More thoughts on the 10 generation issue

I am intrigued by the issues raised in a series of blogs about
documenting 10 generations. Please see "Documenting
10 Generations Revisited" by Randy Seaver and
follow his links. I realize that the topic died a rather quick death in
the blog community. But there is an underlying issue, what kind of
documentation is really possible and how believable is any documentation
back hundreds of years? This issue goes along with the claims made by
numbers of genealogists that they have lines going back to _________.
(Fill in the blank with any historical person including Charlemagne or
even Adam himself).
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