Organise a Pedigree With Ahnentafel Numbers and Soundex
Number every ancestor, estimate 11.5 generations back to a 1640 immigrant, find patrilineal ancestor 2048, and search census indexes under W325, K420 and T600.
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Family history guides
Working out how a DNA match is related, reading English parish registers from before the 1752 calendar change, and organising a pedigree with Ahnentafel numbers and Soundex codes.
Read an English Parish Register From Before 1752
A baptism on 3 March 1714 that was really 1715, a marriage 10 days behind the Continent and an 11-day jump in 1752: converting Old Style dates correctly.
Read guideWork Out How a DNA Match Is Related
A match shares 412 cM. Four relationships expect 425 cM; ages, shared matches and the tree narrow them to a first cousin once removed, and the cousin calculator names it.
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