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% |
* 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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Copyright (c) 2022, Randall J. Seaver
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Copyright (c) 2022, Randall J. Seaver
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