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You wrote: "have you ever computed a relationship over 60 generations? That's the part I think should be changed.
Why do you think that needs to be changed, Kim? At an average of 25 years per generation, 60 generations brings one to 1500 A.D. which is quite reasonable for most people, I would suppose. If one wishes to push beyond that, the vehicle is more apt to by the statistical analysis of mitochrondrial or Y-DNA test results. Which is far from exact, as some of us are now finding out, even at only a dozen generations.
Not even the helpful folks at my local Family History Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints presently advise trying to pursue one's pedigree past 1000 A.D.
And while my Brother's Keeper (6.1) would accept a negative date of 1 Jan -999999 without choking on it, dates prior to 1 Jan 210 A.D. are most emphatically NOT supported by it's reasonableness check. Therefore reliable data prior to that time might be a very moot point, and _documentable_ data even close to then is highly suspect, since original documentation requires literacy and much of the world wasn't really literate until later.
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