Thread 17928242

Who's your earliest known ancestor? Only people you're directly related to count not some random hearsay. For me it's a Protestant German farmer, by the name of Hans, who immigrated to America in the 1750's. He's my father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father.

Family tree goes back to some swedish cunt in the mid 1600's on my mothers side and trace relations back to the 1500's.
Nobody noteworthy.

>>17928242 (OP)
regarding biological ancestors, I'd just like to remind everyone that the same way your biological ancestor is some dude from the neolithic, not only australopithecus but australopithecus's ancient monkey grandpa is just the same our biological ancestor. since nobody cares about that sort of ancestor, what makes a neolithic one somehow relevant? biology is biology after all. if it's a cultural thing, shouldn't our ancestors be cultural regardless of biology? or does it have to be both?

>>17928242 (OP)
I dont know. And I dont care because I never plan to have kids. It's weird that /pol/tards keep telling me to have kids because im white, but I am honestly pretty ugly so theres no point in spreading the genes.

A random person from New Spain

I can trace back to a sailor who inherited a distant relative’s estate on the Isle of Bute in Scotland in the 1700s. He then married a woman from a reasonably well-off Scottish family that was from an illegitimate branch of the Campbells of Cawdor. That family produced prominent estate and plantation owners on Tobago. They married into the Campbells of Airds. This taken together, I can follow noble pedigrees back to the earliest kings of Scotland and Dal Riada, if those earliest pedigrees aren’t made up. I have other lines that can back as far, but this one is the only one I’m 100% sure about because I have the church records, saisine records, court case decisions, etc. to back it up.
The more interesting question is the most recent ancestor of significant note that I have. It’s either
Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Baronet of Glenorchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_of_Glenorchy
Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Campbell,_6th_Earl_of_Argyll
Or
Hector MacLean, 15th Chief of Clan MacLean
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Hector_Og_Maclean,_15th_Chief

My earliest known ancestor is surprisingly similar. A Protestant man from the Midwest.

Palatinate Germans who settled in Pennsylvania some time before the Revolutionary War.

>>17928242 (OP)
Unironically medieval French nobility (1200 AD).
Most of my family lineages can be traced to 1700-1500 otherwise.
A significant portion being dispossessed nobility disposed to leave for the colonies.
My surname in particular (whose last certain ancestor of mine dates to 1500) only derives from Norman nobility; the name itself then being at least 500 years older than that.

>>17928744
My brother...

>>17928242 (OP)
Likely Charles I

>>17928242 (OP)
My family was listed in the founding charter of my village as one of the first to settle here in the mid 15th century

>>17928242 (OP)
Early 16 Century. It was a unremarkable family of northen italian farmers, altought some of them achieved some position of certain power within the church (bishops ecc.)
There are rumors among the family of even earlier ancestry tied to a dispossesed noble family of another part of Italy with a similar name too. But this is currently impossible to prove with the documents i have found

>>17928792
Charles I of what country? Fucking idiot. And if you can trace it back to some major king (which most Western Europeans can) then you can easily go much further back.

>>17928242 (OP)
13th century Polish noble/knight and from a different side of the family a peasant from about the same period give or take, also Polish.

>>17928242 (OP)
Considering how common paternity fraud is and how more common it becomes the deeper into your family tree you go it is likely the people you think you are related to you actually aren't related to unless you have DNA evidence.

>>17928242 (OP)
Same. There's even a """town""" in Virginia that was founded by my ancestors, but it's not much more than a pair of crossroads, a few farms, and a cemetery.

>>17928242 (OP)
My father's father's father's father, who I forget his name but he was Irish catholic. Or my father's father's father's mother, who was a protestant... possibly a convert or a result of mixed marriage because she had a catholic family name. McGee her Maiden name was. I wish I knew the previous generation. My grandfather said his grandmother was protestant. That's all he said. He's gone now, I can't ask him. My aunt did some digging and she reckons she was a descendent of Scottish Nobles who moved to Ulster. Or else it was another protestant from my father's maternal line, I don't remember. I scoffed it off, but apparently some of my family did DNA tests and it seems to confirm that. If true, I don't know what to make of this

Can't believe i'm a fucking mutt. I hate this. I'm at least over 85 % Irish, so it's not too bad. But still...

I'm brahmin so my ancestor was probably white

>>17928242 (OP)
I was adopted
I have no known ancestry
my adoptive parents trace their families back to Ireland around the time of the potato famine, so it’s likely they emigrated then.

>>17930359
That sucks
Maybe find out who your biological parents are. Do a DNA test and you might get a lead

just going up my line of fathers its a swiss man who migrated to pennsylvania in 1736 and then to ohio in what would later be called the "berne township" due to all the swiss people there.

>>17930365
funny thing about the safe haven boxes at fire stations
they don’t really ask questions
I was a ward of the state for the first year of my life, there’s nothing for me to even investigate

>>17931351
The fact you were in one of those is a lead in it's self
Do a DNA test from a company that will tell you your relations from others that have taken used their service and then you can get in contact with them and piece things together. Or not. What ever you want to do. But that's your best route

>>17928242 (OP)
>Who's your earliest known ancestor?
They were born in the mid-900s in what is modern-day Southwest England. Records from before this are complicated, because while we do know when the person before this was born, we do not know their name, as before this individuals weren't documented, but their clan or house was, and so they were simply written down as the patriarch of the house of which I get my surname. Based on my surnames meaning, and where my earliest ancestor is from, we can infer that this individual or their direct ancestor likely came from what is somewhere between what is modern-day Belgium or the Netherlands, basically between modern-day France and Germany, and at some point crossed over the English channel. This would've been sometime in the late 800s to early 900s most likely. I also know the exact names of every single one of my ancestors between then and now. The individual from the mid 900s would be my 30th Great Grandfather.
Of course I have the privilege of having connections with professional genealogists so this kind of thing is literally their job. But honestly, most of these people have little relevance to me, it's just fun trivia and it's neat to know where I ultimately came from.

>>17928242 (OP)
I've never bothered figuring this out because I know it's just peasant dirt farmers. I am of solid pure undiluted working stock my ancestors have never known anything but labour

>>17928242 (OP)
Mine got btfo'd by Cromwell at Dunbar, captured, then got deported as an indentured servant to some ironworks in Massachusetts

>>17928242 (OP)
A Quaker plantation owner from Wales who settled in the American South in the 1700's.

a German minor vassal noble from the 15th century

My surname is so uncommon it traces very far back to Merovingian pilgrims at a monastery in Germany.

>>17928242 (OP)
4 or 5x great aunt who was a nun in 19th century Naples. My nana has a photo of her kicking around somewhere