I was having a talk with my mother today and found out my great great great grandmother was white, I've spent the past hour looking for info on my ancestors and i've gotten as far back as the 1860s.

Things like this just fascinate me.

Have you ever researched your family's history and origins, and if so how far back did you go?

Bump, not here for a flop thread.

Now I'm in the early 1700s, I need to stop.

I'm Moroccan so I can't. All I know is that my roots are Berber.

Yeah.

And apparently my family is a direct descendent from a Moroccan-Spanish Jewish man.

The family was shocked, there's other things in there some obvious, others just as surprising.

Not this question when your icon is Amanda Clarke Not me watching Revenge while reading this

I've tried doing a family tree but never made it farther than three generations.

I HAVE gotten one of those 23&me kits which sequences parts of your genome and identifies your ancestry based on your haplogroups, though. Apparently I'm predominately Ashkenazi Jewish and Eastern European, but I also supposedly have about .1% Native American and Southern African ancestry, so please check your privilege.

OMG.