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Hi to all my tenth-cousins !!
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Simon | Report | 15 Mar 2004 13:48 |
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If it's good enough for the Windsors - it's good enough for us !! |
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Rick | Report | 15 Mar 2004 13:22 |
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Hi Simon, So you're basically calling us all a bunch of in-breds ? Rick ;-) |
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Simon | Report | 15 Mar 2004 13:16 |
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Just some very basic, un-scientific maths I’ve been playing around with, which I think to some extent illustrates that you don’t have to go back all that far until you reach a point where all of us, to some extent, are probably related : Allowing an average of 30 years between each generation, doubling up grandparents gives you 1024 direct ancestors in the late 17th century. Given that the population of England then was around 5.2 million, you would only need about 5000 people (the population of many large towns) alive today to ‘fill up’ that 17th century population just with their direct ancestors. Of course, these figures throughout history will have been skewed by a number of factors, such as immigration/emigration, but I think the illustration still holds. I could go into a whole ‘peace/love’ thing, us all being brothers and sisters etc – but I won’t ! Simon |
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Simon | Report | 15 Mar 2004 13:15 |
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