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Subject: [GenChat-L] Fwd: Edgertons and Frazier, and the Human Family
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 21:11:47 EST

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On 04/02/98 00:34:50 you wrote:
>
>Things occasionally catch my eye for odd reasons. I was
>reading down my list of mail today. I am currently working
>on web pages for a group called the Appalachian Writers
>Association. I'm currently doing lists of books available
>by Appalachian Writers. One of them is Clyde Edgerton and
>one is Charles Frazier. One wonders if they are related....
>Barbara

Hi Barbara,

I found Clyde Edgerton in my records but not Charles Frazier. In a
larger sense they are related. I have done enough genealogy over 25
years that I can safely say that all of us who have English ancestry
of any sort and even most west Europeans, are related within 10
generations. These are probably related even closer. I would guess in
about 7 or 8 generations. I could find nothing in my records to show an
absolute relationship. Nevertheless if you take all your 1028 grandparents
at 10 generations, and I take all my 1028 grandparents, the odds of these
being totally different (disjoint sets) is astronomically large. Somewhere
there is at least one overlap and maybe several, even dozens.

If we carry this argument to say the year 1250 or so, the number of
grandparents that each of us has is about 256,000,000. This is the total
population of the world at that time. Thus we start having multiple
relationships upon multiple relationships. Statistically we would descend
from the entire population of the earth, if there were no multiple
relationships (which there are really millions of). We can carry this to
extremes. I once calculated this out, for a talk, to the Biblical beginning
of the world, though man surely existed before that. At about the time we
attribute to Adam, we would have more grandparents than there are atoms in
the universe. Clearly we are extremely closely related. There is only one
real family, the Human family, and we are all just working on parts of it.
If we only realize this in our relationships with those around us, we might
have more brotherhood in the world, for absolutely we are all brothers and
sisters. The Great Genealogist in the Sky knows this very clearly, since
He laid this all out, putting us all in the various positions on the tree.
If only we could see this tree in the seemingly unrelated forests in which
we find ourselves.

Best Wishes, Bruce Wood

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