Hello, Because of the posting on the MAMiddle List today, I went back to a list I started last fall and never finished. I was trying to make a list of all my ancestors by name only. I just checked the names under the category "7th great-grandparents" for one side of my family-tree and so far I have 30 names. I was curious how many names I'm supposed to have there, and went to a Google search. I found this chart: http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=434 If this chart is correct, and I'm supposed to come up with names of over 500 ancestors for my "7 greats," I have a lot more work to do ! :o( But, further in the search, I find this article which explains why the above chart doesn't work. It involves: cousins marrying cousins, etc. http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/ancestors.shtml Here are 2 more charts which seems to be the same as the above chart: http://gonetotexas.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=chart http://genealogy2.com/howmany/howmany.html Here's a chart of "Kinship Relationships" http://churchtree.tripod.com/kinship.html Betty (near Lowell, MA) (reminder that I do not have a data base of any kind) (I much prefer - communicating with other genealogists)
1 1 You 2 2 Parents 3 4 G 4 8 GG 5 16 3G 6 32 4G 7 64 5G 8 128 6G 9 256 7G 10 512 8G 11 1024 9G 12 2048 10G In other words for each generation the number of ancestors doubles. Betty wrote: > Hello, > > Because of the posting on the MAMiddle List today, I went back to a list I > started last fall and never finished. I was trying to make a list of all > my ancestors by name only. I just checked the names under the category > "7th great-grandparents" for one side of my family-tree and so far I have 30 > names. I was curious how many names I'm supposed to have there, and went > to a Google search. I found this chart: > > http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=434 > > If this chart is correct, and I'm supposed to come up with names of over > 500 ancestors for my "7 greats," I have a lot more work to do ! :o( > > But, further in the search, I find this article which explains why the above > chart doesn't work. It involves: cousins marrying cousins, etc. > > http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/ancestors.shtml > > Here are 2 more charts which seems to be the same as the above chart: > > http://gonetotexas.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=chart > > http://genealogy2.com/howmany/howmany.html > > Here's a chart of "Kinship Relationships" > > http://churchtree.tripod.com/kinship.html > > > Betty (near Lowell, MA) > > > (reminder that I do not have a data base of any kind) > (I much prefer - communicating with other genealogists) > > > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MAMIDDLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.90/2361 - Release Date: 09/10/09 18:12:00 > >