My Trails into the Past

Yvette Hoitink in her blog Dutch Genealogy , wrote a post “Six Levels of Ancestral Profiles – Level Up Challenge!” at the beginning of 2021. In the post, she listed the six levels. I have summarized them here:  Level 0: Know nothing about the ancestor Level 1: Know their name only Level 2: Know their vital statistics Level 3: Know their occupation, residence, children, and spouses Level 4: Know they owned land, served in the military, their religion, and possible criminal activity Level 5: Exhaustive research has been conducted to meet the GPS. This includes knowing their parents, resolving any conflicts, and writing up a conclusion. Level 6: Written a biography with historical context I decided to see where I stood with this Level Up Challenge. I started by printing out the Ahnentafel report from my RootsMagic database out seven generations, as that is the limit of the chart from Yvette’s blog to help me track the levels. I recorded Ahnentafel numbers for each of my...