I see dead people - but that's a genealogy thing. Hand me a shovel, my files and a pen. 


Have you ever thought about the odds that you would be here reading this? Prepare yourself for a shock. Obviously, you have a mother and a father, and each of them had a father and a mother. This makes you having four recent ancestors, and so on. The following is a chart that reveals how many direct ancestors you had in the 1600′s, assuming births were from about 30 year old ancestors. You would have 1,024, 7th great grandparents.

1 (your self)1948

2 (parents) 1924

4 (grandparents) 1889

8 (great grandparents) 1863

16 (great great grandparents) 1840

32 (great great great grandparents) 1804

64 (great great great grandparents) 1765

128 (great great great great grandparents) 1737

256 (great great great great great grandparents) 1695

512 (great great great great great great grandparents) 1656

1024 (great great great great great great great grandparents) 1623