Wait...that might be epidemiology...
Posted on 02/02/2016 1:35:32 PM PST by jmaroneps37
I am completing my family tree which goes back 39 generations on one branch and 14 on another. I would like to explain to my grandchildren how unique the DNA combination they have is. We have roots to a canonized saint in our bloodline as well as an American Revolutionary War solider and a famous Irish revolutionary hero too. I just need to show the children how small the odds are of duplicating our family tree. Anyone that can help please Freepmail me, Thanks much
Potato!
Wait...that might be epidemiology...
How the Dickens did you go back so far? I can’t imagine reliable records being available prior to 1850.
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The answer is 42.
42
Ha!
I don’t know what they are but they ARE astronomical. My cousin and I have been doing geneology for years. We’ve traced my dad’s line back to Jamestown and my mother’s side back even further...1606 in Acadia, (they’re Cajuns) just tracing the father’s lineage is a feat, but add in the wive’s lines and both sides of their family and so on and in just a few generations you have thousands of entries, if you go wide enough. My cousin is doing a lot of that, but just thinking about it makes my brain hurt.
Tell them to buy a lottery ticket
I’m not sure how to attack this one, but I do know if you flip a penny 600 times there is a 100% chance you will get very bored.
When you are able to trace your ancestors back to Europe, the church kept vital records such as births, weddings, and deaths. Many of those records survive today.
The odds duplicating you family tree are ten times more likely than finding Hillary Clinton getting indicted or having sex with Bill Clinton.
The odds are also more likely than finding Obamas birth certificate as being legitimate.
My limit. 1+1+1 = 3
You are completely unique, so I’d say 1 in 7 billion or whatever earth’s population is.
Thanks but, I have to go fix my motorcycle right now....
And...I’ve been asked by my neighbor, Dr. Schroedinger, to see if I can catch his cat...in a box...
Quantum Funnies for the P-Chem crowd...
Royal families had to keep track of their members to enforce property claims and noble entitlements.
I can trace my family back to the 800’s.
THIRTY NINE generations? Holy cow. What is a generation, 25 -30 years? So we are talking about 1170 years ago? The closest I ever got to that length was my mother was born in Scotland with a last name of Lumsden and I found out there was a Lumsden clan in the late 1200s that was at the negotiation meeting with King Edward the 1 reps, the evil King portrayed in the movie Braveheart, obviously he didn’t hang them or kill them all off though like in the movie otherwise I probably wouldn’t be here. But I mean going back 1170 years, that’s in the 800s, thats the time of Pope Leo III who crowned Charlemagne.
Why? You grandkids don’t feel special enough?
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