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Obama and George W. Bush are 11th cousins
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One of my GGGG Grandparents was born in 1800.Maybe the difference between Icelandic and Mapuche (a culture south of the Inca that were the last to fall to the Spanish). (provided Icelandic ancestors didn't somehow stumble into North America, marrying thier 800th cousins and messing up the whole family tree.). Of course, it would happen with more isolated populations too.
Just food for thought (an intellectual exercise)... if a person had 4 descendants, and those had 4 each, and so on for each generation...
1st cousins - 16 (that's 4 siblings from the first set of parents, having 4 kids each)
2nd cousins - 64
3rd cousins - 256 (Guess how big my Polish side of the family is? It's at the 3rd cousin generation!It's a little less actually, since the 2nd and 3rd generation have been having less kids. My great-grandmother would be the first generation, a little over 100 years ago. Our family is about to split, giving the 2nd generation is dying off, and now the 1st cousins have their own families. In 8 more generations, we won't even know of each other.)
4th cousins - 1,024
5th cousins - 4,096
6th cousins - 16,384
7th cousins - 65,536
8th cousins - 262,144
9th cousins - 1,048,576
10th cousins - 4,194,304
11th cousins - 16,777,216 (This is 250 years - If you use the 1940s as his generation, then that's 1690AD. Right around when the colonies started.)
Sounds like a typical day in Off Topic.
He had 6 children who had children themselves (2 died)
43 grandchildren (that I've found)
128 great-grandchildren (that I've found, plenty of room for more). That takes me up to anywhere from the 1860s to past 1901, given the age variation from the large families.
There could easily be great-great and great-great-great-grandchildren of those great-grandchildren alive today.
Now, when you go back in time, obviously your ancestors increase exponentially... 2,4,8,16... Now, for somewhere like the UK (rather than America because of the high amount of immigration), you will reach a point where your numbers of ancestors will outnumber the whole population of the country, which means that you'll be your own cousin eventually. You'll have the same branch on different parts of your tree.
I frequent on a genealogy forum and there have been quite a few cases where they have discovered their partner is infact a distant relative. You do see coincidental overlaps, too. One of my mother's ancestors worked for a businessman, whose house was eventually turned into a school, which my dad went to. I also came across a third cousin on my dad's who went to university with my second cousin on my mum's side. There was no geographical connection other than England - opposite ends of the country, and yet they just happened to take the same course, and be the same age.
Also, as I stated in another thread, I don't like the black and white division that people make. Obama probably has more white blood than black.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
It's far enough to make cousins pretty much a meaningless word at that point.
Elta
我不会把这种
I have a question to anyone who knows how to do the math involved.
What is my grandmothers cousins granddaughter to me? 4th cousins?
What is my grandmothers cousins granddaughter to me? 4th cousins?
cubsfan6506
Got u
You want Presidential relations to toot your horn about? Ya can't beat me!! I'm related to, via my maternal grandmother....
WARREN G. HARDING!
And I am very proud to say so, in a perverse "bottom that! sort of way.
You think thats something My great uncle ran for congress and lost in 1970s compares to being president.
I'm related to Christopher Reeves.
cubsfan6506
Got u
I am christopher reeves.
You want Presidential relations to toot your horn about? Ya can't beat me!! I'm related to, via my maternal grandmother....
WARREN G. HARDING!
And I am very proud to say so, in a perverse "bottom that! sort of way.
I got the Adams Family.
amadeus
オ前ヨリ平静〜
Elta
我不会把这种
That's John Kerry Sr., Why are you so stupid?, you're what's wrong with america Gosh! 
jerkface
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Watch how you phrase your posts.
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jerkface Moderator Action: I assume this is in jest, but it doesn't come across very well.
Watch how you phrase your posts.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889
Elta
我不会把这种
That's John Kerry Sr., Why are you so stupid?, you're what's wrong with america Gosh!
Moderator Action: I assume this is in jest, but it doesn't come across very well.
Watch how you phrase your posts.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889
AWWWWWWW
That was a joke
West 36
Can count up to 4
I'm related to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Still waiting for that to pay off.
