Almost 150,000 Faroese People Are All Descended From One Guy

In the North Atlantic Ocean, close to Iceland, are the Faroe Islands. There are roughly 158,000 residents there currently or in the past, and astonishingly, 149,000 of them can all trace their ancestry to one man. Family gatherings must be spectacular. Around 21,000 Faroese reside in neighboring nations, primarily in Norway, Iceland, and Denmark. The majority of Faroese are citizens of Denmark, a member state of which the Faroe Islands are a part. One of the North Germanic languages, Faroese is closely related to the western Norwegian and Icelandic dialects.

Clemen Laugesen Follerup is regarded as the prolific ancestor of the majority of Faroese Islanders. In the seventeenth century, he had 23 kids. 66 grandkids in 27 villages resulted from that. The island's inhabitants were added to something called the Genetic BioBank in 2006, which served as a kind of Faroese national genetic registry. Everyone the computer program recorded turned out to be a cousin of everyone else, so it continued reading mistakes.