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I knew my great-grandmother, few people do. My great-great-grandmother is an ancient picture on the wall of my dead grandmother's house, from a time when photography was new, a scant few years past daguerreotypes.
4 mothers back is all I can summon, only remember 3.
I knew two of my great grandmothers (yay for really young parents!). I know I met two others but didn't really know them.
I was told that I met my great great grandmother once when I was a toddler but I don't remember it. She died at age 99.
4 mothers back is all I can summon,
What's the spell?
"I'm feeling hungry and mildly pregnant"
Let's push it one step further and frame history since agriculture, 9500 years ago, against the upper limit of a human lifetime now, about 100 years. This would mean recorded times started only less than 100 human lifespans ago. Bleh
So that's about 13,000 homo sapiens mothers?
Depending on the religion, yes. Otherwise it‘s 12 years per mother, 14 if you’re late.
You would have a lot more death during pregnancy / childbirth though.