I decided that I needed an updated Ahnentafel Report (or Ancestor List). I made the last one about five years ago. Time sure flies when you're having genealogy fun - and I have been for 33 years now!
RootsMagic 7 genealogy software performs this task easily. With the active person as myself, I clicked on the "Reports" menu, then I clicked on "Lists" and clicked on "Ahnentafel." That opened the "Report Settings" screen and I selected "15 generations of Ancestors with me as the key person. I also checked the "Print color coding" box:
Clicking on "Generate Report" set the program off for about 6 seconds and a 181 page report (with an index) was created.
I did the same thing for Linda's ancestor list:
Her report is only 18 pages because her German ancestors are pretty much unknown.
Now the challenge for me is to count how many ancestors are in each generation. I still do this by hand because none of my software programs will do it for me (hint hint). It takes awhile!
I save my Ahnentafel Reports on my computer as a PDF file so that I can easily check when I'm quoting a number in a blog post (e.g., a 52 Ancestors post). I also use it to double check that the "right ancestors" are on FamilySearch Family Tree, Geni World Tree, and WikiTree.
I need to make one for my daughters and my brother-in-law and my brother-in-law too and send them to them - I'm not sure they even look at them but I'm doing my genea-duty to keep my family informed. Maybe it will inspire one or two of the grandchildren to take over in a few years.
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