In reply to Descent from fictitious people One day you’ll be the fictitious one. Will there be any proof that you existed? reply
In reply to Nobody is your half cousin - Two people are first cousins if their parents are full siblings. However, they can be a half-cousin in their two parents are half siblings. The full...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin Nobody is your half cousin - any cousin we have is going to have blood of somebody NOT related to us. They are cousins because we have shared ances...
In reply to I would say that proving An excellent riposte. reply
In reply to Thanks for the info cuz :) First of all, you don't know your cousins around the world. That's an exaggeration. Second of all, don't say "May I ask a question?" and just go ahead...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin My simulator starts with 10000 people. They randomly pair up and have up to 5 children per family. Each generation is randomly culled down to 10000...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin In the case of French-Canadiens, where between 1630-1763 less than 10,000 exclusively French emigrated, forming the entire population, what would b...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin The majority of Europeans would have a common Ancestor in "Attila the Hun", as in, he's one of their great grand pappy's. Attila's Ancestry goes ba...
In reply to My wife & I are 0.8% related- how many generations apart? 23andMe will give you an estimated relationship when you display a relative. At 0.8% that's typically 3rd to 4th cousin...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin After two separate DNA tests (23&me and My heritage) we found out we were 0.8% related. We also have very much the same ancestry. We are both 50.6%...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin What are the chances that anyone of us are a direct descendent of William the conqueror? I would say that it’s 100% especially if you are Caucasi...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin So everyone who lived 1000+ years ago is my great-great-great-...-grandparent?! And yours too?! reply
In reply to The world Well, not *nobody*. Less prevalent than now, perhaps- but there were Chinese and Ethiopian legionaries in the Roman army. reply
In reply to What are the odds? Unless your family fell out of the sky, the chance of being descended from someone in the 16th century is 100%. If you mean a particular person, well, the mat...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin all the presidents are related 18 generation cousins incuding obama, trump and hillary. what are the chances of that? reply
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In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin If we go back to lets say, 5 or 6 Thousand years ago aren't we getting at what most people are wanting to know? Are we are all related? Going back ...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin So there was a person 17 generations ago that was a common ancestor to both Native Americans and the indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea? Where ...
In reply to Thanks for the info cuz :) But remember, only a tiny fraction of your relatives will share your last name. And that was in the traditional "take dad's last name" world, where le...
In reply to Everybody is your 16th cousin Excellent blog and additional comments from my cousins all around the world. :) May I ask another question? Thank you. If we add the factor of nam...