Genealogy (FAMILY TREES) Encore with Stephen Hanks

Oh hey, 2026 Ally here with a well-deserved encore of an episode that I love. Perfect timing also for Black History Month. And if you go to alleyward.com slash ology slash Black History Month, you'll find a wonderful catalog full of great ologists and all of the causes that they chose for us to support in their name. So we'll link that in the show notes, but onto this chat that I love. Okay.

Oh hey, it's your fourth cousin. Twice removed, Allie Ward, back with a familial historical episode of Aologies. So you were here because people made babies with each other, and out of all of the gametes and all of the gonats, you became a collection of molecules, and you're suspended in a web of family. Even a cockroach technically has grandparents and cousins. Isn't that weird?

Your cat might have an uncle. And if you have children, Gaze at them. They may have children who have children, and then those childrens might not even know your damn name. They'll just know you're dead.

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