Apropos of nothing, I've been doing some deep, serious genealogical research recently (i.e. plugging names of people in our family tree into Google) and putting my results into Geni, which is sort of a genealogical wiki project. And between what I've found and some research Josh did a while back, we've made a fair amount of headway on building back our family tree, finding some lines that go back 15 generations from Benji and Ava. What we've found, in summary:
Our parents: 2 of 2 (um, I'd hope so) Grandparents: 4 of 4 (um, see above) Great-grandparents: 8 of 8 2nd-great- (i.e. great-great-) grandparents: 12 of 16 3rd-great-grandparents: 14 of 32 4th-great-grandparents: 18 of 64 5th-great-grandparents: 18 of 128 6th-great-grandparents: 16 of 256 7th-great-grandparents: 14 of 512 8th-great-grandparents: 8 of 1024 9th-great-grandparents: 6 of 2048 10th-great-grandparents: 8 of 4096 11th-great-grandparents: 6 of 8192 12th-great-grandparents: 4 of 16384
Most interesting fact I didn't know before all this: My 10th-great-grandpa John Whitney came over from England to America in 1635, making him one of the first 30,000 or 40,000 American settlers. And his final son, my 9th-great-grandpa, was born in America in 1643, making him (I would guess) one of the first 10,000 or so immigrant children born in New England. His name? Benjamin Whitney. We'll pretend it was intentional.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
