13,000,000 "Close" Family Members?!?!?

You've got to read this article.  An amazing amount of research combining traditional family research and a serious level of genetics involved!  Here's a link to "Nature - International Weekly Journal of Science". Please click "Continue reading" to activate the link.

Since there are so many people going back so many generations, I have to believe I have family in there somewhere. Nearly every genealogy class I hold in this area, I can usually find at least one cousin...distantly removed but a cousin nonetheless.  It's almost scary!

This chart is probably a little too short to do all the calculations...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] English: A chart illustrating the different types of cousins, including genetic kinship marked within boxes in red which shows the actual genetic degree of relationship (gene share) with 'self' in percentage (%). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

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