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will we ever finish our family trees?
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Tony | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:28 |
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Only 1 YOU 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great grandparents 16 gg grandparents 32 ggg grandparents 64 gggg grandparents 128 ggggg grandparents 256 gggggg grandparents 512 ggggggg grandparents 1,024 gggggggg grandparents 2,048 ggggggggg grandparents 4,096 gggggggggg grandparents 8,192 ggggggggggg grandparents 16,184 gggggggggggg grandparents 32,768 ggggggggggggg grandparents 65,536 gggggggggggggg grandparents 131,072 ggggggggggggggg grandparents 262,144 gggggggggggggggg grandparents 524,288 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents 1,048,576 gggggggggggggggggg grandparents 2,097,152 ggggggggggggggggggg grandparents Is it any wonder that we spend so much time on genealogy? Tony |
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lynnchalmers70 | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:38 |
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oh my god, throwing in the towel now |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:41 |
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Tony, Ah... this is an interesting theory and of course your maths are sort of correct. Now go back another ten gg's to 30 generations, which is approx 1066, and how many ancestors are ther then? Actually it is hugely more than thepopulation at the time. So what does this mean? Probably that we are more interrelted than you think as a result of cousins marring etc. So next time you bump up against someone on the tube, just think, you might share the same ancestors. Scarry eh...? |
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Fi aka Wheelie Spice | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:42 |
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I hope we dont cos i will get very bored. What will I do with all my time, if i cant do my family tree? LOL Fi |
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Phoenix | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:44 |
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So how come all women are descended from less than a dozen Eves? Your maths would have my stone age ancestors so thick upon the planet, there'd be no room left for the dinosaurs! B |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:44 |
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Peter The Scientific word for that is 'implection' (Cousin marriages, that is, and the effect it has on the number of your ancestors) Marjorie |
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Fern | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:46 |
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As I have always thought everyone is related to everyone. I think it is impossible to finish the family tree there is always a new road to go down. Fern. |
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lynnchalmers70 | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:51 |
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well if were related, that means; what yours is mine and mines is mine LOL |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:52 |
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Does anyone else find that the siblings of, say 3 x grannie, are far more interesting than your actual direct line or am I just directly descended from people who seemed fairly settled all their life! Apart from my Trinity Pilots, all my direct line are cotton spinners or ag labs. They all seemed to be hatched, matched and despatched after several children without a great deal of scandal attached. Then I look further into the family and find that one ggrandfather's brother and sister shacked up together (until I can prove otherwise!). Another one of them did at least 10yrs in Brixton Prison. And another one had 15 children with 4 wives, 2 of whom I can't find deaths for so suspect he may have just ditched them for younger models! I can't see me ever 'finishing' the tree, nor would I want to...these people are just so fascinating! |
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Helen | Report | 5 Mar 2005 22:53 |
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Are you trying to tell me I was already related to the mother-in-law before I married her son? |
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Vickie | Report | 5 Mar 2005 23:29 |
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I have a man married to his niece, makes for an interesting state of relationships...if they divorce they still have to face each other at family do's. My mum and dad's line have intermarried on two occasions way back, now I have discovered two women marrying into mum's line from my ex mother in laws...and they come from opposite ends of Vict, Australia......SCARY!!! LOL Vickie |
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Tony | Report | 5 Mar 2005 23:59 |
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u got me worried now so does that mean i was already related to my wife and am still related to my ex wife? scary |
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Ria | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:08 |
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All I can say is, i've just got back from the pub and I am now pmsl hahahahaha. Maria |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:15 |
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And to think I was stressing that my 3 x grandmother might have actually been a prostitute. Now all I can think about is the fact that I'm still related to my ex husband and his mother and probably to my other half's ex wife. These are not pretty thoughts especially as the ex wife is known as the psycho hose beast for reasons I wont go into in a public forum! |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:29 |
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I always wondered why I 've got webbed fingers and 3 ears.......... |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:30 |
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Teri Don't joke...my other half's 2 children from his first marriage HAVE got webbed toes! Our children haven't so he reckons it comes from her side! Lou |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:35 |
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eek, sorry! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:39 |
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Lou, I'm really intrigued about your partners ex now lol maggie |
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Researching: |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Mar 2005 00:51 |
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Maggie She's definitely one of a kind....thank goodness! I'd better not say too much (she might be a member, you never know!) but lets just say she had a different opinion of what monogamous meant, she likes knives (I have the scars!) and has a problem with split personality and on occasions likes to do things and pretend that she's me! Lovely woman! Lou |
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