How Far did you trace your Family Tree?

[LucasKernan]

How Far did you trace your Family Tree? I've traced mine's back to the 1700s.

[Marmalady]

Most lines back into the early 1700s but one or two lines back to the late 1500s / early 1600s

With an occasional brickwall in the 1800s

[Spelk]

For balance perhaps the survey should include the shortest line as well. The furthest back I have personally traced is to the late 1500s with G11 Gdad.
The shortest is a G2 Gman born about 1828. I think her mother was called Hannah but do not know where G2 Gmam was born and she seems to have been a bastard.

[pharmaT]

Depends which line.  I have one line back to the 1500s.  I was very lucky that the records survived and I was able to find them.  On the other hand I have line stuck in the 1800s.  The earliest definitive record I have for them is 1851, they would have been born c1830s and I have their parents names form their marriage and death certificates so I have the names of people born very early 1800s but not much on them.

[coombs]

It can all depend on the line, and how well off they were to leave wills or other property arrangements, and can also depend on a lot of work trying to see how far back you can go, and what records are available. If some PR's only go back to the early 1700s then you may have reached the end unless they left a will or were mentioned in wills.

The more that becomes available online, the easier it can get.

[Rena]

Depends which line.  I have one line back to the 1500s.  I was very lucky that the records survived and I was able to find them.  On the other hand I have line stuck in the 1800s.  The earliest definitive record I have for them is 1851, they would have been born c1830s and I have their parents names form their marriage and death certificates so I have the names of people born very early 1800s but not much on them.

Ditto

[brigidmac]

Most of my lines are mid 1800sbut afew back to late 1700 s the lines that cause most problems are Smith Jones Roberts and Brown .
Have traced lines of my grandmothers adoptive parents further than her birth mothers line

[coombs]

A line of my rural Sussex ancestors goes back to local landowners and a local knight who wed in London to a woman of Cheshire and Lincolnshire heritage. With a bit of Welsh blood thrown in, so I have some Welsh ancestry. The knight rented land in Somerset as well.

[Biggles50]

Have you ever seen Who Do You Think You Are where the Genealogist produces and unrolls the magnificent decorated scroll of the “Family Tree” of the English Monarchy with the tree going all the way back to God.

That is my tree.

OK so that was tongue in cheek.

Arnulf of Metz c582 is pretty far back in our tree.

Leutfried of Alammania herzog c480 is a tab further back.