Bloganuary Day 8: Family Tree

Another day of January, another day of the WordPress Bloganuary challenge. Today’s prompt asks:

How far back in your family tree can you go?

Admittedly, genealogy is a hobby I’ve been able to sit out, as two others in my family absolutely love to do it. They’ve tracked our family tree pretty far back, though I couldn’t tell you how much. (Again, not my hobby, though I do read the information they send to me.)

I do know that I have ancestors from many countries in Europe—Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and England. Those are the ones I can remember, but it’s possible I’ve left off one or two.

As I’m in the midst of creating a large fantasy world, this question makes me curious how family trees look for my main characters and so perhaps I’ll explore a bit of that.