Genealogy Possibilities!

This is assuming an average of 5 children per family from about 1600 to about 1900, and 2 children from 1900 to present. In reality the average number of people who lived and had children was probably well above 5 before 1900. Work on your genealogy... See if GW is a cousin!

George Bush descends from at least 2 Mayflower passenger males. He therefore has at least 2 lines of 14 generations in the USA. If only his cousins vote for him, he wins in a landslide!

Cousins Generations Descendants 1 2 X 5 2 10 X 5 3 50 X 5 4 250 X 5 5 1250 X 5 6 6250 X 5 7 31250 X 5 8 156250 X 5 9 781250 X 5 10 3906250 X 5 11 19531250 X 5 12 97656250 X 2 13 195312500 X 2 14 390625000 X 2 As you can see the potential cousins in the USA any person who has at least one line starting in the early 1600s in the USA is greater than the population of the country. Of course 3rd through 14th cousins will often be related more than one way which will reduce the total number of cousins.

Ancestors - No question about these numbers! Generation Ancestors Total Ancestors 1 2 2 2 4 6 3 8 14 4 16 30 5 32 62 6 64 126 7 128 254 8 256 510 9 512 1022 10 1024 2046 11 2048 4094 12 4096 8190 13 8192 16382 14 16384 32766