I've shown on this blog that I descend from several New England families more than once such as the Coffin, Hayes, Hull, Heard, Hall, Clough, and Burnham families. We all descend from the same people multiple times thanks to the theory of ancestor collapse. Ancestor collapse posits that at some point back in time, the amount of people you need to descend from will be more than the world's population. King Charles II descends from Queen Victoria twice, once from his mother and once from his father. He is the poster boy for ancestor collapse. By the time he has 1,o24 ancestors there are only 500 different people filling the 1,024 slots.
My Slovak ancestors work the same way except that the records don't go back far enough for me to prove double descents. I have two Chodur lines that marry each other and likewise two Valuch lines that marry each other. I have two Szowiss lines that would make my great-great-grandparents cousins and two Zabka lines that would make my grandparents distant cousins. Other double families include the Krc, Holic, Witek, and Valassek families. This is not surprising. I have four Slovak great-grandparents that came from four adjoining villages. My Sobotiste ancestors have Vrbovce roots and my Tura Luka ancestors have Myjava roots. People were marrying from the neighboring village.
I would like to connect one of those families to show double descents but the records just aren't there. My Chodurs could be first cousins or fifth cousins. No way to know.
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