I was always intrigued that a Revolutionary War General, Israel Putnam, was supposedly my 7th. Great Grandfather. Thought I was special until I did the math. Assuming all direct offspring survived to have offspring, more than 800,000 thousand people could claim the same lineage today. Add indirect ancestry, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc. and that number soars exponentially. But, of course, all didn't have offspring, so I guess I am special. Jerry Vorpahl Sacramento, which Twain called, "Land of eternal summer."