Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1)
Consider your Birth Surname families - the ones from your father back
through his father all the way back to the first of that surname in your
family group sheets or genealogy database. List the father's name, and
lifespan years.
2)
Use your paper charts or genealogy software program to create a
Descendants chart (dropline or graphical) that provide the children and
their children (i.e., up to the grandchildren of each father in the
surname list).
3)
Count how many children they had (with all spouses), and the children
of those children in your records and/or database. Add those numbers to
the list. See my example below! [Note: Do not count the spouses of
the children]
4)
What does this list of children and grandchildren tell you about these
persons in your birth surname line? Does this task indicate areas that
you need to do more research to fill out families and find potential
cousins?
Mads Christensen (Mads died before his son was born)
1 son
3 grandchildren
Mikkel Madsen 1807-1888
6 children
19 grandchildren
Hans Mikkelsen 1837-1892
10 children
25 grandchildren
Anton Mikkel Hansen 1870-1961
5 children
9 grandchildren
Claude Dillingham Hansen 1906-2008
2 children
1 grandchild
24 children average 4.8 per generation
60 grandchildren average 12 per generation
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