They also fall back into family history very different from genealogy IMHO and trace aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. But to say that there is a certain percentage left to do when there is literally no way to do it, is absurd.
Then I believe that there are no records and the trail goes cold. Even if your Pettypool English origin is correct what does that get you? One more generation? How many English church records that still exist predate the year ? No one else, in the top echelons of genealogical research that I know, comes anywhere close to that.
And I never cared for the stories at all, I leave that for the family historians. As a genealogist, I wanted to prove relationships in the past. There is no deed, no court case, no church record, no vital record, no census, no military record, no family bible, etc. If you still feel the need to research, you need to find a new family. Talk about depressing …. Seriously, I start dropping off at 2nd great grandparents and have so many maybes in the later generations I hesitate to even try to count them up.
It really is all about the stories, Nan. The rest of it is just names and dates. But oh… those stories …. True, true. One of many reasons I tend not to do client work…. It was a challenge just figuring out how to figure it out. Some I despair of all aliens took the surname Johnson, in my humble opinion.
Always a new challenge! Great exercise and humbling indeed. Man, all you folks who started as teenagers!!! The bigger question is whether 9 gens is the future gold standard? Depressing but true. Judy: Great post! It does decrease, but that gives us hope that some of our … um … quirks may not pass on to our descendants!! LOL well I see some family ties to old George alien lines in the family I have a feeling based on previous experience that George and I are some how related as that explains perfectly my situation.
As I have been putting together the trees of all my connections it just dawned on me that this would not be nearly as fun if it just all fit together easily. So batten down the hatches — that side of the family is a wild ride. It takes alot of courage to face those numbers, but it also tells us where we need to go.
That is one whole section I may never fill in, but at least we may be able to find someone with that same photo to match to unfortunately, it was taken in Sweden before Thank you for going through your review — it has given me the push to start adding up my numbers. I thought I was doing pretty good after only about 3 years…..
I suddenly moved back 2 more generations by doing that! Sitting here laughing. You have to start with your parents as the first ancestral generation — not your kids!
Sigh — I figured that was the case. For only about half of the And notarial records became available online recently in the area of concern, though those are going to be a tough slog for multiple reasons. I know I had one…. In one case, I have found a little note identifying the father of my great grandmother. I am at or And photos of I am pretty proud of the story I have pieced together for one great grandfather.
Your email address will not be published. By posting a comment, you agree that this website can store and handle your data under its privacy policy. More lost than found by Judy G. For third cousins, everything just goes up a level—your parents are second cousins, your grandparents are first cousins, your great-grandparents are siblings, and you have a common pair of great-great-grandparents. A straight second, third, or fourth cousin must be on your same generation level.
The number of cousins you have grows exponentially as the degree of distance goes up. You may have a small number of first cousins, but you likely have hundreds of third cousins, thousands of fifth cousins, and over a million eighth cousins. Because I got a little obsessed with this concept while doing this post, I decided to roll up the nerd sleeves and figured out a formula for this:. I calculated some examples below:. Most interesting to me is that these numbers go up so exponentially that taking the world average for number of children per family 2.
The other way to look at this is from the top down and see how quickly the distance of relation is magnified as generations move down—while you and your sibling grew up in the same house, your kids will be cousins who might or might not be friends and your grandkids might barely know each other. In its first couple hundred years, before expanding into the thousands, it might look something like this:.
Little Telia, born right around the year , is as much a mystery to you as your ancestors from the early s up above. Wait But Why posts regularly. If you like this, check out Meet your ancestors all of them , Your life in weeks , and What makes you you.
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Sign me up. Update your browser for the best experience. Use the first letter of their surname, if they are all different. I like using the first letter of the surname because this prevents having to look up a reference number to know which family group you are referencing. Fewer errors will occur. Following the first letter of the surname, indicate their Pedigree Chart reference number. Each of their children, preferably listed in chronological order, are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
Each child of the children of my great-grandparents are also numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Continue this same numbering sequence for all generations listed in the Family Group Record forms. It is preferable that the children of all couples be listed chronologically. This permits you to determine by the coding system the order of children of the couple. Should you make an error, after the coding is in place, you may wish to correct the coding, but this would require a lot of attention since all subsequent codes would also be affected as well as all references to that particular code.
It is not advisable to code your family members until you feel fairly certain that the chronological order is correct. You will run into one small problem in this coding system. Your grandparents will appear in two family groups. The reference code for my great-grandparents St Denis will start with S. The next reference number will be their children.
At this point, I would suggest that you simply cross-reference the female spouse to the male spouse for all remaining information. Do not try to repeat the information for duplicated families that are joined by marriage. Trying to duplicate the information will only create errors and confusion. If you are using a computer to store your information, you may wish to adapt the coding system of your particular software to the Family Group Record forms.
This example is but one method of coding. I found this system very easy to use. I also found the coding system not only provided a reference number, but it also was informative in providing the chronological position within the family. Choose one you feel comfortable with and be consistent in using that method.
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