Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Ancestor Score for 2022

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

 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 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.  Be sure to comment and leave a link to your post on this post.

Here's mine:

1)  I did this by creating an Ahnentafel Report in RootsMagic 8 (Publish > All Reports and Charts  > Ahnentafel Report) for 15 generations, then saved it as a text file, then copied it to Excel, and counted the lines for each generation.  The numbers included duplicate ancestral 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 2022

Generation	Relationship	Possible People No. -- Sum1		Identified People No. -- Sum2		Percentage 100*(Sum2/Sum1)
1	You	1	1	1	1	100.00%
2	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	57	118	92.91%
8	5x Great-grandparents	128	255	100	218	85.49%
9	6x Great-grandparents	256	511	160	378	73.97%
10	7x Great-grandparents	512	1023	264	642	62.76%
11	8x Great-grandparents	1024	2047	404	1046	51.10%
12	9x Great-grandparents	2048	4095	574	1620	39.56%
13	10x Great-grandparents	4096	8191	469	2089	25.50%
14	11x Great-grandparents	8192	16383	323	2412	14.72%
15	12x Great-grandparents	16384	32767	194	2606	7.95%

3)  My "Ancestor Score" for 10 generations is:

*  Number of known ancestral names = 642
*  Number of possible ancestral names = 1,023
*  10 generation Ancestral Name Number = 642/1,023 = 62.76%

4)  Extra credit:  For 15 generations, I have 2,606 known Ancestral Names, out of 32,767 possible, for an Ancestor Score of 7.95% 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.  

The last time I did this was in January 2016 - Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Ancestor Score for 2016.  So I've increased my 10 generation score by 117 ancestors, or 11.44%.

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