Here is a link to a historical question and its answer which fams of TNG might find interesting.
https://history.stackexchange.com/q...ficer-named-picard-at-the-battle-of-trafalgar
Of course Jean-Luc Picard might also know about ancestors who were not his patrilineal ancestors and who thus would hav eother surnames.
Assuming that Picard was borna bout 570 years after his ancestor at Trafalgar, he would have been born about 23 avverage generations since his ancestor was born. But maybe Picard's family had many successive ling genrations, so let's make it an even 20 generations.
Everyone has two parents, and every parent has two parents. So with every generation gap you go farther back, the number of postions for ancestors doubles. Having done this type of calculation many times before, I can tell you there are 1,024 posiitons for ancestors ten generation gaps back. Which means that there must be 1,048,576 positions for ancestors twenty generation gaps back.
Notice that I wrote positions for ancestors instead of ancestors. Any normal ancstry would include a lot of marriages between cousins considered to be distant but much closer than 18th cousins would be. So a number of Picard's ancestors should have married 2nd cousins, third cousins, 4th cousins,etc. Taht would reduce the number of separate biological persons who filled Picard's 1,048,586 ancestral positions 20 genrations back, becaome some persons would have been ancestors several times over.
Nevertheless, Picard should have had many, many thousands of adult male ancestors alive at the time of Trafalgar who potentially could have served on French ships there. Even more when you
consider how many boys served in the navies in those days so the ancestor didn't have to be an adult.
So PIcard's patrilineal ancestor in 1805, (or possibly a brother or cousin on the Picard side)., was not the only possible ancestor at tRafalgar that Picard might have been talkng about.
https://history.stackexchange.com/q...ficer-named-picard-at-the-battle-of-trafalgar
Of course Jean-Luc Picard might also know about ancestors who were not his patrilineal ancestors and who thus would hav eother surnames.
Assuming that Picard was borna bout 570 years after his ancestor at Trafalgar, he would have been born about 23 avverage generations since his ancestor was born. But maybe Picard's family had many successive ling genrations, so let's make it an even 20 generations.
Everyone has two parents, and every parent has two parents. So with every generation gap you go farther back, the number of postions for ancestors doubles. Having done this type of calculation many times before, I can tell you there are 1,024 posiitons for ancestors ten generation gaps back. Which means that there must be 1,048,576 positions for ancestors twenty generation gaps back.
Notice that I wrote positions for ancestors instead of ancestors. Any normal ancstry would include a lot of marriages between cousins considered to be distant but much closer than 18th cousins would be. So a number of Picard's ancestors should have married 2nd cousins, third cousins, 4th cousins,etc. Taht would reduce the number of separate biological persons who filled Picard's 1,048,586 ancestral positions 20 genrations back, becaome some persons would have been ancestors several times over.
Nevertheless, Picard should have had many, many thousands of adult male ancestors alive at the time of Trafalgar who potentially could have served on French ships there. Even more when you
consider how many boys served in the navies in those days so the ancestor didn't have to be an adult.
So PIcard's patrilineal ancestor in 1805, (or possibly a brother or cousin on the Picard side)., was not the only possible ancestor at tRafalgar that Picard might have been talkng about.
