re: #172 HappyWarrior

What’s interesting to me and partially because I do it is what hertiage people emphasize.

Yup, that is something that I’ve noticed too.

Here are the biological facts (assuming no in-breeding):

You have 2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great grandparents
16 great great grandparents
32 great great great grandparents

That takes us back just to the early 19th century. Go back 10 generations and you are at 1024 ancestors, and so on.

Yet people will pick one particular belief (and it usually is just that - a belief - with little evidence) about where they “come from” and emphasize that.

It’s sort of like picking pizza toppings - has little to do with the essence of “pizza” and a whole lot to do with the person doing the ordering.