re: More things I find interesting (historical)

Due to subsequent intermarriage between nobles, I am a descendant of both Robert Bruce and Edward III (and of course all of their ancestors). Robert has continued to be a traditional name in my family now for almost a thousand years. My father's name, grandfather's name, and great-grandfather's name. My cousin Robert was the first male child in my generation.

It is also reasonably likely that a majority of you are descended from British royalty somehow, but you just don't know it. Anthropologists and mathematicians calculate that most Americans of European descent share a common ancestor within the relatively short span of the past 1,000 years. Think about it - you have two parents, who each have two parents (your four grandparents), etc. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 12,384. In less than 20 generations (approximately 500-600 years) you have more than one million ancestors, while the known population decreases into the past.

Hello cousins!

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Your ancestor served as an endentured see any in Pennsylvania in the 1650's???

That is interesting since Pennsylvania was a Quaker settlement and the Quakers don't believe in slavery and generally frowned on wndentured servitude as well. The colony was open to all people so I supposed they allowed it but didn't practice it themselves

Mais, I don think dey got some Anglais in my family.

Ancestry is like an hourglass. Just as your pool of ancestors expands by doubling in each generation, your pool of descendants can expand at an even faster rate since your number of children is not limited to two.

Ex. My great-grandfather left 78 direct descendants at his death (including children, grandchildren, great and great-great grandchildren). Many, if not all, of those have continued to expand his family to the point that I could not estimate how many descendants there are in just some five generations.

This means that if you have children who continue to procreate and spread your DNA outside your gene pool of descendants, you may at some very distant point in time be the genetic ancestor of every living human.

Blows my mind that one man Hitler was so close to ruling the world and it was like 80 years ago.

Thanks for the facts. I was going off of memory as I have a lot of ancestry facts mixed together. You made me go review my own research.

It was Charleston, Mass where the Unity made port. They went from Mass to Va..

I have another GF who came in through Philadelphia around the same time.