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From: "Ron Chenier" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Relationship (slightly O/T)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:46:36 -0400
References: <000301c6859d$24306970$6501a8c0@LindaHome> <16fb01c685a0$97f141b0$bd3c1d46@ron> <7.0.0.16.2.20060601133550.04c04630@acm.org>


Lee,

You are right, my math was also bad :( . If I carried on with Linda's
method it would be something like the following:

5th G-Grandparent - 128th
6th G-Grandparent - 256th
7th G-Grandparent - 512th
8th G-Grandparent - 1024th

Thank you both.

Cheers,
Ron Chénier
http://www.homestead.com/chesnay/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hoffman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Relationship (slightly O/T)


> Ron Chenier wrote:
>>Thank you very much Linda.
>>
>>According to this method of calculation my bloodline would therefore be
>>1/1424th Indian!!
>
> Uhh, no! You either got off somewhere or you have a typo. An
> 8G-grandparent would be in the tenths generation. And we're talking
> binary math here, so 2 to the 10th power is 1024 so you'd be 1/1024th
> Indian.
>
> For what its worth -
>
> Lee Hoffman/KY
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