Clinton and Trump...
August 30, 2016 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2016 at 3:51 pm by RobertE.)
Nobody likes Clinton...booo...hissssss, even more people hate Trump.....boooo, hissssss, traitor, splitter.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015...genealogy/
I read that article and I found it quite amazing to find out that they share a 19th Great-grandparent. We all know that 19th means 19th generation. So, I looked it up and found this:
http://familyforest.com/resources/51/anc...t-a-glance
In theory, it is correct and this is only including parents, grandparents and everyone else behind them, but what about cousins, aunts, uncles, 2nd cousins, 5 cousins once removed etc? It is amazing that in those 19 generations, there are 2^19 or 524,288 ancestors just for those two alone. Theoretically, we can go back just one more generation and that figure would rise to 1,048,576 people. Now, of course, people died young (hence why they gave a conservative estimate of 25 years for one generation) in those days, and there were stillbirths, but parents often made up for that fairly quickly.
What are your thoughts on this, if any? I know it is a boring subject, but it just makes you think how close we really are genetically. And it also means I have abaris as a 35th cousin 22 times removed .....*fuming*.....only kidding mate, the beer is on me (not literally of course.)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015...genealogy/
I read that article and I found it quite amazing to find out that they share a 19th Great-grandparent. We all know that 19th means 19th generation. So, I looked it up and found this:
http://familyforest.com/resources/51/anc...t-a-glance
In theory, it is correct and this is only including parents, grandparents and everyone else behind them, but what about cousins, aunts, uncles, 2nd cousins, 5 cousins once removed etc? It is amazing that in those 19 generations, there are 2^19 or 524,288 ancestors just for those two alone. Theoretically, we can go back just one more generation and that figure would rise to 1,048,576 people. Now, of course, people died young (hence why they gave a conservative estimate of 25 years for one generation) in those days, and there were stillbirths, but parents often made up for that fairly quickly.
What are your thoughts on this, if any? I know it is a boring subject, but it just makes you think how close we really are genetically. And it also means I have abaris as a 35th cousin 22 times removed .....*fuming*.....only kidding mate, the beer is on me (not literally of course.)
