Calling all
Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some
more Genealogy Fun!!
Our assignment this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing
is to:
1) Consider your Birth Surname families - the
ones from your father back through his father all the way back to the first of
that surname in your family group sheets or genealogy database. List the
father's name, and lifespan years.
2) Use your paper charts or genealogy software program to create a
Descendants chart (dropline or graphical) that provide the children and their
children (i.e., up to the grandchildren of each father in the surname list).
3) Count how many children they had (with all spouses), and the children
of those children in your records and/or database. Add those numbers to
the list. See my example below! [Note: Do not count the spouses of
the children]
4) What does this list of children and grandchildren tell you about these
persons in your birth surname line? Does this task indicate areas that
you need to do more research to fill out families and find potential cousins?
Here's mine:
This won’t be hard. My Hork line goes back into Westphalia,
Germany to the mid-1700s and I have certainly not researched forward every sibling
of my direct line.
I created a Descendancy Report from Rottger Horoch in
RootsMagic and selected 9 generations so I could capture the generation of my
newest grand-nephew. Here is a snip of it.
Horoch/Hork Surname Line
4xGG Rottger Horoch (1729-1816) married Dorothea Voss (??-1800).
They had 5 children and 11 grandchildren.
3xGG Johann
Horoch (1773-1826) married Anna Gertrud Sommer (1770-??). They had 5
children and 13 known grandchildren.**
2xGG Joseph Heinrich Horoch (1804-1857) married Maria Catharine
Trösster
(1813-1874). They had 10 children, 16 known grandchildren.**
GG Johan Anton (Horoch) Hork (1843-1906) married Julia Ann
Sievert (1854-1928). They had 10 children and 16 grandchildren.
Grandfather William Cyril Hork (1899-1967) married Anna Maria Sullivan (1892-1979). They had 5 children, 16 grandchildren, 36 known great-grandchildren, and 8 known 2x-great-grandchildren.***
** There are many children who have no listed spouse or
children, probably because I have not yet researched them.
*** There are many in the current generations (6-9) where I
do not have names of living descendants. There are likely more in both the 8th
and 9th generations.
What does this list tell me?
For the earlier generations, I
have perhaps not found everyone in the church records. Later generations (20th century)
had smaller families. Until recent times, all of these families were Roman
Catholic. At one of the sons became a priest. There may have been others who
joined religious organizations and I don’t find their marriage records.
Nine generations is really good. I wish I had that many.
ReplyDeleteOf course two of them are below me.
DeleteYou are lucky to have church records to search. My short line is because there are no records before the 1820s in my villages.
ReplyDeleteYes, no too much record loss. But I suspect priests did not always record events. And then, too, the German handwriting is so difficult to read.
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