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		Anechoic on Sept 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: How many generations removed are you from im... I'm a descendant of slaves so my family tree gets tricky once I get (back) to my great grandparents (who were alive during the U.S. Civil War). Best guess is 5th generation.

_jak on Sept 5, 2011 [–]

Same here for me, but it takes at least one more generation to get back to the U.S. Civil War.

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