#52 Ancestors 2024 Week 11 Achievement: Update on the Ancestor Hunt

 I'm using this week's prompt to update my data on the number of ancestors I have been able to identify in the last year since my 2023 post.

This year I have added a new generation to my count, so my overall percentage has gone down, but I thought it was worth it to move further back on my tree. (Not that I wasn't researching them before, but I wasn't going through and counting them up.)

So here is my chart from last year:

The Ancestor Hunt 2023

Generation	Number of Members	Found 2022	% 2022	Found 2023	% 2023
1.       Parents	2	2	100	2	100
2.       Grandparents	4	4	100	4	100
3.       Great Grandparents	8	8	100	8	100
4.       2X Grandparents	16	16	100	16	100
5.       3X Grandparents	32	32	100	32	100
6.       4X Grandparents	64	62	97	63	98
7.       5X Grandparents	128	114	89	123	96
8.       6X Grandparents	256	158	62	204	80
9.       7X Grandparents	512	249	49	265	52
10.   8X Grandparents	1024	294	29	323	32
Total	2046	939	46	1040	51

And here is this year's chart:

The Ancestor Hunt 2024

Generation	Number of Members	Found 2023	% 2023	Found 2024	% 2024
1.       Parents	2	2	100%	2	100%
2.       Grandparents	4	4	100%	4	100%
3.       Great Grandparents	8	8	100%	8	100%
4.       2X Grandparents	16	16	100%	16	100%
5.       3X Grandparents	32	32	100%	32	100%
6.       4X Grandparents	64	63	97%	63	97%
7.       5X Grandparents	128	123	89%	123	89%
8.       6X Grandparents	256	204	62%	218	85%
9.       7X Grandparents	512	265	49%	354	69%
10.   8X Grandparents	1024	323	29%	360	35%
11.   9X Grandparents	2048	NA	NA	546	27%
Total	4094	1040	25%	1726	42%

 

Out of a possible 4094 ancestors in 11 generations, I found 1726, or 42%, not bad really considering that these folks are going back to the 1600's. 

Still stuck on those few missing grandparents at the 4X and 5X levels.  But hope springs eternal that some long-lost Bible will come to light, or I'll find a will that names all the married daughters!

I see that the biggest jump is at 7X-great grandparents where I got almost 100 new people added.  I'm not sure that there was a big discovery there, but I did find one completely new line, so maybe it was the addition of the Clarks that gave me a big boost. Also, I did some research specifically on finding the immigrant ancestors of various families, and many of them were 6X and 7X grandparents, so perhaps that helped also.  

I want to keep plugging away at the immigrant ancestors this year.

As for the 8X and 9X grandparents, I'll keep working on those also, but most of them are back in Europe somewhere, and it is harder to find these folks unless they were notorious or members of the nobility or both.  Luckily, I do have some ancestors who fit that description.  But the ordinary folks, the farmers and fishermen, are harder to find. 

Also, I'm only tracking here my own family line.  This year, I made more of an effort to research and write about the families on my husband's side and my daughter-in-laws' sides, for the sake of my grandchildren seeing more of their ancestors.  Perhaps I should create a data tracker for them too.