I hadn´t seen this news, it is interesting. Here in Iceland it is quite easy to follow your ancestry, I can f.e. trace my ancestry back for more than 1000 years, to the first settlers of our nation. We also have an online tool to do it, called islendingabok.is. Most people here are related in the 8th to 10th generation, we used to be so few after the hardships of danish tyranny, lack of trade freedom, our own backwardness, and volcanic activity and subsequent colds.
One funny fact about Icelandic genelogy is that every icelander can trace his lineage to the last Catholic Bishop, that was executed in 1550 with his sons.
We regularly go to family gatherings, where the descendants of particular couples meet, often at their birth or the place they lived in the countryside. We often say that the purpose of these meetings is to know who you are not supposed to sleep with. But it is always as funny when you hear stories about when shit like that happens, especially if it happens at the family gathering. I heard one such story at my last party, so funny, so sad, in this case the perpretrator didn´t even know he was at a family gathering, he was dragged there by his parents and was shit-drunk the whole time.
Funny about the parties. Thanks for the input.