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everyone's related?

everyone's related?

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 2:14AM GMT
Classification: Query
i'm curious. is everyone related? i found out today my wife and i share an ancestor, 11th great grandfather for her and 13th for me. can any european descended person find relationships like this? we both have 23andme data and don't match at all. i saw that it's a genealogy game to trace random people to Charlemagne, between 30-40% of europeans can. i did that in 40 generations for both my wife and i, for grins and giggles.

so, take any two random people, statistically can you usually find a common lineage in 15, 20,40 generations?

Re: everyone's related?

Posted: 7 Jul 2011 4:21PM GMT
Classification: Query
Yep! Most native American Languages have a saying that means we are all related. Mitakuye Oyasin is Lakota Msit nokamaq is Lnu. We live in a fishbowl is space so how can we not be?

Re: everyone's related?

Posted: 3 Oct 2013 1:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
It's quite believable. There were far fewer people then than there are now so we have to trace back to a lot of common ancestors.
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