King David is reported to be my 55th great grandfather in Geni. If there are only 57 steps between King David (born ca 1040 BC) and me (born in 1949), he was born 2089 years before me. Am I counting correctly that in this direct chain the average age of the parent at the birth of her/his child would be about 52 years? It's quite a lot - even if the chain consisted of males only, which it doesn't.
We should be quite conservative about making links between some medieval and older persons without having sound evidence. Have you researched your ancestors documented in Geni up to antiquity and years BC? Do you too come across a similar problem?
Shalom Eero,
you are indeed correct. There should be *at least* 100 (even 120) generations between the present and King David. This is, in fact, the case with the better documented lines. Most of the Royal lineages that trace back to King David are junk, created in medieval times, when this was fashionable. Additionally many people have copy-pasted bad GEDCOM files found online, into their tree, and then to Geni. I have promised a number of people, I would try and find this particular bad line on Geni, and attempt to fix it, via other more reasonable lines that contain the same historical notables.
I suggest we cut all connections to the biblical lines in this area: Dôn verch Mathonwy, {Fictitious, Mabinogion} or Frigg, {Norse God}, - that would help a lot on my short path.
These profiles are mythical persons.
Bjørn, I see that Friga has MANY immediate ancestors (including Anna) in the same "line". I think the cut should be made as far back as possible, but I don't really know this part of European pseudo-history.
I will try and clear up Anna's tree a bit before I make the cut. I always thought is RATHER unlikely that, having been born in " Isle Ely, United Kingdom" she would be the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea (in Judea).