By the time you get past 4th generation, the chances are starting to get a lot higher that you have duplicate ancestors. So this is the maximum possible number of ancestors.
I’ve been a genealogist since my teens and I’ve heard the same thing from the professionals, that’s it’s inevitable for one to have duplicate ancestors. Which is true in my family, too. On my mom’s side they lived in the same county or neighboring county since 1818 and, most with large families, many of the family married 3rd or 4th double cousins. On my dad’s side, one 1700s ancestor’s daughter-in-law was her cousin’s daughter.
And, tracing back to Adam and Eve, it narrows down the ancestry to duplicates even further.
By the time you get past 4th generation, the chances are starting to get a lot higher that you have duplicate ancestors. So this is the maximum possible number of ancestors.
Yep. My parents are distantly related to each other from way, way back. I mean really distantly related. Like 12th cousins or something.
It's not at all uncommon for people whose ancestors arrived in the country before 1800.
Yeah, it boggles my mind to think about family trees because they eventually collapse on themselves.
I’ve been a genealogist since my teens and I’ve heard the same thing from the professionals, that’s it’s inevitable for one to have duplicate ancestors. Which is true in my family, too. On my mom’s side they lived in the same county or neighboring county since 1818 and, most with large families, many of the family married 3rd or 4th double cousins. On my dad’s side, one 1700s ancestor’s daughter-in-law was her cousin’s daughter.
And, tracing back to Adam and Eve, it narrows down the ancestry to duplicates even further.