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

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

The family story is that we are related to the notorious Jack Sheppard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sheppard), hung at Tyburn in 1724.

It's highly apocryphal and probably complete bollocks, but too good a story to check.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

cool! I was just reading about him. (And Neal Stephenson's been reading about him too, I'd say.)

Any evidence whatsoever?