EMail: My ‘handle’, “frankmac”, has confused a few people, who know the spelling of McAninch, |
“McA”, not “Mac”. In our family, my father has always been called “Mac”, and the children used |
their given names. Later, after college, working on submarine guidance and navigation for the Navy |
(middle Cold War), there were six Franks on the project team, and Margie, the Director’s secretary, |
started calling me ‘Frank Mac’. Today, it still emphasizes the correct pronunciation, “MAC-an-inch”, |
and I still like it better than ‘frank4568’ or some other arbitrary or random AOL or MSN assignment. |
Genealogical Descent: If we allow 33-1/2 years for each generation, 15 generations take us back to |
1400, and you would have 32,768 ancestors in that generation. Going back 12 more generations, or |
another 400 years and you would have 67,108,834 ancestors in the 27th generation (ca. 1000 A.D.). |
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In 1066, at the Norman conquest of England, the population was about 1.7 million people, and if you |
are of English or Scots ancestry, you are descended through a number of these different lines. The |
mathematical probability is that you descend 40 different ways from everyone living in Great Britain. |
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If you are of Irish ancestry, there were about 350,000 persons at that time, and you are probably |
descended from every person living in Ireland, at that time, through 200 different lines from each one. |
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First one to work up the charts wins! |
New Math: Would a dozen McAninch’s be called Mc-A-Foot? (Mc-A-Foot = 12 x Mc-An-inch?) |
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McAninch Family History NL, v.XII.n.2 April 2004 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2004-16 |
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