17/03/2025
To be born, we need:
2 Parents
4 Grandparents
8 Great-grandparents
16 Great-great-grandparents
32 3rd-great-grandparents
64 4th-great-grandparents
128 5th-great-grandparents
256 6th-great-grandparents
512 7th-great-grandparents
1024 8th-great-grandparents
2048 9th-great-grandparents
In just the last 11 generations, 4,094 ancestors were needed— all of this within approximately 300 years before you or I were born!
Stop for a moment and think...
Where did they come from?
How many battles did they fight?
How much hunger did they endure?
How many wars did they witness?
How many hardships did our ancestors survive?
On the other hand, how much love, strength, joy, and encouragement did they pass on to us?
How much of their will to survive did each of them leave within us, allowing us to be alive today?
We exist only because of everything each of them went through.
