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2. Claiming 132 generations of verifiable parentage is a bold claim.

My experience with genealogy is this: It's often pretty difficult to find evidence of relation to people who lived only 175-200 years ago. That being said, I have seen a Hinkle (Henckel) family history which seems pretty solid at least into the first half of the 17th century and possibly as far back as the era of the Black Death in the middle of the 14th century. Still, that's less than 700 years.