Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and I hope more of you do than participated in the last several SNGF challenges), is to:
1) Determine how complete your genealogy research is. For background, read Crista Cowan's post Family History All Done? What’s Your Number? and Kris Stewart's What Is Your Genealogy "Score?" For comparison purposes, keep the list to 10 or 11 generations with you as the first person.
2) Create a table similar to Crista's second table, and fill it in however you can (you could create an Ahnentafel (Ancestor Name) list and count the number in each generation, or use some other method). Tell us how you calculated the numbers.
3) Show us your table, and calculate your "Ancestral Score" - what is your percentage of known names to possible names (1,023 for 10 generations).
4) For extra credit (or more SNGF), do more generations and add them to your chart.
5) Post your table, and your "Ancestor Score," on your own blog, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post or Google+ Stream post.
Here's mine:
1) I did this by creating an Ahnentafel Report in RootsMagic 7 (Reports > Lists > Ahnentafel Report) for 15 generations, then saved it as a PDF, opened it, and counted, by hand, the persons on the list in each generation. The numbers included duplicate persons (due to marrying cousins) and persons I had either a first or last name for.
2) My chart (if you want a blank chart in Microsoft Word format, please email me!).
Randy
Seaver's Ancestral Name Score – January 2016
Generation
|
Relationship
|
Possible People
No. Sum1
|
Identified People
No. Sum2
|
Percentage
100*(Sum2/Sum1)
|
||
1
|
You
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
100.00%
|
Parents
|
2
|
3
|
2
|
3
|
100.00%
|
|
3
|
Grandparents
|
4
|
7
|
4
|
7
|
100.00%
|
4
|
1x Great-grandparents
|
8
|
15
|
8
|
15
|
100.00%
|
5
|
2x Great-grandparents
|
16
|
31
|
16
|
31
|
100.00%
|
6
|
3x Great-grandparents
|
32
|
63
|
30
|
61
|
96.83%
|
7
|
4x Great-grandparents
|
64
|
127
|
50
|
111
|
87.40%
|
8
|
5x Great-grandparents
|
128
|
255
|
77
|
188
|
73.72%
|
9
|
6x Great-grandparents
|
256
|
511
|
127
|
315
|
61.64%
|
10
|
7x Great-grandparents
|
512
|
1023
|
210
|
525
|
51.32%
|
11
|
8x Great-grandparents
|
1024
|
2047
|
352
|
877
|
42.84%
|
12
|
9x Great-grandparents
|
2048
|
4095
|
497
|
1374
|
33.55%
|
13
|
10x Great-grandparents
|
4096
|
8191
|
321
|
1695
|
20.69%
|
14
|
11x Great-grandparents
|
8192
|
16383
|
290
|
1985
|
12.12%
|
15
|
12x Great-grandparents
|
16384
|
32767
|
163
|
2148
|
6.56%
|
3) My "Ancestor Score" for 10 generations is:
* Number of known ancestral names = 525
* Number of possible ancestral names = 1,023
* 10 generation Ancestral Name Number = 525/1,023 = 51.32%
4) Extra credit: For 15 generations, I have 2,148 known Ancestral Names, out of 32,767 possible, for an Ancestor Score of 6.56% for 15 generations.
It really helps, in my case, to have a New England ancestry for about 50% of my 4th great-grandparents. All of those New England ancestors have English ancestors and those are the lines back to the 15th generation.
Note: I counted only persons in my ahnentafel list that had at least a given name. I didn't count persons with an unknown first name. I disconnected my Smith/Bell line because I know Devier Smith was adopted.
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/01/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html
Copyright (c) 2016, Randall J. Seaver
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9 comments:
there's no URL at the end...that's okay. I'd done this chart at Blaine Bettinger's urging and I've got only 1% of my ancestors identifed through generation 10 but I'm at 53% at generation 6!
Here's mine
http://loiswillis.com/2016/01/10/sunday-afternoon-genealogy-fun-your-ancestor-score-for-2016/
Here's mine! Ancestor score is 18.18%
https://relativeshisandhers.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/her-numbers/
Here's mine:
http://thebreakfastgenealogist.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-ancestor-score-for-2016.html
My 10-generation ancestor score is 245 or almost 24%. Yikes, I have a lot of work to do!
Linda's 10 generation chart
Generation Relationship Possible People Identified People % Found
1 me 1 1 100.00%
2 parents 2 2 100.00%
3 grandparents 4 4 100.00%
4 great-grandparents 8 8 100.00%
5 2x great-grandparents 16 15 93.75%
6 3x great-grandparents 32 24 75.00%
7 4x great-grandparents 64 22 34.00%
8 5x great-grandparents 128 11 8.00%
9 6x great-grandparents 256 0 0.00%
10 7x great-grandparents 512 0 0.00%
0.00%
TOTAL 1023 87 8.50%
Many of the unfounds are from Ireland :(
On my side I'm happy to be at 24.8 for 10 generations, up from 21.8% last year. I am happy with this increase. I have Benelux heritage that goes far back. But I was able to find several generations on my Scotch-Irish side.
My husband side is at 12.8%, up from 11.5% last year. One gr-grandfather was not listed on the birth certificate and his gr-grandmother never married, so there's a line that will be difficult to locate. He has an English line and a Alsace Lorraine line that go very far back. I enjoy keeping track of every year's increase.
Some years are better than others and this was a very good year.
It was interesting to see that I have added 32 names (3.1%) to my "Ancestor Score" in the past two years. See http://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/2016/01/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-updating.html.
I'm a bit late to the party, but this was a great exercise!
http://trippingovermyroots.blogspot.com/2016/01/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-ancestor.html
Finally got around to this, but loved it!
Here's my post with chart...
http://easttexasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/02/sngf-whats-your-number.html
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