One small caveat: Nobody on earth probably really has 64 completely different 4th great grandparents. There is always the "double cousin" effect. Minor point, but just sayin'.... [Having said that, I know of only once case where that applies to me that far back. Perhaps I should say when it gets to 5th great-grandparents.] For the Northern Neck crowd, and their propensity to marry their cousins, that number is even lower. On Oct 19, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > Some math: if your NN ancestors were 6 generations back, that's where your 64 4G grandparents are

It was a way of life in Virginia. Two sets of my great-grandparents were cousins, one in Louisa Co. and one in Henrico. Ann -----Original Message----- From: Craig Kilby Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:03 PM To: va-northern-neck@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Autosomal DNA Project forNorthern Neck Families One small caveat: Nobody on earth probably really has 64 completely different 4th great grandparents. There is always the "double cousin" effect. Minor point, but just sayin'.... [Having said that, I know of only once case where that applies to me that far back. Perhaps I should say when it gets to 5th great-grandparents.] For the Northern Neck crowd, and their propensity to marry their cousins, that number is even lower.