No importance at all and I have no family left above me - but I do have a name that only four other people in england have, which makes me smile.

It’s important to know where you come from. Funny story, since I was a child I was told that my grandpa was Italian. So I always said I was black and Italian. I took one of those 23andMe test. Turns out I am 0% Italian. Really shatters what you think you knew about yourself.

Outside of curiosity, it means nothing. I got excited when I found out that our family line goes back to one of the first convicts sent to Australia from England.

Not important in the slightest.

Quite interesting, but not important.

It isnt.

Not at all.

It doesn't matter much though I'm proud of my dad.

Important? No. Interesting yes.

For me it is very important because we've lost history because on my maternal side they didn't want to talk about the Jewish family and on the paternal side they didn't want to talk about the Native American family

I don't know if it's important as such, certainly not to people outside my immediate family, but it was fascinating to trace my family back to 1696 using old census records and other documents.

I used genesreunited.com and thru that also found out some history about an aunt and uncle who emigrated to Australia 5 years before I was born which I couldn't get anywhere else but enabled me to make contact with my then 96 year old aunt just before she died, so it was really cool.

Outside of the people l actually knew or know, not important.

I was adopted as a baby and have not made any move to find my birth parents. I promised my mom I wouldn't so I intend to honor that promise as long as she lives.

Not really important. Unless I'm one of the Rothschilds.

Not at all.

I have done some family research on Ansestry.com and while it was interesting and impressive, it had no affect on my life.

In my teens and twenties I was zealous in tracking down my genealogical roots. I think I was looking for a sense of place that I'd never felt growing up. I can see where it may benefit me for medical reasons, but otherwise it's just interesting. My family are the people I've chosen to be in my life, and I'm who I make myself to be.

Perhaps,doing research about a mutation in the family,say everyone had brown eyes and blue eyes appear, who,and when.

Not really important to me.

I would like to know where my family came from. My father got as far back as 1750 and then the trail went cold. I often think of DNA testing to get a general idea but I'm suspicious that they might be telling people any old story because they can't check it themselves.

Completely unimportant.

Genealogically it has no allure for me. Genetically it had some importance but I've settled that with testing.

Not important at all, but I'm interested in history, my own included.

always enjoy that stuff. both sides of my families' history is known for many many generations. there's some interesting stories and interesting characters back in there. how much that shapes me I do not know.

Not important to me at all. Could be very interesting though. I'd love to discover I had Norse ancestry so I could justify some cool Viking tattoos!

Fam history/lineage is very important to me. I'm part of a diaspora, and we know a lot about our roots and origins. The last 3 generations in my family all identify similarly in regards to faith and atheism though, so I think that makes it easy for me to embrace my history/lineage/roots. We are culturally still keeping up the traditions of our people though. Just not religiously.