Six degrees of separation

:For the game, see Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. For the movie, see Six Degrees of Separation (film).

Genealogy

The term "six degrees of separation" is often distorted to indicate that six generations is the maximum extent to which everyone in the world is related. This has been disproved in numerous genealogy circles, since six generations translates roughly to 250 years. It has been calculated, more accurately, that the maximum relationship a person living in the modern age can be to someone else, anywhere in the world, is 30-32 generations removed which is roughly 1200 years of ancestry.

Related Topics:
Generations - Genealogy

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