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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:20:47 EDT


Hi
I promised I would send this to Jill. I know many have already seen it
but for those of you who haven't enjoy.

WHAT A BACKGROUND
The next time you are feeling rather unimportant. Try a little
arithmetic trick
based on the undebateable fact that it took two people, your parents to
get
you here. Each of you parents have two parents. So in the generation
prior
to your mother and fater there were four people whose pairing off and
sharing
love contributed to your existence.

You are the product of eight great grandparents, sixteen great great
grand-
parents, thirty two great great great grandparents etc..Keep
multiplying that
number by two. If you figure a average of twenty-five years between
each
generation you'll discover that in a scant 500 years ago there were
1,048,576
people on this planet beginning to produce YOU.
Atributed to the Rev. Gene Britton

I hope you think about that. consider the file you would need to list them
all.
Happy Researching
Margaret

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