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

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Well, documentably back to 1770 or so on the convict side of my family. Somewhat apocryphally back to 1600ish on the other side, who came to Australia from the Channel Islands but according to family tradition and rather fuzzy genealogy were Huguenot refugees some time before that.