Bill wrote:
> I realize that this comment and question is not on the topic of Legacy
> BUT as I read all of your emails many tell of a data base of
> 10,000--20,000-- even 30,000 individuals in your database with Legacy.
> For myself I go back 8 generations for my bloodline 14 generation with
> my mother's family, and 9 generations with my wife's side of her family
> with both parents. This includes all children within each generational
> family. And I have only tops 670 individuals. Yes, I have not expanded
> on all 13 children of my 4th great grand father. just my bloodline.
Bill, if you go back one generation to your parents thats 2 people;
2 generations 4, so the number of people in a generation is 2 raised
to the power of the number of generations, or 2^n in math/computer
symbols. If you've gone back 8 generations on one line thats 256
people and if you've gone back 9 generations on another line, that's
512, which is 768 people without adding any siblings of these folks.
So I don't see how you could have gone back that many generations
on all your lines and have only 670 people in your file, and of course
it would be many more if "all children within each generational family"
were included. Perhaps you have some lines that don't go all the
way back for 8 and 9 generations?
jr
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