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Subject: Re: How Many Ancestors Do You Have?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:53:09 EST

In a message dated 11/3/99 9:18:09 AM Pacific Standard Time,
writes:

<< And that only takes you back to the year 1100 !! Is it any wonder that
we spend so much time on genealogy? This also must mean that nearly
everyone in the world is our cousin!" >>
Well, it would.....if there was never any intermarriage between cousins.
However, even just one "cousin" intermarriage cuts the numbers prior to them
in half. In my case, gg grandma and gg grandpa were 1st cousins; their
fathers were brothers. Thus, they had common grandparents. Follow? (Oh,
yes. They were married on 2 Sep 1841 in Uwchlan Twp., Chester co. And just
six weeks later, gt grandpa was born....do that tell you a story???) <grin>
Ray Downing in NV

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