There was an article in the BYU Alumni magazine about Brian Crane, the creator of the comic strip called Pickles. I read this one and it made my family history nerd happy. I couldn't find it online so I have to just type what it says. Enjoy!
Grandfather: Have you been a good by lately, Nelson?
Nelson: Yeah, I guess.
Grandfather: Good. A lot of people are counting on you.
Nelson: Like who?
Grandfather: Let me put it this way... You have two parents, each of them had two parents, and they had a total of four parents. Those are you grandparents, of which I am one.
Then there were eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great grandparents, and thirty-two great-great-great grandparents.
If you figure twenty five years between generations, only five hundred years ago there were, let's see...
... One million, forty eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-six people all involved in the creation of YOU.
That's a lot of folks counting on you to make something of yourself, boy. So... DON'T LET US DOWN!
Nelson: Geez! Peer pressure is nothing compared to ancestor pressure!
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