@fkusumot: Good that we can agree on that...maybe I didn´t express myself clearly in my original posts... I apologize as well.
Anyway my family history (the royal one at least) goes back to the thirteenth century, they lived near the swiss border and were closely related to the Habsburger family... one of the most important familyes in europe during the late middle-ages... they ruled great parts of Germany, Austria even Spain for a very long time (they married a lot to get more power)... however my family split form them pretty early and moved north, in my area there are three castles that still cary my family name (yes europe if full of castels) unfortunalty for me they lost them all due to a financial crysis... all thats left now is our family emblem and a "von" infront of our name.
Thats the only image of it I could find online... the one we have is much nicer... anyway thats just one part of my family, the rest were famers from all over germany... and some musicians from berlin... but its hard to track them... the royal part is much easier to find.
So now you know most of my familys past... what about yours ??? Know anything about them before or during the civil war ??? I find that period of time highly fascinating...
