I have a
cousin that is quite proud of her membership with the DAR (Daughters of the
American Revolution.) She traced her lineage
back through an obscure family name that is unfamiliar to this generation of our family.
A single
generation of a family is considered to be twenty years or five generations in
a century. From the American Revolution in 1776 to 1876
to 1976 to 2022 would calculate as twelve generations.
One
generation back you have two parents. Two generations back you have four
grandparents. Three generations back you have eight great grandparents – 16-32-64-128…
The numbers double with each preceding
generation
Twelve
generations back you have 4096 hereditary grandparents; 2048 heredity grandmothers
and 2048 heredity grandfathers.
As a DAR
member, your claim to fame is that twelve generations back one of your 2048
hereditary grandmothers was present in America in 1776.
Most black and white Americans with more than three generations in this country can probably trace their lineage back to 1776.
We are all sons
and daughters of the American Revolution.
From the ridiculous
to the absurd, people claiming a hereditary line to the Mayflower counting back twenty generations are picking one from a line of one million 1,000,000) heredity
grandparents.
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| WE ALL TRACE BACK TO A COMMON ANCESTRY WE ARE THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF AFRICAN EVE |
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