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While significantly smaller than the number found, this information is still quite interesting for a number of reasons.įirst, my pedigree collapse didn’t begin until the 10 th generation. On the chart, the “DNA Anc” column heading means DNA ancestor’s located and the next column, “% DNA,” is the associated percentage. I sure hope my retirement money holds out that long! It looks like one gains about 1% per year, so at this rate you’ll only need to live for another 88 years to be done. So Judy, take heart, in another 22 years you’ll be up to 37%, about one third of the way there. At 1% per year, I’m three years ahead of schedule!Įxpanding this number to the 10 th generation reduced my percentage to 24%, but still not bad for 300 years ago, or so. So comparing my 9 th generation with Judy’s number, I had a total of 382 ancestors found out of 1022 possible, for 37%. I wound up doing an extra generation that Judy didn’t do. The percent would look a lot better if compared it with the number of ancestors identified….but that wouldn’t be playing quite fair.ġ01 (4 women no surname, 8 duplicate ancestors on Mom’s side) On the chart below, the generation is noted, the total number of end-of-line ancestors in that generation, the number of ancestors I’ve identified, the percentage that represents, followed by the number whose DNA I have and the percentage compared to the total number of ancestors possible. I wouldn’t say this comparison has been fun, but it has been enlightening in a number of ways. Last week, when I read Judy’s article, I wondered exactly how my DNA pedigree chart would compare to the number of ancestors in total and the number found. Of these 16 ancestors, I have the DNA of 10 of them. I thought this was pretty good, actually. Instead, I focus on the 10 lines whose DNA I do have. I can’t find Rachel Hill Lore’s daughter’s descendants from Warren County, Pa. The deJong line had no daughters and we don’t know who her parents were in the Netherlands, so we can’t go upstream. With some heavy duty elbow-grease, I should be able to find someone to test for the Margaret Herrell Cook Bolton (Claiborne County, TN) and the Margaret Lentz Miller (Montgomery Co., OH and Elkhart Co., IN) lines. The Kirsch family has few male descendants here in the US, and so far, the only one I can find isn’t interested in testing. The one person who could test for the Ruthy Dodson Estes (Claiborne Co., Tn.) mitochondrial line, won’t. It pains me that there are blanks at the top, and some of them can never be filled.
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It took a lot of work, not to mention money and in some cases, some significant arm-twisting to accomplish this. In my presentations, I always talk to people about building their DNA pedigree chart.
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At 1% per year, I should rack up about 34%. I’ve been researching for 34 years, so I was hopeful that my percentage would be somewhat better. She has only been researching for 12 years. Judy Russell blogged a few days ago about counting up the number of ancestors you have found, of the total number available in the past 10 generations in her blog, “ More Lost than Found.” Judy had a tidy total of 12% after the 10 th generation, counting your parents as generation 1.