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From: "Betty & Dick Dickinson" <>
Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] Re: All in the family
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 20:24:39 -0500
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To Complement Nancy Clark's "All in the family" note, here is a little bit
of statistical information I gleaned from another site.
Dick Dickinson


> If we allow 33 1/2 years for a generation, 15 generations take us back
> to 1400, and you would have 32, 768 ancestors in that generation.
> Go back 12 more generations, or another 400 years and you would have
> 67,108,834 ancestors in the 27th generation.
> Go back to the Norman conquest of England, the population was about 1.7
> million people and if you are of English or Scots ancestry, you are
> descended through a number of these different lines. The mathematical
> probability is that you are descended 40 different ways from every
> person living in Great Britain.
> If you are of Irish ancestry, there were 350,000 persons at that time,
> and you are probably descended from every person living in Ireland ,
> at that time, through 200 different lines from each one.
> First one to work up the charts wins!
>
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From: Nancy B Clark <>

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