tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post5648695402353061602..comments2024-03-26T21:29:07.190-07:00Comments on Rejoice, and be exceeding glad...: Can You Actually Find Someone New to Add to the FamilySearch Family Tree? -- Part OneJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-73890959283078005692016-08-17T11:26:58.499-07:002016-08-17T11:26:58.499-07:00Anyone new to add? Just a few!
My wife’s father c...Anyone new to add? Just a few!<br /><br />My wife’s father comes from the island of Stord, Norway. It is covered by a single parish whose records start in 1725. The records are excellent and easy to use back to 1815. Between about 1780 and 1815 they are pretty good. There are very good censuses in 1801, 1835, 1865, 1875, 1891, 1900, and 1910 which are fully transcribed.<br /><br />We have followed with careful documentation his direct lines back six generations from him which takes us to that 1780 point.<br /><br />Take just two of the 64 ancestors in that 6th generation, one couple. Assume for simplicity that that couple had five children that grew up and got married and that each succeeding generation did the same. Coming forward those same five generation, who all were born more than 110 years ago and so candidates for temple work, gives:<br /><br />Original couple: 2<br />Children: 5 plus 5 spouses = 10<br />Grandchildren: 25 plus 25 spouses = 50<br />G-Grandchildren 125 plus 125 spouses = 250 people<br />G-G-Grandchildren = 625 plus 625 spouses = 1,250 people<br />G-G-G-Grandchildren = 3,125 plus 3,125 spouses = 6,250 people<br /><br />There has been a lot of extraction work done for the area, but it stopped before reaching the last two lines. All the extracted records need to be found and merged with our edited and sourced copies of them in Family Tree. The last two lines all need to be added, which would be 7,500 new people for the tree. That does not even count all the children that never had children.<br /><br />To take a very rough estimate for the extent of pedigree collapse moving forward in time, let me assume that 3/4’s of that 6th generation do not provide any additional g-g-g-grandchildren due to intermarriage and lines dying out. That leaves 8 couples which would result in 50,000 g-g-grandchildren and g-g-g-grandchildren still to add to Family Tree.<br /><br />I do hope we run into some distant cousins that are also working on this!<br /><br />The parish register for Stord which covers 1879 to 1909 and is all online, has 20 birth records per page and has 121 pages. This is only 2,420 births so clearly my estimates are widely excessive. What this implies, however, is that my wife’s father is related to every single one of those 2,420 people thorough one line of descent or another. That also implies that the only way to be “done” with my wife’s ancestors and relations on just Stord is to be sure that every person in the Stord parish registers is properly recorded in Family Tree. In other words, we will never be done.Gordon Colletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501621351412089615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-48342358462760341302016-08-17T08:53:18.990-07:002016-08-17T08:53:18.990-07:00Have you discovered Descendants with Tasks on the ...Have you discovered Descendants with Tasks on the FS Mobile Tree App? Super fun. And also Ancestors with Tasks on the same app. Your advice to prove relationships first always precedes anything else though.Cathy Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10461484882494138496noreply@blogger.com