One of the things I do know about my great grandmothers of several centuries far back (and maybe she is also one of yours if she is a common ancestor), is that

One of the things I do know about my great grandmothers of several centuries far back (and maybe she is also one of yours if she is a common ancestor), is that she must have been an obese woman, even for the standards of the day. We’re talking late 1400s or so. This woman indeed must have been so fat, that at the time of her death the earth was flat, but when they buried her it became round.