What happens when you invite everyone who are a part of your family through marriage and birth, invites everyone from THEIR families, for those individuals are your family as well, from marriage and birth, and THOSE individuals invite everyone from THEIR families through marriage and birth, and so forth?
You get everyone in the entire world going to one giant family reunion. Though figuring out all the branches of this family tree can be quite interesting. -- Anon Guest
"Did you know?" chirped Lynn, "Everyone born in Europe can claim a blood relation to King Charlemagne."
"Probably. It's been a long time since he was making babies," said Ma. "Those generations add up after a while."
"Are we related to anyone famous?" asked Lynn.
"Grug from the Stone Age," said Dad. "He invent fire."
"Da-a-ad... I'm serious." Only after those words had left her mouth, did Lynn realise she'd left a feed line for him.
"Hi, Serious. I'm Dad."
Lynn vented a noise somewhere between a groan and a scream.
"Give over," said Ma, looking for the right exit. "You've got the internet in your pocket, just look through the family tree for any interesting names."
"I don't even know half the names. History's not my special interest." Dad grumbled, but started messing around with FamTree. Pinching, zooming, and swiping. "Er. Ghenghis Khan?"
"Da-a-ad..."
"No, it's really there," Dad handed back the phone so Lynn could see. "Like a third of Asia's related to him... So it might be a Charlemagne thing."
Lynn played around with the app, looking at all the names that made little sense to her. Then she found three of them and screamed.
Ma nearly swerved off the road. "Lynn Kerrianne Smith! What the hell?"
"We're related to half the Q-T Boys! The best band in the world! I'm seventh cousin twice removed to Geri and Bob!" Lynn screamed again.
"Please tell me she has a mute button?" begged Dad.
"Dear..." sighed Ma.
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