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How many Grandparents have you found?

Is that a realistic expectation yet?
Well, if you consider that the number of people who have taken autosomal DNA tests like Family Finder is greater than the number of people worldwide who have Ancestry subscriptions, then YES!
 
I have just been separating my direct line into a new tree ready for dna results, so it was quite simple to bring up an ancestor report.

1G GP - 8/8
2G GP - 16/16
3G GP - 24/32
4G GP - 24/64
5G GP - 8/128
6G GP - 6/256
7G GP - 4/512
8G GP - 4/1024
9G GP - 4/2048
10G GP - 7/4096
11G GP - 6/8192
12G GP - 4/16384

This may look impressive but is not, the report I used lists people that are not fully researched, so 3G GP has two missing surnames and the generation before has some as well, although most have marriage and death dates. In the 8 G GP two 3rd cousins married and that means that 11G GP and 12G GP line has people in twice, and one of the 12 G GP is just Agnes who was buried 23 November 1570. I only have her details from christenings of her children in the 1540's, her husband was John Grist and there are no dates for him, other than implied from the children's births.

It does mean though that I do not have 8192 11G GP's as one family is in there twice, and every generation before them is also smaller, but there is still enough work to do!
 
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