re: Got interested in genealogy recently, and this chart boggles my mind

Just late night thoughts. He let the women and children take the lifeboat, knowing he would never see them again.

A serious but noble choice.

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But if you keep going back the math becomes impossible with the human population that was in whatever country on whatever continent on this one planet your ancestors hail from.

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Are you arguing we don't exist or that your math is flawed?

At the 6th generation for example there wouldn't likely be 256 individual contributing to the outcome, at that level some people would be multiple ancestors on that line and might even also appear in the5th or 7th generation.

The Acadians in Louisiana have a very limited number of ancestors on my 6th generations several Individuals are ancestors on several lines. I've got Melancon's, Guidry's, etc. all over the place,

In even earlier ages without much movement the numbers of common ancestors would probably be staggering by todays standards you don't have much choice in tribes and villages.

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How the frick is involuntarily dying on a cruise some kind of noble, selfless decision in your mind?

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Maybe his ancestor was the dude playing the violin for everyone?

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many made choices to die before their time that you could live now

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For sure it was more common for women to sacrifice themselves to give birth. Hardcore people back then

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We're all cousins.

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We’re all African-American cousins, at that. Cradle of humankind and such.

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So if you go 12 generations back, it took 8,190 people surviving famine, disease, and war for you to be here

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That is why population growth will continue declining as LGBT populations increase, less children born in a natural way from a nuclear family.

So chances are in a family tree, a same sex couple will be a dead end branch unless they adopt, find a surrogate, or get their seed to fruit naturally before going homo or now get a lab to it.

But numbers going back are never absolute multiplying over time, think about previous generations and look at the number of children born. Now many modern couples average 0-2 children. Compare that to the days when you had 10 children or more in a family, then if the wife passed away from having a child, the husband would get a new younger wife and start the process all over again. Back then there was no TV or cellphones, you had to create your own entertainment.

This is why we are all related. Go back far enough there isnt enough people on the planet

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** this does not apply in Alabama