In order to be born you needed;
2 parents
4 great 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 eighth great-grandparents
2048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4094 ancestors over the last 400 years.
Think for a moment – How many struggles? How may battles? How much ambition and desire? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future you are living in right now? How many years spent working to make tomorrow better?
wow!
Love it!
This is humbling.
This is really something to stop and think about. Wow!
Thanks for sharing, Larry.
Wow, this was really powerful.
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A week later and I’m still thinking about this one. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in my own story but there are so many that went before. Thanks Larry for this one. I’m going to save it in my in box and re-read it from time to time when I get caught up in my own “stuff”.