Posted by JerryS on January 19, 2015 at 22:12:52 from (98.80.103.253):
In Reply to: Pondering... posted by Greg1959 on January 19, 2015 at 18:50:57:
If you continue the 2, 4, 8, 16 progression on backward, you will find that by the time you reach the 20th or 21st generation, you will be talking about a million or more direct ancestors.
In researching his family geneology for his book "Roots", author Alex Haley journeyed to Gambia in Africa to follow a lead that the primary character in his lineage, Kunta Kinte, had been captured into slavery there in the 1600s. He traveled for days into the back country to a remote village where he learned that there was an old man who served as a living repository of all his tribe's history.
The "griot", as he was called, had no other responsibility in the tribe than to be the "rememberer", as the tribe had no written language. He had started learning the tribal history as a young boy, and he was in turn training a succession of younger men and boys to take his place.
At Haley's request, the griot began "remembering", starting at the present and working backward. He couldn't fast-reverse---he had to recite the whole thing. He droned on with an incredibly detailed listing of marriages, children and deaths, as well as relevant events that had occurred in the lives of the people--somewhat like a reading of Chronicles I.
After many hours, the griot finally receded back into the 17th century and stumbled into the account of the day Kunta Kinte, Haley's ancestor, was captured and sold into slavery. The details provided by the old griot matched the sparse shreds of information Haley had already dug up.>The book was an interesting read, but that one thing was the most fascinating part of it to me.
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