Isnt it cool to think about this, Each of us are related to someone 300 years ag

Question:isnt it cool if you really think about it? :P
heres the order:

You
Your parents
Your Grandparents
Your Grandparents parents
your Grandparent's Grandparents
and the list goes on...

Isnt it cool when you think about it? you could be related to George Washington or someone from that time :P

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: isnt it cool if you really think about it? :P
heres the order:

You
Your parents
Your Grandparents
Your Grandparents parents
your Grandparent's Grandparents
and the list goes on...

Isnt it cool when you think about it? you could be related to George Washington or someone from that time :P

It's very cool! It blows me away every time I think about it.

Here's another related thing that's even more incredible to me. The whole human race are cousins. We all have at least one common ancestor. She is referred to as "Mitochondrial Eve". Here's a quote from the Wikipedia page (See link under sources): "She is believed to have lived about 140,000 years ago in what is now Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania.". This has been determined by scientific analysis of the DNA of humans all over the globe.

For men, another common ancestor has been identified. He is referred to as "Y-chromosomal Adam". This was also determined via DNA analysis. Here's a quote from that Wikipedia page: "Y-chromosomal Adam probably lived between 60,000 and 90,000 years ago". This is only known for men because it's based on the Y-chromosome, which only men have.

There's a fantastic book that explains this and given lots of interesting results like this. It's << Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors >> by Nicholas Wade. See sources below for a link to that.

Scientists have determined that modern humans evolved in north-eastern Africa and something like 50 years ago, a relatively small group left Africa and slowly they spread out all over the globe and continued to evolve somewhat resulting in different races, etc.

It's amazing!

yeah, i sometimes read about my ancestors in books (i can trace my ancestory back to 1500), and it's really cool to imagine them being like me. it also got me a few scholarships!

It's kind of cool, I think my favourites are the ones from the 1800s, because it is far away enough it time to be interesting historically and if you are lucky there are also quite a few records around for that time so you will know what their occupations are etc...
I don't like it much when you only have a name and no info about an ancestor.
I've been into genealogy for a while and what strikes me the most is that they are all dead! Generation after generation of dead people that it will be our fate to join one day.......

It's awesome, in the proper sense of the word. If even ONE of those couples hadn't had the child that links you to them, you wouldn't even BE here today. In my family, there was a family with about 17 kids, and the last one was the next in line on my branch. If they had stopped at the child before, it would have literally changed history for our family.

My dad met my mother abroad too, and I met my fiance when he was studying over here. Imagine what things wouldd be like if they hadn't bothered to travel!

You're not just a product of your parents though, because it's down to thousands, and even millions of years of procreation. I think that's an incredibly humbling thought.

I don't want to find out I am related to some slimy creature that crawled out of the sea just because it couldn't cut it there. this means I am related to a Looser. would you want to find that out?

Things such as this are cool. FIVE generations ago for me my ancestors were born before or during the American revolution. My Grandparents were born in the 1860s (3 before the war began; my paternal grandmother was born during the Civil War).
Read this book: "Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes" by Steve Olson. On p. 47, he boldly asserts that EVERYONE alive today is descended from Nefertiti (through the 6 daughters she had with Akhenaton), from Confucius (through his son and daughter) and from Julius Caesar (through his illegitimate children; his wife, Julia, died during childbirth).
Think of THAT.

great piece of information!i like knowing...we're all family...