Ancestor/Ahnentafel number

If you are on the " My Ancestors " page , at the top of this page next to My Ancestors there is + Add new household, Sort entries by Name, Type, Household and Date of entry. Choosing one of these will sort your list of ancestors in various ways, maybe this will help.

 

On your My Summary page under the heading My Ancestors (by relationship) the first category is Direct Ancestors with the number you've entered. You probably know this already but others reading this might not have looked at this feature so forgive me for mentioning it. Perhaps Peter could list Direct Ancestors individually as a separate category when as Heather suggests you sort your ancestors by Type on the My Ancestors page. I was surprised to find that I had entered as many as 49 Direct Ancestors, and with over 3500 Blood Relatives to search through it would take a long time to find those individual Direct Ancestors. For you, Tim, it would doubtless take a lot longer!

 

I've also done this, Tim, and found all my direct ancestors listed together in order of increasing Ahnentafel number. I was surprised to find I had a total of 87 direct ancestor entries, but some of these are 'duplicates' i.e. the same ancestor in 2 different censuses. I counted 66 different direct ancestors that I'd entered, still a surprising number to me.

 

Yes, I had seen this before but had forgotten about it, so thanks for the reminder. I may have been misled into thinking there were 87 different direct ancestors entered, if I hadn't looked at the detailed list and seen the duplicates across different censuses.

 

I have 58 listed on the summary page, and I think there are 42 in the detailed list.

 

Thank you. I had trouble figuring out some, especially where there were 20 in one list.

 

I printed the chart, and discovered that I had a few numbers incorrect.