Whew! As I was reading along, I thought I was going to be agreeing with snowman 100%, and thought the world was surely going to end today. Then I got to the last sentence...we're safe! IMO, we're all "mutts"...go back 20 generations and every single one of us would theoritcally have over 1 million unique contributors to our individual genetics ASSUMING every branch along the way was "outward". Now think about the probability of that happening

. How does anyone know Washington had no children, was he impotent? That's a serious question btw, otherwise it's pure conjecture...Ole GW may have not known what the meaning of "is" is either.