Ahnentafel is the German word for "ancestor chart." An ahnentafel chart, sometimes called a
"continental pedigree," lists your ancestor' names and their birth, marriage, and death dates and
places. Each ancestor is assigned a unique number.
To get an idea of how an ahnentafel chart works, print out a pedigree chart and an ahnentafel
chart for the same individual, and compare them.
1. Number 1 is the first person on the pedigree chart.
2. Numbers 2 and 3 are the first person's parents
3. Numbers 4 and 5 are the father's parents.
4. Numbers 6 and 7 are the mother's parents.
Another way to look at is... On an ahentafel chart, to find a father, double an individual's number
and to find the mother, double the individual's number and add 1. This will work for any number
on the list. Double the number to find the father and add 1 to find the mother. To reverse the
process, divide by two to find the child of a male. To find the child a female, subtract one
number, then divide by 2.
One of the best explainations I have seen yet on the use of and how to decifer the
Ahnentafel Chart, can be found at:
Family Chronicles/Ahnentafel .
Don't forget... Your Ahnentafel Chart can also be added. Submit it to "Footprints",
but be sure that you have listed your full name and E-Mail address. See below:
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