Starting with my two parents, I have:
- 4 grandparents
- 8 great grandparents
- 16 second great grandparents
- 32 third great grandparents
- 64 fourth great grandparents
- 128 fifth great grandparents
- 256 sixth great grandparents
- 512 seventh great grandparents
- 1024 eight great grandparents
- 2048 ninth great grandparents
- 4096 tenth great grandparents
- 8192 eleventh great grandparents
(Copied from Find-A-Grave member Mona Hura)
Intriguingly, the multiplication will somewhere stop and funnel back to two first parents, Adam and Eve.
Over the years I have noticed a generational pattern. The prior generation zeroes in on the next generation with both legitimate concerns and baseless fears. The next generation responds by perceiving both as baseless fears. That "next generation" then ages into "the prior generation" and zeroes in on the next generation with both legitimate concerns and baseless fears. And so on.
