THOUGHT!

A thought occurred to me just then.

I was helping out Clare with her homework, and it was about Oral History (from what we could figure out, it was history that is mostly word of mouth) and it gave me an idea.
I'm wondering how far down a generation a word-of-mouth story can be passed, without writing it down and keeping it within one family (which, thinking about it, would make it really easy to detect inbreeding). Like one person tells their child/children, then they tell their child/children and so on.
It would be like one MASSIVE game of Chinese Whispers.