I’ve Discovered All of My 3rd Great Grandparents! (And How to Post Tables on Your Blog)

I first did an “ancestral score” spreadsheet in January of 2015. This is where you create a chart showing how many of your grandparents, great grandparents, etc., you have identified.

I didn’t post a similar chart in January of 2016. However, I now realize that in 2015, I discovered my missing 3x great grandparents, the Holthoefer’s and the Adam’s, through the book I was a contributing author to regarding Holthoefer ancestors. So, I now know all of my 3x great grandparents!

table.tableizer-table {
font-size: 12px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.tableizer-table td {
padding: 4px;
margin: 3px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
.tableizer-table th {
background-color: #104E8B;
color: #FFF;
font-weight: bold;
}

 

table.tableizer-table {
font-size: 12px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.tableizer-table td {
padding: 4px;
margin: 3px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
}
.tableizer-table th {
background-color: #104E8B;
color: #FFF;
font-weight: bold;
}

 

Generation	Relationship	Possible Number	Identified in My Tree	Increase from 2016
1	You	1	1	0
2	Parents	2	2	0
3	Grandparents	4	4	0
4	Great Grandparents	8	8	0
5	2x Great Grandparents	16	16	0
6	3x Great Grandparents	32	32	0
7	4x Great Grandparents	64	43	4
8	5x Great Grandparents	128	39	2
9	6x Great Grandparents	256	36	0
	TOTAL	511	181	6

This is my ancestral score as of January 2017. I am obviously counting differently as, although I discovered 4 additional direct descendants in 2015 and 6 in 2016, I am still at 181 identified. I think this has to do with my uncertainty as to whether or not to count a female when her first name is known but her last name is not known. So, it’s not a perfect system, but I am discovering new direct ancestors!

Although both of these tables were created on Word, the second one was posted on my blog by using “Tableizer!” I think it is easy to use and I like the results. For a step-by-step guide, see the post titled “Adding a table to a post without coding” on BloggerSentral.