Lots of fun. D. ----- Original Message ----- From: <NYHuguenot@aol.com> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Tangled Roots (was: How I discovered I haveDutch ancest... > Barbara, > > Thanks for the definition, pedigree collapse. I have always > wondered what happens when you have two sisters who are your grandmothers > because > one's three grandsons married the other's three grand-granddaughters.. > Not to > mention all the children from second and third marriages who are now half > siblings and also cousins. > > This has been enlightening. Imagine what a reunion would look > like? > > Bob > > > > ************************************** AOL now offers free email to > everyone. > Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

If our roots didn't get tangled, then the number of our ancestors, after a number of generations, would mount to a physically impossible figure -- larger than the population of the world at the time. And remember the old song "I'm My Own Grandpa" see, e.g., http://www.onlyinternet.net/preceptor/rm118/grandpa.htm Hugh MacDougall, Cooperstown, NY