More thoughts on the 10 generation issue

I am intrigued by the issues raised in a series of blogs aboutdocumenting 10 generations. Please see "Documenting10 Generations Revisited" by Randy Seaver andfollow his links. I realize that the topic died a rather quick death inthe blog community. But there is an underlying issue, what kind ofdocumentation is really possible and how believable is any documentationback hundreds of years? This issue goes along with the claims made bynumbers of genealogists that they have lines going back to _________.(Fill in the blank with any historical person including Charlemagne oreven Adam himself).
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