New Wikitree Calculator Shows Number of Generations In Your Research

The chart above is new on Wikitree. If you look at it, it’s pretty self-explanatory, but it does demand a few comments. Over the years I’ve been researching my genealogy (more than 25), I’ve managed to identify nearly 26,000 “cousins” going back far more generations than are shown in the chart.

I’ve told people for a long time that if they can get past their own 6th generation or so, they have a pretty good chance putting their lines into some sort of historical perspective. I’m not sure that’s true, anymore. Let’s take someone like a Mayflower descendant, several of which I’ve recently discovered after all my research. If anything, I’m more surprised I didn’t find one sooner, based on the number of people in my lines who came to America during the Puritan Great Migration of the early 1600’s.

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Many people I talk to have brick walls appear in the 5th or 6th generations. Unless you are actively researching your lines, have a lot of online sources to check, use a genealogy site (paid or otherwise), or have an incredible amount of help from other researchers, it’s a daunting job tracing your ancestry. That’s why most people never “get around” to it.

That’s enough for now. I’m going to continue to mull it around in my head, but I know I have more to say, just not HOW to say it, yet. Stay tuned!

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