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Biggest ever family tree
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:30 pm
by BackInTex
My first thought was of Bob Juch.
Biggest ever family tree shows when cousins stopped having sex
It was thought that people in the west stopped marrying their close relatives in the 19th century, because improved transport meant that people were born further away from their families. But the family tree proved otherwise.
“Even though people started to be born further away from their families during the early 19th century, they were still marrying cousins for 50 years,” says Kaplanis. It seems the eventual decrease in inbreeding was more to do with cultural influences. “It just became less socially acceptable.”
Re: Biggest ever family tree
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 2:30 pm
by Bob Juch
BackInTex wrote:My first thought was of Bob Juch.
Biggest ever family tree shows when cousins stopped having sex
It was thought that people in the west stopped marrying their close relatives in the 19th century, because improved transport meant that people were born further away from their families. But the family tree proved otherwise.
“Even though people started to be born further away from their families during the early 19th century, they were still marrying cousins for 50 years,” says Kaplanis. It seems the eventual decrease in inbreeding was more to do with cultural influences. “It just became less socially acceptable.”
Actually the One Great Family database is bigger. I noticed the same thing in mine, but those in the South took a couple of generations longer than those elsewhere. "If your family tree doesn't fork, you might be a redneck."