Napa Valley Genealogical Society
and Library

In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great-grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 11 previous generations,
you've had a total of 4,094 ancestors over approximately 400 years!

How much happiness?
How many struggles?
How many difficulties?
How many expressions of hope for the future?

We can be grateful for what they went through
so that we could exist in this present moment...