Heir raising moment -spooky or what ?!?

[pinefamily]

Now that is a good site,

That's quite spooky watching those figures changing every second, giving me goosebumps

I know the feeling. The first time I was shown that site, I thought it was a fake.

[..claire..]

I know, I've had to read everything to appreciate what I was seeing.

I'ts frightening actually, to think everyone we know will end up on there for the briefest moment

[pinefamily]

To quote, "Time is fleeting...." 

[..claire..]

You beat me to it... I was looking for a quote on G**gle 

[pinefamily]

You beat me to it... I was looking for a quote on G**gle 

I think I saw the movie too many times.   

[..claire..]

I'm going to be singing that all day... 

Madness is taking it's toll

[coombs]

I think there must be about 70'000 million dead people, and 7'000 million living so yes the number will never balance out. Not going off topic here, lol, as it is a hair raising moment. Such a sheer amount of deceased.

[myluck!]

The numbers will never balance out.

As every person has two parents, and the parents have two parents making four grand-parents etc, etc , if we go back just 40 generations (at 25 years a generation that's just 1000 years) and assume no cousins marry each other you have 549,755,813,888 direct ancestors.

Apart from Adam & Eve, there will always be more people dead than alive.

I agree that there are more people dead than alive but for siblings, they have the same parents, grandparents, etc......
For first cousins they share half the same parents, grandparents, etc......

I have found since starting researching that many people are very possessive of their ancestors as if they are related to no-one else!

[pharmaT]

Sounds like my uncle.  My dad was named after their paternal grandfather and he was named after their maternal grandfather. He insisted that my Nana's family were not connected to me at all because they were "his family".