No matter how careful I try to be, it seems like there are inevitably things that others discover that need refinement, elaboration, or outright correction. The ancestry report uses 'Ahnentafel' numbering. This means that the numbers for a person's parents will be twice as large as that person's number. For example, if a woman's number is 15, her father will be number 30, and her mother will be 31. Her child will be number 7.
Every man is a descendant of every king and every slave that ever lived.
Obviously from a genealogy standpoint, such a claim is far too sweeping. But as a genealogist with a poetic bent, I love Gibran's saying because of the beauty of its expression and because of the truth it embodies. All of us do indeed contain the genes of high and low, rich and poor, and we experience the full range of the inheritance we hold within us. Besides, I really don't think Gibran was all that far off the mark, anyway. This web site produced 12 Apr 2001 by Personal Ancestral File , a product of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .