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Every Saturday, Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings challenges us to a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. Although it is now Monday and I am late to the party, this week’s challenge was just too much fun to pass up: What Is Your Ancestor Score? In this challenge, you calculate how complete your genealogy is based on 10 generations, create a chart for those generations, and find our score.
I filled in the below chart by creating an Ahnentafel chart in RootsMagic and counted up each the people in each generation.
| Generation | Relationship | Possible People | Identified People |
| 1 | Me | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Parents | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Grandparents | 4 | 4 |
| 4 | Great Grandparents | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | 2x Great Grandparents | 16 | 16 |
| 6 | 3x Great Grandparents | 32 | 29 |
| 7 | 4x Great Grandparents | 64 | 49 |
| 8 | 5x Great Grandparents | 128 | 69 |
| 9 | 6x Great Grandparents | 256 | 51 |
| 10 | 7x Great Grandparents | 510 | 5 |
| – | Totals: | 1,023 | 234 |
I have identified 234 ancestors out of 1,023 possible ancestors. My ancestor score is 23%. Let’s see if I can raise that in 2014! Thanks for the fun challenge, Randy!
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