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How Many Ancestors Do You Have?

Each person, with exceptionally few exceptions, has two biological parents. Each person's parents has two parents, and their grandparents have two parents, and so on and so on.

This means that each generation that you go back into your family tree, the number of ancestors that you have doubles.

Great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents: (i.e., 7xg-gp's) 512 (cumulative: 1,022)

In fact, some of our ancestors are our ancestors on more than one line of our family tree. The technical genealogical term for this is "pedigree collapse".


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