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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 2607007, member: 10613&quot;]Each generation that you go back, you have to double the amount of ancestors--1st generation you have 2 parents, 2nd generation 4 grandparents and it keeps doubling. So by the year 1080 (circa 29th generation) you have potentially 536,870,912 ancestors. However, so does everyone else. This number is so large it doesn&#039;t make sense though. Many people used to marry cousins in antiquity. There is an anecdote in genealogy that we are all related to Charlemagne. There has been research showing that once you go back 1,000 years, we are all related. <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/all-europeans-are-related-if-you-go-back-just-1-6C9826523" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/all-europeans-are-related-if-you-go-back-just-1-6C9826523" rel="nofollow">http://www.nbcnews.com/science/all-europeans-are-related-if-you-go-back-just-1-6C9826523</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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