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The arithmetic of cuckoldry in family trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Roger Voles
Roger Voles*
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Family history research has become a very popular hobby during the last few years due to the ready access to records of births and marriages. Many people have rigorously traced their ancestors back to 1700 and earlier, corresponding to some 12 generations. The principal motivation of most amateur genealogists is to learn about the lives of their forebears and they trust these ‘legal’ records without question and do not usually acknowledge that cuckoldry may have occurred and that their true ancestors may not have been the ones recorded.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 90 , Issue 518 , July 2006 , pp. 209 - 214
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2006

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