th century. Europe just had too many wars and too many parish record have been destroyed. Now, I am resigned to filling out the branches.

My mom's father's side we traced all the back to my 11th great-grandfather. It was his son, my 10th great-grandfather who was the immigrant ancestor from England in 1634. We haven't done much on my mom's mother's side. On my father's side, only back to the immigrant ancestors in the 1840's from Wales & Germany.

My dad did a family lineage and traced records back to 15th century Spain and found we are decedents of the Moors who built most of Iberia.

I have almost all my lines back to the 1600's some earlier and a few later. I was really obsessed for a long time and I've done so many other families from friends. I've traced a black friend's family and it was most interesting. What I had to do with his was to trace the white family that owned his ancestors along with his family. It's pretty subjective but interesting. My granddaughter is bi-racial but her father is from the Bahamas and it's just about impossible to trace his family. So many of them weren't married and they don't know much about their families. My husband's family goes back to Wales...Castle Walwyn.

Oh, the second part. My husband is related to Henry Hudson the Explorer on both his mother's and his father's side which is really strange because they come from very different parts of the country. I'm related to some very early settlers and the only interesting story is one of my ancestors was commissioned to build a log wall across Manhattan to keep the Indians out when it was Dutch. That's where Wall Street is today.

Far enough

To Dragging Canoe (Cherokee) and then his parents also had some of the Canadian Native Americans for ancestors. about 8 or so generations back

Good luck! Genealogical research is time consuming but it is also very rewarding.

Past the American revolution.

Back to my 6th great grandfather