You know how these news stories are always telling us how the present US President is related to the first ones and how they are related to royalty... Well... Everyone is! They are no closer than the average person. The chart below gives you an idea how we are all cousins Sub Total Start with YOU 1st Your parents 2 2 2nd Your grandparents 4 6 3rd gr-grandparents 8 14 4th gr-gr-grandparents 16 30 5th gr-gr-gr-grandparents 32 62 6th fourth gr-grandparents 64 126 7th fifth gr-grandparents 128 254 8th sixth gr-grandparents 256 510 9th seventh gr-grandparents 512 1022 10th eighth gr-grandparents 1024 2048 11th nineth gr-grandparents 2048 4094 12th tenth gr-grandparents 4096 8190 So everyone has 8190 ancestors in 12 generations. And all the siblings of these 8190 are aunts and uncles. And all the children of these aunts & uncles are cousins. Imagine if you calculated back to the 20th generation You would have: 1,048,576 eighteenth gr-grandparents for a total of 2,097,150 direct ancestors ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vickie Buettner" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:08 PM > I've heard it said before, that after 12 generations everyone is > related. > No wonder we are all finding the same people in our "lines" here and > there along the way! > Great "Family" we have here though-I wouldn't trade this list for a > million others! > > Vickie (Franker) Buettner >