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Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:14 am
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:14 am
Parents= 2
Grandparents= 4
Great-Grandparents= 8
2nd Great-Grandparents= 16
3rd Great-Grandparents= 32
4th Great-Grandparents= 64
5th Great-Grandparents= 128
6th Great-Grandparents= 256
7th Great-Grandparents= 512
8th Great-Grandparents= 1,024
9th Great-Grandparents= 2,048
10th Great-Grandparents= 4,096
Crazy to think about how people you share DNA with and how many people it took to create you. I have worked on my tree and I have made it to 6th great grandparents. It is so big I can not see all of it on ancestry. I need to transfer the names so I can see the entire tree.
Grandparents= 4
Great-Grandparents= 8
2nd Great-Grandparents= 16
3rd Great-Grandparents= 32
4th Great-Grandparents= 64
5th Great-Grandparents= 128
6th Great-Grandparents= 256
7th Great-Grandparents= 512
8th Great-Grandparents= 1,024
9th Great-Grandparents= 2,048
10th Great-Grandparents= 4,096
Crazy to think about how people you share DNA with and how many people it took to create you. I have worked on my tree and I have made it to 6th great grandparents. It is so big I can not see all of it on ancestry. I need to transfer the names so I can see the entire tree.
This post was edited on 5/29/24 at 8:55 am
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Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:16 am to Warmouth
This is why the idea of reparations is so retarded. I'm barely even related to my slave owning ancestors.
This post was edited on 5/29/24 at 8:23 am
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:18 am to Warmouth
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have worked on my tree and I have made it to 6th great grandparents.
How far back in time is this?
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:26 am to Warmouth
Your great great great great great grandfather, although still in Bumfrick Europe , was kind of sketchy in his views. Please apologize to the nearest black person and transfer 50% of your wealth. Thank you.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:28 am to Warmouth
The stars basically have to align for everything to have happened to ensure your own survival up to this point
Between wars/famine/being able to conceive and be birthed and survive infancy/diseases/weather.. it’s a miracle we’ve made it this far
I think about this often .
Between wars/famine/being able to conceive and be birthed and survive infancy/diseases/weather.. it’s a miracle we’ve made it this far
I think about this often .
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:38 am to Lsupimp
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Your great great great great great grandfather, although still in Bumfrick Europe , was kind of sketchy in his views. Please apologize to the nearest black person and transfer 50% of your wealth. Thank you.
My fifth great grandfather was fighting for the colonies in the American Revolution. Have to go back to my eighth great grandfather to find someone still in Europe. He sailed over here in the 1630s.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:41 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Have to go back to my eighth great grandfather to find someone still in Europe
You know who all 256 of your 7th great grandfathers are?
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:41 am to Warmouth
I researched my paternal family tree back to a 9th great grandfather born in France in 1601. But I just researched the direct line, like my grandfather's father, then his father, then his father, etc. I have the names of each of their wives (great grandmothers), but didn't do any research on any of them. Along the way in the line, the 9th grandfather moved to Nova Scotia as a young man. 5th great grandfather arrived in Louisiana in 1765, 2nd great grandfather was a CSA soldier.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:57 am to Dawgfanman
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How far back in time is this?
It varies due to what age you are, but for most Gen X people, a 6th GGF should be sometime in the early to mid 1700's. My fraternal 6GGF was born in 1743. I've gone back pretty far on my trees and I got back to my 23rd fraternal GGF back in the 1100's. Luckily for me he was a minor free lord in The Kingdom of Germany so his line was traceable pretty far back. Other lines in my family tree stop well short of that but Ive been able to go back to at least a 10th GGF on most of my main lines.
This post was edited on 5/29/24 at 8:58 am
Posted on 5/29/24 at 8:58 am to Dawgfanman
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You know who all 256 of your 7th great grandfathers are?
I followed my direct paternal line.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:03 am to Dawgfanman
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How far back in time is this?
1550 England
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:06 am to BayouBengal51
How did you do the research? I always wanted to know roughly where I came from and any other info I could get on great great great etc. grandparents.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:21 am to WillFerrellisking
Familysearch.org is a valuable and free way to discover your family tree. It's owned by the Mormon church, who house the largest database of genealogical records worldwide.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:24 am to Warmouth
My parents traced our ancestry back to the 1500s. Crazy how they found all those records all thru USA, Nova Scotia, and in Europe. Old churches have the best records of births, marriages and deaths. They worked on it with other siblings and by traveling and continued to put the story line together for the rest of the kids.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:25 am to Warmouth
There's one for my family that goes back to late 1700s. It does not include everyone but the common ancestor lived in the late 1700s.
This post was edited on 5/29/24 at 9:27 am
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:36 am to WillFerrellisking
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How did you do the research?
Find a grave.com. to start. Look up a grandparent. It will probably have their parents listed. Keep doing this until you gather as much info as you can. Really helps if most of your family is from the same area or state.
Then go to ancestory.com and plug in your info. Ancestry will help you find more relatives.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 9:44 am to Warmouth
Hey Cuz!
Almost everyone of European ancestry has a common ancestor within the past thousand years, and very likely sooner than that. And a probability of DNA from Charlemagne and Catholic saints or King John. I ponder this every day while sitting on my throne in the WC.
Almost everyone of European ancestry has a common ancestor within the past thousand years, and very likely sooner than that. And a probability of DNA from Charlemagne and Catholic saints or King John. I ponder this every day while sitting on my throne in the WC.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 1:17 pm to WillFerrellisking
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How did you do the research? I always wanted to know roughly where I came from and any other info I could get on great great great etc. grandparents.
First step is to talk to who is still around. I asked my parents and grandparents. A lot of old folk have a lot of stuff documented in family bibles such as DOB, Marriage Info, DOD, etc..
Then take that data and put it into somewhere like Ancestry and start compiling data. Ancestry and other sites like it will give you helpful hints, but you have to make sure you do your own research to back up what you find. A lot of times you will find a lot of fake info because, back in the day there was this phenomenon of people trying to tie their name to nobility in order to raise their social status. This was popular around the 1800's.
For example, on my fraternal great-grandmother's side, one of her ancestors tried claiming kinship back to some minor french nobility back to the 1500's. However the guy that was supposedly one of our ancestors never had children because he was killed in battle during a skirmish in Italy. He never married or had children so it was impossible we were from his line.
So be prepared that if you start the family tree journey, that you are prepared to do the research work that comes with it.
Posted on 5/29/24 at 1:22 pm to WillFerrellisking
Go on ancestry.com and create an account. Pay the fee. Put in your parents info, then their parents and their parents. From there should you should be able to get everything. Worked for me.
I have traced back all of my lines except for my dad’s grandmother. I could never find anything on her family. She is also my only great grandparent not born in Texas. (Arkansas)
I have traced back all of my lines except for my dad’s grandmother. I could never find anything on her family. She is also my only great grandparent not born in Texas. (Arkansas)
Posted on 5/29/24 at 1:22 pm to justaniceguy
I have found some super cool stuff
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