In researching my ancestry it is dawning on me just how wide a net will be cast even if one goes back only 10 generations. The scale becomes immense.

One interesting factoid is that by the time one gets 10 generations back one is looking at ancestors from whom one may have indeed received no genetic material! Some calculations have estimated that less than half your ancestors 10 generations back have actually contributed to your genome. This is the great lottery of life.

Ironically, one may be more likely to inherit the culture of ones ancestor than their genes!

This one goes out to the vast sea of ancestors, of which the importance of their existence spans time more so than molecular biology:

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