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This table is taken from a genetic pedigree compiled from a family who traced lineages throughout Europe.  The next table shows a tree of the individuals to see the paternal lineages of some of them. The left and the right columns are given below. This table is taken from a table from a French pedigree And the third table we have an overview of the DNA from this pedigree, all the autosomal DNA, Y-chromosome lineages, paternal lineages, and mt DNA lines. These genes are shown by their labels. They are the most important genes in our DNA, and they are how we passed on our ancestry. They are also the reason we still have all the modern variants in our DNA, you must have a good picture when talking about ancestry. So ... Let's have a look at the Y-chromosome. This is the line that we have inherited most of our DNA from. We call it Y-chromosome DNA. The Y-chromosome is what gives us the dominant male, dominant female, and the dominant female. These are the two sexes. To make sure we are doing a good job describing our ancestors, it is nice to have a diagram to explain the Y-chromosome. This diagram is made from the following source. This diagram shows our ancestors ...  The next picture shows our Y-chromosome as two branches. This is made by taking one gene and the two different chromosomes from a random person in the population and plotting those chromosomes along a line. It shows the two separate branches that are the male and the female. For instance, the chromosome 1 is from the first male and chromosome 2 is from the female. In general, the first male and second male are related, because both their first male child and their second male child are more likely to have a male firstborn child. The second male is more related of the first male's second male child. The third male is related, because his two first male sons are more likely to have a male firstborn child than a male second born child. The fourth male is most like the first male's second son. Here is a nice comparison of the male chromosomes to the three females:  Now let's have a look at the paternal lineages. The picture above shows two male lineages and three female lineages.

What is the purpose of the ahnentafel form?

Use this form to make your ahnentafel or, in other words, a list of your direct ancestors in a fixed sequence of ascent.

How do I fill the ahnentafel form?

List yourself as No.1, list your father as No.2 and your mother as No.3, your paternal grandparents as No.4 and No.5 and the maternal grandparents as No.6 and No.7, and so on, back through five generations. Apart from No.1, who can be male or female, all even-numbered persons are male, and all odd-numbered persons are female.

The number of any person's father is double the person's number, and a person's mother is double the person's number plus one.

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Hi, I'm Penny Stratton, Publishing Director at NEWS. In this video tutorial I'll show you how to use genealogical numbering in an Ahnentafel or ancestor table. Ahnentafel is German for ancestor table. It begins at or near the present and moves back in time, often to the earliest known ancestor. It uses a mathematical numbering system that allows readers to quickly find a direct line of ancestry. Each person in an ahnentafel is numbered. The subject of the ancestor table—let's say it's you—is number 1. Your father is number 2, and your mother is number 3. Your father's parents are numbers 4 and 5; your mothers are numbers 6 and 7; and so on. The father always has an even number and the mother an odd number. Mathematically, you can find the parents of someone by doubling a person's number. To find the father you multiply a person's number by 2 and to find a person's mother, you multiply the number by two and add one. And to find someone's child, you divide the father's number by 2. Let's look at a published example: to find the parents of number 57, Rachel Welsh, I multiply 57 times 2 to find her father's number and multiply 57 by 2 and add 1 to find her mother's. I can then flip through the book until I find number 114, George Welsh, and number 115, Nancy Cannon. Note that every number needs to be accounted for. So even when names aren't known, we give the numbers or a range of numbers—as you see here for numbers 116 and 117. In a sense, you can think of the ancestor table as a multigenerational chart turned sideways to read vertically. You're going back in your ancestry, generation by generation. I hope you've found this video helpful. For more information on how to write and publish your family history, visit our Online Learning Center.