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According to geni.com[1], he is actually my 31st great grandfather.

Anonymized the first part of my line:

You → ******** your father → ******** his mother → ******** her mother → ******** her father → ** Johansen his father → Johan Grove Kristoffersen his father → Ingeborg Catharine Jentoft Henrichsdatter Klæboe his mother → Henrich Johan Hansen Klæboe her father → Maren Hansdatter Glein his mother → Margaretha Johansdatter Grøn her mother → Margrethe Christophersdatter Darre her mother → Kristoffer Bjørnsen Bjørnsen her father → Bjørn Rolfson Darre his father → Maren Bjørnsdatter his mother → Johanne Mattisdatter her mother → Margreta Johannesdatter Kruckow her mother → Anne Ludvigsdatter Barsebek her mother → Magdalena Svare her mother → Adelus Eringsdotter Erlingsdtr Tolstad, Hildugard her mother → Elin Jonsdatter Hildugard Tolstad her mother → Sigrid Erlingsdotter Bjarkøy her mother → Elin Thoresdatter Bjarkøy her mother → Ingebjørg Erlingsdatter Bjarkøy her mother → Erling Alvsson Tornberg her father → Ingeborg Bårdsdotter Rein his mother → Bård Skule Guttormsson Rein her father → Sigrid Torkjellsdotter Fugl his mother → Hallkatla Sveinsdatter Av Aurland her mother → Ingerid Svendsdatter of Denmark, Queen Consort of Norway her mother → Sweyn II Estridson, King of Denmark her father → Princess Estrid Margrethe (Margret), Of Svendsdatter his mother → Sweyn I "Forkbeard", king of Denmark, Norway & England her father → Harald "Blue Tooth", king of Denmark his father

[1] https://www.geni.com/people/Harald-Blue-Tooth-king-of-Denmar...


I guess that’s yet another reason to make a HN account.


A huge amount of people have him as their 30th-something great grandfather.

Somewhere in the ballpark of (average # children that grow to adult age per family) ^ 31


This starts to fall apart because of overlap -- for most of those people, he's thousands of their 30th-something great grandfather, not just one ancestor.


> This starts to fall apart because of overlap

AKA pedigree collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse


2^31 is already 2 billions ... And the average # children has to be higher


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