you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

You know how the Mormons keep genealogy records for, like, everyone they possibly can? I am American so we may be more mixed than some places but those records went back pretty far and out in a lot of directions geographically. No overlap, lots and lots of people. I mean at some point mathematically it's more people than the population of the world so you have to be right but they had 20 or more generations in some directions, it was thousands of people on that chart going back hundreds of years, it was crazy.

I also did notice that most of my ancestresses did marry between 25-28, not 14 as Little House on the Prairie had me believing before.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    25-28 sounds about right for men. For women that seems way to old, 14 is still very young, but around 20-23 was common.

    Also keep in mind that a church could bend the truth and just not publish the overlap. You can have a few branches going way back and just be unknown on those that overlap with them.

  • source
  • parent