Actually, going back as far as 12 generations, I've documented 8 different sets of cousins in my ancestry, including my parents who were 8th cousins. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:35 PM, "Ann Avery Hunter" <Sanseann@triad.rr.com> wrote: > 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. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have forgotten the extrapolations, but if every person on earth only one ancestor, two grandparents, four great-grandparents and so forth in back in time, it would turn into something like 20 trillion people living on planet Earth in the year 1400. Yes we are all related, including to ourselves. On Oct 19, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > Actually, going back as far as 12 generations, I've documented 8 different sets of cousins in my ancestry, including my parents who were 8th cousins. > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:35 PM, "Ann Avery Hunter" <Sanseann@triad.rr.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message