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Subject: [DNA] "Deep" ancestry
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:39:58 EST


I believe I picked this phrase up from Oxford Ancestors, and I think it's
pretty descriptive when we refer to our ancestors from thousands of years
ago. But I can't think of a good antonym for more recent ancestors, the ones
of interest to us in a genealogical time frame. My dictionary only has one
antonym -- "shallow" -- and that just doesn't cut it. "Recent" or "modern" or
"historical" might be better, but they're rather vague. Any ideas? Shall we
make up our own word?

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