[onetimemanytime]

why not? What's the harm in knowing.

[Udik]

No harm, it's more that after a certain amount of generations the information becomes pretty irrelevant. You arbitrarily choose to follow certain lines (for prestige or historical significance) and necessarily disregard others. Going back to the 1600s, you descend in equal part from one lineage you mention and many thousand others which remain entirely unknown.

[hef19898]

No harm, I'm just not that interested in that kind of stuff it seems.

[TedDoesntTalk]

I understand your sentiment, but I gain humility and inspiration knowing how my ancestors lived and the sacrifices they made to have a better life.

To each his own.

[saalweachter]

There's also the reciprocal promise: we try to remember our ancestors and hope our descendants will remember us.