Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice

I wrote a boilerplate Copyright Notice that I like to include in Descendant and Ancestor reports that I share.

I save the Copyright Notice in the record of the oldest male in each family.

This may result in the Copyright Notice appearing several times in a report.

Richard E. Henhorn

3 May 2020

Relatives and Ancestors

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as your ancestors. You create yourself out of these values. (Ralph Ellison)

Our pool of ancestors is vast. When we take time to study our history, we need to recognize the individual greatness, dignity, and style of our ancestors -- and use their lives as models for our own. (Both of the above from Black Pearls by Eric V. Copage, 25 August) 25 August 2011

Family Chronicle - Ahnentafel Charts...

Family Chronicle - Ahnentafel Charts...:

"Ahnentafel Charts Ron Wild explains what they are and why you need one."

Suter Family

This morning I uploaded a 90-page PDF genealogy about the ancestors of R.A. Suter (female) to the Marshall-Wetzel-WV folder on My Box.

The report includes some information about people in the following families: Suter, Parsons, Yoho, Watson, Wykert, Gorby and Baker.

Access to information in My Box is by invitation.

Stories

I will teach you hidden lessons from our past -- stories we have heard and know, stories our ancestors handed down to us. We will not hide these truths from our children but will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord. (Psalm 78:2-4)

Ancestral Influences

Remember some wonderful ancestral influences in your life. (Georgiana Sanchez, Daily Guideposts - 1990, 23 January)
17 Feb 2010

Ancestor Chart Project

One of the charts in the Ancestor Charts book I'm extracting was shared by genealogy friend, Claude Burton. He is a member of the Yoho family via two branches in his family tree. The chart in the book shows five generations with only names listed for the fifth generation. Because I'd worked on Claude's family in the past I knew I had more than four generations of detailed information in my Yoho file. I decided that rather than typing the chart from the book I'd attempt to extract his family tree from the Yoho family Personal Ancestral File (PAF) version 2.31 which I still have on my desktop computer.

I created a GEDCOM file for the ancestors of one of Claude's children. Then I edited the GEDCOM to remove the paragraph place holders between the notes. I also did global edits to improve some of the place names. I added the abbreviation "Co." to the county names and spelled out the word "Cemetery" wherever I noticed that it was truncated. There were 1125 people and 203 marriages in the file I created.

I loaded the GEDCOM file into RootsMagic and used the Place Name list to do further place name edits. Testing after the edits revealed that in some cases an Ahnentafel chart for Claude's descendant included eleven generations. I usually think of a generation as thrity-three years. In this case that's 363 years of family history.

This was the first time I attempted to extract a small set of family information from my old PAF files by creating a GEDCOM for ancestors, rather than descendants. I do have lots of experience working with GEDCOM files. I'm pleased that I now have another way to salvage some of the genealogy I keyed over the years. Of course, once the data was loaded to RootsMagic I could just as easily generate a report on descendants as on ancestors.

Mr. Dickie
17/Jan/2010 9:49

Ahnentafel Defined

Ahnentafel Defined

Ahnentafel is a German word meaning ancestor chart.

The person for whom the chart is prepared has the number one (1) in front of their name.

To find the father of a person, double their number. To find the mother, double their number and add one. Therefore, the parents of (1) would be (2) and (3). The parents of (3) would be (6) and (7). Fathers are always even numbers and mothers odd numbers.

By the way, if people repeat in a chart it is not an error. This happens when there are so many links between the various families.

File: !ahnen.txt