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Bloganuary 2023 #8: – How far back in your family tree can you go?

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Not that far back – only to grandparents and great grandparents.

Growing up I was always given the advice, “why do you want to go looking back at that for? You’ll only be looking for trouble.”

Which has only left me intrigued as a result.

Bit of a short and sweet post that one… How tall is your family tree?t

Bloganuary is a month-long blogging challenge in January, where you’ll receive a daily writing prompt to inspire you to publish a post on your blog. You can respond to the prompts in any way you like: a story, a picture, a poem, a drawing, a recipe, or even a song. Anything goes!

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3 responses to “Bloganuary 2023 #8: – How far back in your family tree can you go?”

  1. Tabula Rasa Avatar

    We got ours back to 1600 ish. The one thing that always interested me was down the family line (we’ve a portrait of my great great grandma) we all have the folds over your eyes that you might associate people from the Far East with. We can only assume that it goes all the way back to a gentleman from Portsmouth described as “swarthy” but where he came from and if it went even further back than that, no one knows.

    1. Adam Leone Avatar

      1600! Wow! How did you do that?

      1. Tabula Rasa Avatar

        My mother spent a decade tracing back through births, deaths and marriages and census records and the like. If records were a bit sketchy I think there were even a few grave yard visits.

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