• evranch@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      My wife is literally from the other side of the world… So now you have me wondering who our last common ancestor could be and how many degrees removed we are.

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        My wife and I both have Scottish ancestry. Turns out there’s a chance a clan I descended from may have nearly genocided a clan she descended from, and if they had completed the job back in the day there’s a good chance she wouldn’t have been born. A few from her clan were let go to spread the word to others to not fuck around, and she’s descended from one of them.

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        Lol, that actually sounds like fun to investigate, and i’m a bit jealous. My SO and I both have family that lived in rural Arkansas up until the early-to-mid 1900s. We stopped asking questions after we discovered that because we don’t want to end up having to ask how close is too close. We’re definitely not 2nd cousins or anything, and it’s doubtful that our respective “rural Arkansas” is the same place. But my grandfather was an orphan, so that side of the family tree is particularly murky…

        Oh! Only tangentially related, but I have a second cousin out in Alabama who married her step-brother. They didn’t become step-siblings until they were in their late teens, so it’s not like they grew up together (well, not anymore so than kids the same age in a small town), but still… Roll Tide.

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      True, but considering I’m Jewish as far back as we can trace and there are no Jews in her ancestry as far back as she can trace, we’re pretty distant cousins.

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    10 months ago

    Only 10 generations away (about 100-150 years), you already have 1024 ancestors. 20 generations and you have 1.048.576. And 30 generations get you 1.073.741.824.

    In 1500 the world only had 450.000.000

    This example only shows the direct family line (parents of parents of…) and no descendents of brothers and sisters.

    And the world did not start 500 years ago

    Needless to say, we are all a bunch of inbreds

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    11 months ago

    Now, this is a man who knows how to marry his cousin!

    …wow. Didn’t know how much I would enjoy getting to say that until now. Elroy! I get it now!

  • Nobody@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    What an incredible time and labor intensive fetish. No kink shame though. You do you, chart-making cousin fucker.