Generation> >: 01 > 1 totals YOU
02 > 2 - 3 parents
03 > 4 - 7 grandparent
04 > 8 - 15 gr grandparents
05 > 16 - 31 gg grandparents
06 > 32 - 63 ggg grandparents
07 > 64 - 127 gggg grandparents
08 > 128 - 255 ggggg grandparents
09 > 256 - 511 gggggg grandparents
10 > 512 - 1,021 ggggggg grandparents
11 > 1,024 - 2,045 gggggggg grandparents
12 > 2,048 - 4,093 ggggggggg grandparents
13 > 4,096 - 8,189 gggggggggg grandparents
14 > 8,192 - 16,381 ggggggggggg grandparents
15 > 16,384 - 32,765 gggggggggggg grandparents
16 > 32,768 - 65,533 ggggggggggggg grandparents
17 > 65,536 - 131,069 gggggggggggggg grandparents
18 > 131,072 - 262,141 ggggggggggggggg grandparents
19 > 262,144 - 524,285 gggggggggggggggg grandparents
20 > 524,288 - 1,048,573 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents
So in 20 generations over a million people have participated in making you what/who you are. No wonder genealogy is endless.
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JUST IN FROM THE HEAD OFFICE: These are actual queries received by a Family History Department:
Our 2nd great grandfather was found dead crossing the plains in the library. He was married 3 times in the endowment house and has 21 children.
He and his daughter are listed as not being born.
I would like to find out if I have any living relatives or dead relatives or ancestors in my family.
Will you send me a list of all the Dripps in your library?
My Grandfather died at the age of 3. We are sending you 5 children in a separate envelope.
Documentation: Family Bible in possession of Aunt Merle until the tornado hit Topeka, Kansas, now only the Good Lord know where it is . . .
The wife of #22 could not be found. Somebody suggested that she might have been stillborn -- what do you think?
I am mailing you my aunt and uncle and 3 of their children.
Enclosed please find my Grandmother. I have worked on her for 30 years without success. Now see what you can do.
I have a hard time finding myself in London. If I were there I was very small and cannot be found.
This family had 7 nephews that I am unable to find. If you know who they are, please add them to the list.
We lost our Grandmother, will you please send us a copy?
Will you please send me the name of my first wife? I have forgotten her name.
A 14-year-old boy wrote: "I do not want you to do my research for me. Will you please send me all of the material on the Welch line, in the US,England and Scotland countries? I will do the research.
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Humor only genealogists can appreciate:
My family coat of arms ties at the back....is that normal?
My family tree is a few branches short!All help appreciated
My ancestors must be in a witness protection program!
Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!
My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets.
How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE??
I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap
I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged
I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me ?
If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help
Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem, leads to two more!
It's 1998... Do you know where your-Great-G. Grandparents are?
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control
A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots
A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away
After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted
Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it
Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples
Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree?
FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records.
Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but I love it
Genealogists are time unravelers
Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... I seek!
Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people
"Crazy" is a relative term in my family
A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor
I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few
thousand
I Should have asked them BEFORE they died!
I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days
I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNEflower
Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress
Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality
Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools!
It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a thief.
Many a family tree needs pruning
Shh! Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears.
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors!
That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN!
I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes
Genealogists live in the past lane
Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots!
Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree
Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool!
Always willing to share my ignorance....
Documentation...The hardest part of genealogy
Genealogy: Chasing your own tale!
Genealogy...will I ever find time to mow the lawn again?
That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards
I researched my family tree... and apparently I don't exist!
SO MANY ANCESTORS.................SO LITTLE TIME!
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I went searching for an ancestor,
I cannot find him still.
He moved around from place to place
and did not leave a will.
He married where a courthouse burned,
he mended all his fences.
He avoided any man
who came to take the U.S. Census.
He always kept his luggage packed,
this man who had no fame,
And every 20 years or so,
this rascal changed his name.
His parents came from Europe.
They should be on some list
of passengers to the U.S.A.,
but somehow they got missed.
And no one else in this world
is searching for this man. So,
I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can.
I'm told he's buried in a plot,
with tombstone he was blessed;
but the weather took engraving,
and some vandals took the rest.
He died before the county clerks
decided to keep records.
No family Bible has emerged,
in spite of all my efforts.
To top it off, this ancestor
who caused me many groans,J
ust to give me one more pain,
betrothed a girl named JONES!
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W A R N I N G . . . . . . . Genealogy Pox (very contagious to adults)
SYMPTOMS: Continual complaints as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries, courthouses and internet. Has compulsion to write letters and send e-mail. Swears at mailman when he doesn’t stop and leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse and mumbles to self. Has strange far away look in eyes.
TREATMENT: Medication is useless. There is no known cure. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a quite corner in the house where he or she can be alone.
REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is . . . the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she seems to enjoy it. |
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