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I don't know if it's because I'm getting older (ha!) or just because I've always been interested in history, particularly ancient history, but I've wanted to trace my family-line, as far back as possible, for quite some time now. Our family has a book chronicling our ancestors family-lines from the time they moved from Prussia to settle in South Australia and beyond (from the late 1830s up to the mid-1980s when it was published).
What I'd love to do is trace my family-line back even further. I know very little about their time before coming to Australia. I know we are descended from the Saxons that stayed behind in 'Germany' when the others took parts of Western Europe (Great Britain etc.) and that centuries later they moved into what is now western Poland, not long (relatively) before they settled in Australia. But beyond that I know nothing. It seems there's heaps of information on Anglo-Saxons, but not so much on Saxons themselves (the Germanic tribes that remained in 'Germany').
In a perfect world, I'd love to trace family history all the way to Noah's sons, but between plagues, wars eg. Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun or slavery, natural disasters etc. and some cultures not having any or few written records, there's no way that's realistic goal. Still, one can dream.
I don't care about ancestral elitism or anything, I'm just seriously interested in this stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
What I'd love to do is trace my family-line back even further. I know very little about their time before coming to Australia. I know we are descended from the Saxons that stayed behind in 'Germany' when the others took parts of Western Europe (Great Britain etc.) and that centuries later they moved into what is now western Poland, not long (relatively) before they settled in Australia. But beyond that I know nothing. It seems there's heaps of information on Anglo-Saxons, but not so much on Saxons themselves (the Germanic tribes that remained in 'Germany').
In a perfect world, I'd love to trace family history all the way to Noah's sons, but between plagues, wars eg. Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun or slavery, natural disasters etc. and some cultures not having any or few written records, there's no way that's realistic goal. Still, one can dream.
I don't care about ancestral elitism or anything, I'm just seriously interested in this stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!