Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What's Your Ancestor Score?

27 %

Randy Seaver over at the Genea-Musings blog has given us a new Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge which I have chosen to participate in. It seems not only fun but a good exercise to do every so often in order to see how my research and genealogy is progressing along.

Here’s what Randy wants us to do:

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 or 11 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 or Google+ Stream post.

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Here is my Ancestor Table:

I calculated the number of identified people by running an Ahnentafel in my RM program and then going through and counting the names in each generation. My score is 27%!

It probably would be higher if I included the research of other people, including my grandfather. But I keep his research in a separate tree file until I can find the sources to back the information up.

What's My Number?
Generation	Relationship	Possible People	Identified People
1	Me	1	1
2	Parents	2	2
3	Grandparents	4	4
4	1x Great-Grandparents	8	8
5	2x Great-Grandparents	16	16
6	3x Great-Grandparents	32	30
7	4x Great-Grandparents	64	49
8	5x Great-Grandparents	128	59
9	6x Great-Grandparents	256	59
10	7x Great-Grandparents	512	55
Total	283/1023 = 27%	1,023	283

What is YOUR score? Let us know in the comments below.