How far back do you know your family?

We traced my dad’s family back to 1748 in Germany.

We traced my mom’s family to the 1850s in Russia.

For all of these we knew first and last names. I have this on a family tree somewhere.

We have 14 of 16 great-grandparents identified. The gap is because my paternal grandmother’s father hid his past, so we only know that he immigrated to the US from Germany.

Beyond that, we have a few threads getting back as far as the 1600s in Scotland and Ireland and the 1500s in England.

On my mother’s side – at least one of its lines (because as we go back generationally we square the number of ancestors) – I know our history back to around 1630, with one emigration from England. However, my mother’s own mother came from England herself. (I don’t know any more about her English antecedents.)

On my father’s side (again, one branch only), I know the history back to Colonial days, though I don’t know the date in the 17th century, with another emigration from England. And my father’s own father came from Sweden, but I also know nothing more than that about his own ancestry.

I have two different answers to this question since I am adopted.

My dad and my lovely niece had a thing going on a couple of years ago and they traced my dad’s family back to the 17th century and a knight who died in battle in today’s Germany. On my mother’s side I know that most of them emigrated to America from Sweden in the early 19th century.

My biological history as being adopted, is more complicated. The only thing I know is that my biological mother was a young Thai woman/girl whom in the midst of the end of the Vietnam war in Bangkok, made her living in the only way she could. I am not 100% Thai, I know I have “western genetics” in me.

Six generations on my mom’s side and 5 generations on my dad’s.
My sister is a genealogist by hobby and historian (Master’s degree in Art/History).

I have one grandmother. That’s about the depth of my understanding of family history.

I have a French ancestor who surrendered Acadia to the English because he did not get paid in time 300 years ago. I also have a infamous lieutenant who took the last horse and charged the Zulu line and escaped .They just let him ride free.

I can go back five generations to 1778 when my great, great, great grandfather was born just 18 miles from where I came into the world.

My father’s side of the family was from southern Scotland, and we have a family crest to prove it. Came to the US in the 1680’s, settled in Virginia. A great uncle was Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston.
My mother’s family came from Cork County, Ireland in about 1890, came into the US through Los Angeles, settled in Boise, ID. USA. One of their son’s fought in WWI in the tank corps., later worked as a brakeman on a construction train building Hoover Dam.

All four of my grandparents came to the US individually in the 1870’s. My father’s parents came from a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire that’s now Slovenia, and met and married here in the US. Our family name, though, seems to be Croatian. My mother’s parents came from Ireland, met and married here. I have a family bible that was handed down from my mother’s mother’s father, published in 1865.