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From: "Jane Gilbert" <>
Subject: [GILBERT-DNA] Another quick update
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:20:42 -0500


Some responses I got to my e-mail reminded me of a couple of tasks I had on my To Do list that were neglected.

First, the lineage of Kit 98946 has been updated. This participant hired a researcher who was able to tell him his exact connection to the Hoffenheim Gilbert line, so I've updated his lineage to reflect this as well as his most distant ancestor.

Also, for those of you in non-digest mode, I'm hoping the end of this message will contain a link to the Gilbert Y-DNA Project website. If the change I made to the list settings works, then this link should be contained in every e-mail. Hopefully it will work. (But just in case: http://www.janegilbert.org/gilbertdna )

And one last note, tonight on 60 Minutes, they did a segment on genetic genealogy which I thought was really good. If you missed it, 60 Minutes has it on their website:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3643658n&channel=/sections/60minutes/videoplayer3415.shtml

And the one geneticist touched on something I had just typed up this morning to share with you. In case you'd never done the math, not taking into account possible duplications, you have the following mind-boggling ancestors...

2 parents
4 grand parents
8 great grandparents
16 2nd great grandparents
32 3rd great grandparents
64 4th great grandparents
128 5th great grandparents
256 6th great grandparents
512 7th great grandparents
1024 8th great grandparents
2048 9th great grandparents
4096 10th great grandparents
8192 11th great grandparents
16,384 12th great grandparents
32,768 13th great grandparents
65,536 14th great grandparents
131,072 15th great grandparents
262,144 16th great grandparents
524,288 17th great grandparents
1,048,576 18th great grandparents

With this in mind, here is one of my favorite quotes...

"Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result - eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly - in you." - Bill Bryson the book A Short History of Nearly Everything

Ok, so now I'm done with Gilbert genealogy until after the holidays. : )

Here's wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season!

Jane




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