HOLY BUCKETS! Nathaniel and Anne, look what you did!

Here's part of a list of names I found at this site:

http://jvrx7.0catch.com/ui16.htm#a143

It's associated surnames for the branch of the family tree that follows one of the grandchildren of Eli and Keziah, sort of ... at any rate it splits off from our branch at AJ and Susannah Wilkinson Branson, AJ being the son of John son of Eli - sounds a bit like the 'begats' of the Bible, huh? 

Get ready, here's part of the list of surnames Bransons have either married or married into since John married Sarah Jones in 1786, the ones I found at the above site:

Stipp
Onstott
Harper
Cooper
Graves
Thomas
Cantral
Thomas
Cole
Hill
Davis
Dickey
Braugher
Leech
Uhl
Balch
Brixay
Page
Jennings
Farrell
Sprowls
Foote
Fleming
Gayler
Parker
Vaughn
Fowler
Jones
Smith
Gage
McFadden
Joiner
Taylor
Bolton
Johnson
Romero
Rhodes
Patti
Evans
Hammons
Warden

GOOD LORD.  

And that's not even following any of the Andrew, Eli, Keziah, or Becky lines  from John and Sarah even a couple of generations like some of the others are ... there are FORTY-ONE surnames just on that list alone, right up there. 

Major kudos to John Walter Vaughn, I kid you not. 

OMG This is only a partial list of a partial list of a partial list ... 

The master list would be exponentially longer ...

O_O

It's enough to boggle a person's mind.

Now I remember why I narrowed my search as much as I could to my own direct line - 

Say ten siblings have ten kids each - that's a hundred first cousins right there - then those hundred cousins have ten kids each - not counting the OTHER side of the family's first cousins ... who were probably generating an equal number ... 

OR the ones who came before, back to Nathaniel and Anne!

No, I don't even want to try to think about it. I can't even keep track of my own first cousins and there aren't THAT many of us!

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Do that for a dozen generations ... not.

And that's just about enough of THAT.

You can double all of the above, for the kids being produced by the siblings of the spouses of all of the above ... or some such ... the numbers are impossible for me to fathom, even three generations worth. 

Thank God not EVERYONE followed this pattern, sez I. And after a couple of generations they slowed down to a more reasonable production of progeny, for the most part. 

I hope I don't have nightmares tonight - I've got a lot to get done tomorrow.