Yoder Researchers, After seeing Judy's comment on "Pedigree Collapse", I thought of an article that I had just seen, and wanted to pass the address along. The article is on the Olive Tree Genealogy Page and is entitled "How many ancestors do we have?" http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ancnm.htm In my ancestry, I have a lot of "Collapse" on my Grandfather Yoder's side of the family. I tell people that I am 1/4 Amish. On the other Branches of my family, I have only a handfull of multiple ancestors. Which, when you get back 11 to 12 generations, means you are searching for a lot of surnames. I am adding a list of the surnames in my ancestry to my Genealogy page today. > > Roll call was fun - I'm amazed by people who can trace 7 or 8 lines > back to one couple. So far, in Berks Co., I've only had one > "pedigree collapse" - BROBST. > > Judy BORTZ GURKA > gurka@cs.colorado.edu > 16 g'granddaughter of Ulli (!!!) Steven A. Braman braman@wws.net http://www.wws.net/sbraman/genlink.html ==== YODER Mailing List ==== Volunteers wanted with Library Access--to copy Census and other Yoder data to add to our archives--write: Chris Yoder