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How Far Back Can You Trace Your Family Tree?
How many generations back can the average determined genealogist actually trace their European ancestry? The answer is humbling: roughly ten to fourteen generations, hitting a brick wall in the late 1500s or early 1600s. This episode explores why parish records fail, how war and bureaucracy destroyed whole lineages, and why the concept of "family" itself changes as you go further back. Then we turn to the astonishing exceptions — the Confucius family tree with two million documented descendants spanning 2,500 years, the Japanese imperial line reaching back 1,500 years, and the genetic…
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