I bet I know why Warren claimed Native American heritage.

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53. they could

Joseph Loomis was born about 1590. He had 8 children, 88 grandchildren, 405 great-grandchildren, 1405 great-great grandchildren, 3768 in the next generation, 8284 in the next, 14,439 in the next and 17,651 in the next.

Those are just the ones I knew about say a year ago (I have added people since (seemingly only 659))

For the next generation I have only 12,270 and for the next 5,525. It's harder for me to track descendants after the family historys, which were written in the 1880s.

But if you look at the 17,651 people in my great-great-grandfather's generation, and then look at one of my great-great-great grandparents, he had 13 children, 72 grandchildren, 214 great-grandchildren, 347 great-great grandchildren, and 483 in my generation. So taking those 17,651 and the 6300 marriages, if each couple did what my ancestor did that would be 3,042,900 descendants in my nieces generation.

A very much minimum estimate. Which the same numbers could be true if Joseph had had a native American spouse.