Rarely is not never. It only takes one person to move to that isolated Scottish village in the past thousand years and they bring their ancestry with them. (View Post)

It doesn't need to either, the numbers are that big that all the possible combinations come to the fore. Nobility continued their records via primogeniture looking at their dad's, dad'… (View Post)

Indeed. Its complicated by the fact you're incapable of doing the damn maths and so are relying upon AI to do it for you. (View Post)

I didn't forget cousin marriage, I explicitly mentioned that we have the same people appearing in the ancestry many times over. However the odds of each of the hundreds of trillions of possible … (View Post)

No, he's not. You have hundreds of trillions of direct ancestors. 2^48 That's not "same family tree", that's not counting brothers and sisters, aunts or uncles or any other r… (View Post)