i.e. one of his sixteen (but possibly fewer) grandparents is James Garfield. I think it’s easy to have a little tunnel vision when talking about more distant ancestors.
Guessing from the hostile tone of your response that my own tone was badly conveyed. I was just making a general observation that we seem to automatically treat relatively distant ancestors with the same significance as grandparents. I do the same.
i.e. one of his sixteen (but possibly fewer) grandparents is James Garfield. I think it’s easy to have a little tunnel vision when talking about more distant ancestors.
Is one of your 16 great grandparents a president? Are you contributing something to the world millions have enjoyed?
Typically one has eight great-grandparents.
And yes, thank you for asking.
Guessing from the hostile tone of your response that my own tone was badly conveyed. I was just making a general observation that we seem to automatically treat relatively distant ancestors with the same significance as grandparents. I do the same.