(August 30, 2016 at 4:05 pm)RobertE Wrote: This is not really about politics guys and gals. It is something that blows my mind in a way. For example, the population in 1066 in the United Kingdom was just over 3 million people. Yet, we would need to go back roughly 30 generations to get back to our ancestors from 1066...this is equal to 1,073,741,824 ancestors not counting aunts or uncles or cousins. This would be incredible since the world population around that time was roughly 350-400 million. It is weird just to think about it, that only one person has that amount of ancestors in between, and a neighbour has exactly the same.
It's why I'm never terribly impressed when someone says my 9th great-grandmother's sister was blah, blah (someone famous). Maybe that's an American thing to say things like that. It's no big deal because there are thousands of other living people who can say the exact same thing.
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