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.).

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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Volume XII, Number 2, April 2004

 

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