Quick Questions #1: Ancestry

[tamaranth]

Inspired by a reference in Route 66 AD to Egyptian priests at the time of the Roman Empire, who claimed to trace their ancestry back 10,000 years:

How far back (in years) can you track your family?

Can you think of anyone who can track their family back before the Norman Conquest?

Comments

[avirr.livejournal.com]

With me, it's four generations, to about 1880. Not a lot of documentary evidence for Jews in Russia/Poland/Ukraine before that :-(