From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Jul 4 12:57:08 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k64Iv8jb026290; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:57:08 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k64IuxN5030859 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:56:59 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k64GJnFI013438 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:19:49 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k64GJn1j013437 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:19:49 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k64DQMFI012923 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:26:22 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k64G3L2W021942 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:03:21 -0600 X-Envelope-From: LOISTUR@aol.com Tue Jul 4 10:03:20 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k64G3Kjb021931 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:03:20 -0600 Received: from imo-m23.mail.aol.com (imo-m23.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.4]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k64G3FqX010354 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:03:15 -0600 Received: from LOISTUR@aol.com by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.1bf.6e0feae (65098) for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:03:09 -0400 (EDT) From: LOISTUR@aol.com Message-ID: <1bf.6e0feae.31dbeb3d@aol.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:03:09 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5026 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] RE: the shallow roots of our family tree I tried working it out and came up with the number of people I descend from in BC, give or take some years due to different ages of parents when giving birth. Maybe some mathematician can tell me if I'm in the right ballpark. It really isn't important since I think we all descend from Adam and Eve. 1: 1 my great granddaughter 2: 2 parents (my granddaughter) 3: 4 grandparents (one of which is my daughter) 4: 8 great grandparents (one of which is me) 5: 16 gg grandparents 6: 32 ggg grandparents 7: 64 gggg grandparents 8: 128 ggggg grandparents 9: 256 gggggg grandparents 10: 512 ggggggg grandparents about 1700 AD 11: 1,024 gggggggg grandparents 12: 2,048 ggggggggg grandparents 13: 4,096 gggggggggg grandparents 14: 8,192 ggggggggggg grandparents 15: 16,184 gggggggggggg grandparents 16: 32,368 ggggggggggggg grandparents 17: 64,736 gggggggggggggg grandparents 18: 129,472 ggggggggggggggg grandparents 19: 258,944 gggggggggggggggg grandparents 20: 517,888 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents about 1400 AD 21: 1035,776 gggggggggggggggggg grandparents 22: 2071,552 ggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 23: 4143,104 gggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 24: 8286.208 ggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 25: 16,572,416 gggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 26: 33,144,832 ggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 27: 66,289,664 gggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 28: 132,579,328 ggggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 29: 265,158,656 gggggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 30: 530,317,312 ggggggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 31: 1,060,634,624 gggggggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 32: 2,121,269,248 ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents 33: 4,242,538,496 gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg grandparents BC Lois Selby Turner