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?

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[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I'm vaguely related maternally to some of the bunch that went across from Westward Ho. Not that I know much more than that. But I did have some relatives in Charleston during the civil war who'd been there for a long time - the Edmondston-Alston house is some sort of historical monument now. Also on the maternal side the Shetland branch of the family can be traced back to something like 1590-odd, but with any real accuracy from about 1700.

My father's paternal side goes back a long way in Alsace, but I've never tracked it down myself.