Two Germans Share World's Longest Family Tree (3000 years!)

[Lorizael]

You totally just made that up. Or stole it from like a Star Trek species.

[Alinestra Covelia]

The same could be said about the Germans. Because everybody knows Neanderthals were really killed off by competition from the inhabitants of Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B, as per Douglas Adams.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

3,000 years? Not even close to the longest.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/03/08/nched08.html

[Theben]

Originally posted by MarkG
Me-Alexander link >> some random german-some random caveman

you-Alexander link= delusional fantasy= par for the course

[onodera]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Well, in most Chinese families there is a poem written centuries ago, and every character in the poem becomes the "generational character" for a given generation. So, if you say that the first four words of the poem are "Heaven arches, protects earth", then the first generation of males will have "heaven" as their middle character, the second will have "arches" as their middle character, and so on.



I also remember hearing about 5 years ago that one of the men who traced his ancestry to Confucius had failed the Taipei University entrance exam in Taiwan. Although given the 1.5 million descendants around the world, this is actually a fairly likely occurrence, it still made me smile.

Maybe the rumours I heard that the birth of every Chinese is recorded in a book in their ancestral village are also true?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Well I dunno about each village having a birth book. But each family certainly used to have a 家谱 "jia pu" record of births. Usually this only included boys, but some of these go back dozens of generations.

In the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party destroyed many such records, so much of that information is lost. However, many of the Chinese that fled the mainland during this time were able to preserve the records to some degree.

Apparently my father's family had detailed records but those were lost. We have a barebones family tree listing only the firstborn male descendants for 14 generations.

It's pretty cool. My brother would be the straight line patrilineal firstborn for 14 generations, according to that. He is somewhat indifferent to this.

[MarkG]

you dont look chinese. we need more photo-proof of your chiness. post several generations of your family or something

[Ben Kenobi]

I didn't know that MarkG was from Afghanistan.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by MarkG
you dont look chinese. we need more photo-proof of your chiness. post several generations of your family or something

My mom is from Hong Kong and is white. This has been established in previous threads. Keep up!

[OzzyKP]

Cool stuff Alinestra

[Alexander I]

Originally posted by MarkG
Me-Alexander link >> some random german-some random caveman

The things you learn about yourself...

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Well I dunno about each village having a birth book. But each family certainly used to have a 家谱 "jia pu" record of births. Usually this only included boys, but some of these go back dozens of generations.

In the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party destroyed many such records, so much of that information is lost. However, many of the Chinese that fled the mainland during this time were able to preserve the records to some degree.

Apparently my father's family had detailed records but those were lost. We have a barebones family tree listing only the firstborn male descendants for 14 generations.

It's pretty cool. My brother would be the straight line patrilineal firstborn for 14 generations, according to that. He is somewhat indifferent to this.

That is pretty cool.

JM

[Straybow]

Cheddar Man! Forgotten all about that. I'd probably be descended from Gouda man.

[Provost Harrison]

Filthy incestuous bastards

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
My mom is from Hong Kong and is white. This has been established in previous threads. Keep up!

Hong Kong is not really chinese