re: #352 freetoken

10 generations is only about 300 years back, on average.

There wasn’t the sort of movement that we have these days, though. On one side I have Icelandic, which hasn’t had slavery since about 1200 or so, and I can actually trace that ancestry very well thanks to Icelands bizarre naming system. That side is virtually all icelanders, with a small influx of Swedes and Danes into Iceland. On the other side, I have Sephardic Jewish, and the history is slightly more muddled but there’s not really anywhere they could have lived that they owned slaves. It’s quite possible that some of my ancestors who were slaves were raped by their slave owners, I guess.

And you’re likely to have repeats in that 1024, especially when you’re dealing with small, insular communities like Sephardic Jews and Icelanders.