How far back can you trace it? Is there anything particularly noteworthy that your ancestors (however recent) did, or that you feel proud of? Was your great-great-grandfather an Italian assassin with a penchant for graciously endowed bookstore owners?
A generalish discussion I guess, on how important family is to you, what you do know, and what you'd like to know. Also any advice on tracing family trees would be much appreciated, as I'm about to attempt to do this for my family, hopefully as far back as a few hundred years.
Also if you know your family motto, post it along with its meaning (spoilered out), that way it can be a bit of a game, and we can also see how many families share the same motto. Mine should be relatively easy...
A generalish discussion I guess, on how important family is to you, what you do know, and what you'd like to know. Also any advice on tracing family trees would be much appreciated, as I'm about to attempt to do this for my family, hopefully as far back as a few hundred years.
(Always faithful)
I don't know that much about my family, other than my surname has gained a bit of notoriety as a word (to form a lynch mob) and I have many extended German and Irish relations. We have a lot of naturally brilliant swimmers & athletes in general, and also a few policemen/armed forces personnel. Nothing that interesting that I know of yet unfortunately.
I don't know that much about my family, other than my surname has gained a bit of notoriety as a word (to form a lynch mob) and I have many extended German and Irish relations. We have a lot of naturally brilliant swimmers & athletes in general, and also a few policemen/armed forces personnel. Nothing that interesting that I know of yet unfortunately.
Also if you know your family motto, post it along with its meaning (spoilered out), that way it can be a bit of a game, and we can also see how many families share the same motto. Mine should be relatively easy...