I have traced my family back two thousand years. It’s amazing how many people I’m related to, and I haven’t found any disreputable characters yet !
Louis XVII was by all accounts a decent man. But the past caught up with him. His great grandfather Louis XIII was a mass murderer, a nasty piece of work.
You pay more than you think for the sins of the past.
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576................
That’s just 20 generations.................
No you havent
I've traced my ancestry back (and sideways, i.e., I've also tried to register collateral relatives, like the brothers and sisters of my g-g-g-g-grandparents, and their descendants) a mere six generations - and my "tree" nevertheless contains some 5,000 names. (I estimate that perhaps 20% have "fallen through the cracks" - but I'm no statistician: It could also be as much 80%.)
In that tree, I've found documentary evidence (newspaper reports dating back to the first decade of the 20th century, etc.) of all kinds of micreants. And those are only the ones I've found and documented. There are probably many more whose sins - though public knowledge at the time - I have been unable to "recover." And probably many, many more whose misdeeds were never discovered.
So I think it very bold of you to make such a claim!
Even only among your living third-cousins, I'm sure that you have one or two felons. If we extend our view to encompass your (living) 5th- and 6th-cousins, you are likely to have at least one murderer.
If you've really traced your family back two thousand years (which is patently ludicrous), then you should realize that the decendants of those original progenitors probably include something like 90% of all the people currently living in Europe and North America.
No "disreputable characters," really? It is to laugh!
Regards,