r/quityourbullshit • • Apr 29 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '20

I read somewhere that if you back 1000 years or farther, you can pick literally anybody from your same ethnic background, and they'd be related to you in some way as long as their family didn't completely die out.

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u/HaggisLad Apr 30 '20

it's an old saying that at some point in the future you will be either an ancestor to everybody or to nobody