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batsofburden OP t1_ja4lhil wrote

Reply to comment by StarSpangledGator in There's been tens of thousands of generations of humans, yet even those just 3 generations back are already forgotten by most living humans. by batsofburden

I was thinking parents are one generation back, grandparents are two generations back, then beyond that most people know very little. If you interpret it differently, then just read my title as 4 generations back instead of 3.

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StarSpangledGator t1_ja4lweu wrote

Gotcha, my first thought reading was you were referring to generation like one century vs another. Thanks for clarifying.

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barfsfw t1_ja8vneq wrote

My cousins from both sides of my family and my dad and I have been working on a deep ancestry.com family tree. You can upload pics, news articles, obituaries, bios etc. With some time and teamwork, it's been a great experience learning about the people that you only ever met a few times at weddings and funerals. They all had a story and it's great to put that all together.

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batsofburden OP t1_ja8zlfw wrote

That sounds really fun. I guess I feel a bit too private to do something like that online, but it might be a cool project for offline.

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barfsfw t1_ja95zib wrote

You have a lot of control over who can see your stuff.

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