What year was your earliest known ancestor born?

Question:and the location if you know it.
How many generations ago was that?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: and the location if you know it.
How many generations ago was that?

So far, I have my mother's family name traced back to about 1662 in Shropshire County, England (in the towns of Clunbury and Clungunford). However, there is a town called Coston--Mom's maiden name-- in England that dates back to the invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066 and is listed in his Domesday Book census in 1086. Looking at www.familysearch.org just now, the earliest listing from the towns I mentioned above is for a MRS. DE COSTON, who was born about 1260.
So, should those listed in 1066-1086 be part of my mom's family, if you subtract 2008 and 1066, you get 942 years. Figuring 20 years to a generation , you divide the 942 by 20 equals 47.1 generations. Figuring the same way for 1086, I end up with 46.1 generations.
My search so far gives me 346 years and 17.3 generations, or about my 7th great-grandfather.

(NOTE--To Sukisbk23--I found a few things tonight on LOUIS KROLL, like his and his wife's listing on the 1910 census plus their kids names; his Naturalization petition, etc. If you send me your email address --mine is on my profile page--I'll forward the information. Was his wife Fanny's maiden name something like STENBERG or STANBERG?? If so, I might have found her on familysearch.org.)

Daniel Evans.
1990.
Burlington Hospital.
My generation =D
that's as farr back as I go -doesn't know my parents, etc,

My grandfather was born in 1911 in China

12 great grandfathers back ..... 1400's..... England

Joseph B Fields
Born: 1755
Washington, [county], Virginia, USA
Died: 1823
Russell, [county], Virginia, USA
for sure...

Still researching

8 generations

king hokan of norway
like 1200ish

but the norwegian has been so diluted, im almost entirely polish, so it hardly even counts.

My family has kept a book of all of our ancestors, I can go back 9 generations and the date is in the 1500's. My family came from France, and ended up in Canada, matter fact 7 monuments were erected in Montreal for the accomplishments of what ancestors had done. Majority of my family during that time were artisans and explorers. .

my side - 1700s some England some Ireland (4x and 5x Great Grandparent)
my husband's side - 1500s England (I think 9x or 10x Great Grandparent)

Lord Boyd of Scottland, cousin of Mary Queen of Scotts is the furthest I have gone back in my mother's line. He cared for the orphaned king as regent until the King was old enough to chop off his head....ha ha
My mother was born in 1928, and her mother in 1900, and her mother in 1888...so it has been many generations.

at least u guys know your ancestry
i dont know $hit about mine

Documented (and yet illusive) in Cornwall, England. Probably the old tin mining town of Bodmin. His name was Captain Robert Beheathland, secretary to Capt. John Smith. Landed aboard (I'm certain... personal hunch here) the Susan Constant...at Jamestown, Virginia, 13 May, 1607.

Or, it might have been the Godspeed or the Discovery, but I favor the Susan Constant.

Once CERTIFIED line goes back to 1505 (+/- 10 years) to England. Of course this does require acceptance of paternity declarations.

The next oldest CERTIFIED line goes back to 1636 in Isle of Wight, Virginia to a grandfather who came over on a Land Grant issued to Justinian Cooper - and the family stayed in the same area to this day.

BUT, in my "that's cool but who knows" part of my genealogy I go back to 965AD. Do I believe for a second this is valid?? Absolutely not, but it is fun. And it isn't too much of a stretch since I do have that particular line certified back to 1820. What's a thousand years in the grand scheme of things.

My Greatgrandfather Louis Kroll about 1872 in Russia, came to N.Y. about 1890. Need help getting any further up the tree!!

Depending on what line you want...on my mom's side...her dad's family is traceable back to the 12th century in London, England. On my dad's side...his 2nd great grandfather was born in the highlands of Scotland. I am what you would call a mutt...English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, French, Cherokee, Choctaw and Creek Indian.

Probably millenia ago, somewhere in present-day East Africa. Doubtful that they looked anything like either present-day sub-Saharan Africans or present-day Europeans. Probably somewhere in-between. Don't know how many generations ago that would be, but I'm sure it would be A LOT.