Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
1) How many known ancestors (at least a name) do you have in your generation of 4th great-grandparents? What about your significant other's generation of 4th great-grandparents?
2) Tell us how you figured this out, and highlight your most recent additions to your list.
3) Share a link to your blog post, or your Facebook Status post, on this post.
Here's mine:
I created an Ahnentafel report in RootsMagic 10 and carefully counted the number of ancestors in the generation of 4th great-grandparents. Here is an image of the page with the top of my 4th great-grandparents list (Generation 7):
An easier way to count them could have been to create a fan chart for 7 generations and count the missing people! Here is my 7 generation fan chart showing the 6 empty boxes:
I am missing three sets of 4th great-grandparents - the parents of the unknown father (?) of Devier James Lamphear Smith, the parents of William Knapp, and the parents of Sarah Fletcher. My most recent addition to my fan chart in the 4th generation was adding Thomas Partridge and Hannah Wakeman back in March 2024 courtesy of the FamilySearch Full-Text Search feature.
I know the name of only 33 of my wife's 4th great-grandparents (51.6% out of a potential 64). Here is her fan chart out to the 4th great-grandparents:
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5 comments:
It's been a while since I've responded to SNGF, but I have answers to this one. I have a huge decorative framed fan chat hanging in our TV room. So I hand counted. For my husband's side I have only 30/64. We may never find 8 of them, cuz we do not know his gr-grandfather. His gr-grandmother, who had 5 children called herself a widow. Each child gave a different father's name on their marriage certificate. I thought that was quite odd, but the family story was that he was in the military and they did not know him well. But when the birth certificates in Germany became available, I discovered that gr-grandmother never married. Sadly, her father gave the info at each of their births. None had a father's name. On my line, there are 51 of 64. Pretty good I'd say.
I think I'm an underachieve this week.
http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2024/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-how-many.html
This seems like an interesting project for DNA.
Here's mine: Here's mine: https://emptybranchesonthefamilytree.com/2024/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-307/
I agree. I keep hoping some DNA from a tiny town of 1000 near Berlin will show up. Patience.
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