I've been working on a family tree lately and found some pretty cool stuff that nobody (or few family members) seemed to know about.
One 3xGreat grandfather had 18+ children, all to the same woman.
Another ancestor apparently helped [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Barton]Edmund Barton[/url] become our first Prime Minister.
So anyway, I managed to track my Great-Grandmother's family back to the early 1700s.
How about yours?
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My mom is really into genealogy, so she has traced our family back to around the 1500's at this point.