A society colleague sent me this comic strip episode recently (I don't know when it was published) and I thought that it was funny:
Earl got his trusty calculator out (I just did too) and calculated 20 generations back and came up with 1,048,576 ancestors in that 20th generation back.
Earl says: "That's a lot of folks counting on you to make something of yourself, boy. so ... don't let us down!
Nelson walks away and says to the dog: "Geez! Peer pressure is nothing compared to ancestor pressure!"
I think I'll try this out on the grandkids...
Putting this into my own genealogical perspective, I have about 99.99% of those in that 20th generation to find! This work never ends, does it?
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And then there is my families' version. "We [surname] don't act that way"
Another great example of 'the work is never done.' Love it! ;-)
Yes sometimes we genealogists feel the ancestor pressure more than the peer pressure.
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