if you go back 10 generation on your family tree who does it go back to?

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LarsEighner · Accepted Answer

The ones I've found:

Thomas Vail (1628-1687)
Sarah Wentworth (1630-1688)
William Hunt
Alice Tymes
Nathaniel FitzRandolf (1642-1713)
Mary Holley (1648-1703)
Benjamin Borden (1649-1728)
Abigail Grover (1653-1720)
William Winter (1653-1733)
Hannah Grover (1660-?) sister of Abigail
John McKnitt
Jane Wallace
Reice Bodurtha (1645-1683)
Blanche Lewis (?-1684)
Thomas Remington (1635-1721)
Mehitable Walker (1635-1718)
Samuel Frost
James Sweet (1630-?)
Mary Greene (1622-1686)
Benjamin Congdon (1650-1718)
Elizabeth Albro (1647-1720)
Joseph Stafford (1648-1679)
Sarah Holden (1658-1731)
John Gifford (1644-1707)
Elishua Crowell (1648-?)
Stephen Northup (1658-1733)
Eber Sherman (1634-1744)
Mary Wilcox (1635-?)
Benjamin Congdon (1674-1756) son of Benjamin above
Francis Stafford (1679-1744) daughter of Joseph above
Yelverton Gifford (1676-1722) son of John above
Ann Northup (1691-1772) daughter of Stephen above
John Seeley (1661-1707)
Rebecca Sanford
John Peat
Mary Moorehouse

Theoretically there would be 1024, but as can be seen above (and in other places) my family tree does not branch so much. Clearly I have identified fewer than 10% of my ancestors in the 10th generation.

lorna · Answer

Sarah Petersen of Germant, Charles Gerberzofsky of Lithuania, and some name I can't pronounce from Israel.

Nothingusefullearnedinschool · Answer

Germans, English, Welsh, Puritans, etc.

nancymomkids · Answer

I have gone back to the year 971 and found one name.

In France we have many relatives, mainly from Rouen, France in the north.

I found I am related to Kings Edward I, II, and III.  They were pretty awful people.  Their histories included homosexuality, infidelity, treachery, and murder.

Nancy

Paladin · Answer

1024 people

(or so)

13 of whom have been identified

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if you go back 10 generation on your family tree who does it go back to?

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