Do the math 2x2=4x2=8x2=16 and so on till you reach the 29th level. And of course if one person were missing..you or I wouldnt be here.
Exactly. If one's ancestry goes back into the early 1600s in New England, it is almost impossible to not descend from Edward the III, William the conqueror, and a whole lot of other royalty.
Also a much greater number of peasants.
Mine goes back through New England 1635-6 to the Temples of Stowe England. It is said the most powerful family in England at that time and later.
Of course, they were Puritans and things did not go to well for Puritans for a time in Old England. Yet they seemed to have survived having favored a Hanovarian rule in the stedd of the Stuarts.
Oh what a tangled web they weaved.