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Bottesini said:
How about if first cousins married and lowered the pool of grandparents? Because then there would be six ancestors.
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now I have to put in a disclaimer: I am not even an irish.

Now you guys can proceed.
 
Beach girl said:
It really, truly isn't possible to be 1/3 anything. You always had two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grands, 16 great-great-grands, etc.

There is no way to get 1/3 (2/6) out of that. It's always going to be 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc., etc. You can add some of those fractions up, but they will never be divisible by 3.
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So a .33333333333333333333334 is not a third either?
 
too many my last :lol: I consider family too many relative I am pretty knew on my family I forget on name my family, my grandma teach me invite to new uncle to involve family worth good , I was glad of see hear positive I am execpt to grow family strong!

I remember my social worker said research expertiment to family lots of reason good deal! help better family relative!
 
posts from hell said:
So a .33333333333333333333334 is not a third either?
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No, because 1/3 is defined as a repeating decimal where it is equal to 0.33333-> goes on forever, the number "3" continues to infinity. What you presented is an approximate third and is not defined as a 1/3.
 
kokonut said:
No, because 1/3 is defined as a repeating decimal where it is equal to 0.33333-> goes on forever, the number "3" continues to infinity. What you presented is an approximate third and is not defined as a 1/3.
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In general discussion of family history I've never seen anyone go "I am EXACTLY 1/3 Irish."

Also, what do you get when you add .3333 three times, .9999 where did that .0001 go? Is that an approximate third, too?
 
posts from hell said:
In general discussion of family history I've never seen anyone go "I am EXACTLY 1/3 Irish."

Also, what do you get when you add .3333 three times, .9999 where did that .0001 go? Is that an approximate third, too?
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There is no missing ".0001" because it's a repeating decimal. It goes on forever. That's the beauty of math. The ".0000.....1" whatever, doesn't exist!
 
posts from hell said:
In general discussion of family history I've never seen anyone go "I am EXACTLY 1/3 Irish."

Also, what do you get when you add .3333 three times, .9999 where did that .0001 go? Is that an approximate third, too?
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I did see Michael Scott claim to be 2/15ths native american on "The Office". Of course that was the joke.
 
posts from hell said:
Are you also saying over the duration of like lets say 500 people that contributed to your being that you can't ever be 1/3 of something and 2/3 of everything else?


But, straightforward genealogy, it doesn't make sense
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You can get close if you are mostly mutt. :lol: j/k
 
AlleyCat said:
I've been doing extensive research on my ancestors. As far back as we can trace, my dad's side is 100% Swedish. We're stuck there because the records from 1600-1700 are all in Swedish and I can't read 'em !! :lol:

My mom's side is, paternally, as far back as we can trace 100% Norweigan, and maternally, a mix of Danish and French.

So I'm pretty much Scandinavian :)
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Yep, you've got a pretty pure bloodline going there.:giggle:
 
AlleyCat said:
Erk. The nitpicking already about numbers. If PFH wants to feel he's roughly a third Irish, let it be.
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And they say we get nit picky about Deaf ID.:laugh2:

Hey, it's my ethnicity...I will identify in any way I choose. Don't like it, oh well.
 
Bottesini said:
How about if first cousins married and lowered the pool of grandparents? Because then there would be six ancestors.
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Exactly. Not everything is as straight forward, all or nothing, black and white as some would like to reduce it to.
 
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