Inspired by the Ancestor Score - also called “Completeness Statistics” - of other blogs and GeneaNet's definition (below), I generated my first one in February 2016. Since then I haven't been able to increase my ancestors yearly, because I also had to remove wrong ancestors*** once in a while. For that reason I had to delete the ancestor score of 2017, and created a new 2018 score in August of that year, so that's why 2017 is missing.
My Ancestor Score
at generation 10 in the period 1600-1722 is 79.88%. It will always remain 79.88%, because some cousins intermarried in generation 7. The total
number of my “known” ancestors - starting with my parents (generation 2)
- is now 5344.
The generation with the most known ancestors is the 13th generation with 843 people. That's just 20,58% of the theoretically maximum number of ancestors in that 13th generation. In the 12th generation I've found 838 ancestors so far, and that's 40.92% of the theoretical maximum.
The human sex ratio at birth differs. Every year slightly more boys are born than girls. The ‘natural’ sex ratio at birth is around 103-107 boys per 100 girls. Genealogy is actually even more male-biased, because the males usually owned the properties, so it's mostly males that can be traced in property records when church records are missing. For example, of the ancestors found in the 13th generation 43% is female, and 57% is male. In the 16th generation it's even worse with 64% males.
My ancestors mostly originate in the provinces of South Holland and North Brabant (mostly in the part that belonged to Holland before 1800) - with in recent years an increase in the number of medieval ancestors in the province of Utrecht.
Composition and Bandwidth of various Generations
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Generation
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Composition
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Bandwidth **
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Men
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Women
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Total
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% 2022
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% 2021
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% 2020
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% 2019
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% 2018*
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% 2016
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From
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Until
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G 3
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2
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2
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4
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100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
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1892
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1906
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G 4
|
4
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4
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8
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
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1850
|
1880
|
G 5
|
8
|
8
|
16
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
1804
|
1857
|
G 6
|
16
|
16
|
32
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
1756
|
1832
|
G 7
|
30
|
30
|
60
|
93.8
|
93.8
|
93.8
|
93.8
|
93.8
|
93.8
|
1724
|
1802
|
G 8
|
59
|
59
|
118
|
92.2
|
92.2
|
92.2
|
92.2
|
92.2
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90.6
|
1680
|
1777
|
G 9
|
114
|
113
|
227
|
88.7
|
88.7
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89.1
|
89.1
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88.3
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86.7
|
1645
|
1750
|
G 10
|
207
|
202
|
409
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79.9
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79.7
|
79.7
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79.5
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78.7
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76.4
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1600
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1722
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G 11
|
343
|
316
|
659
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64.4
|
62.4
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61.8
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61.2
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60.8
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57.0
|
1560
|
1695
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G 12
|
450
|
388
|
838
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40.9
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39.0
|
38.4
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37.6
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37.3
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33.8
|
1510
|
1666
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G 13
|
479
|
364
|
843
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20.6
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19.0
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18.7
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18.1
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17.9
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15.7
|
1505
|
1645
|
G 14
|
431
|
305
|
736
| 9.0
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7.6
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7.3
|
7.0
|
7.1
|
6.1
|
1440
|
1625
|
G 15
|
316
|
204
|
520
|
3.2
|
2.5
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2.3
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2.0
|
2.0
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1.6
|
1440
|
1580
|
G 16
|
183
|
106
|
289
|
0.9
|
0.7
|
0.6
|
0.6
|
0.6
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0.5
|
1395
|
1540
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*) The years 2016, 2019 and 2020 feature an ancestor score of February, 2018 has an August score, 2021 and 2022 have a January score..
**) The Bandwidth of a generation is determined by the earliest and latest known birth or baptism date within that generation.
***) I have many ancestors in places like Sint Anthoniepolder, 's-Gravendeel, Wieldrecht and Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, where pre-1800 baptism records are missing.
I'm doing genealogy using the Dutch Aldfaer family tree software, and its database currently contains 145600 individuals.
Further Reading: Geneanet's Ancestor Score Definition, Equivalent Complete Generations, Identical Ancestors Point, Coefficient Of Relationship, Gender Ration, Completeness Index.
Hi Joan, I wasn't aware of these statistics in this format until I read your blog post. In GensDataPro these statistics are generated automatically. For me these % are:
ReplyDeleteGeneratie I: 100.00 % (1 van 1)
Generatie II: 100.00 % (2 van 2)
Generatie III: 100.00 % (4 van 4)
Generatie IV: 100.00 % (8 van 8)
Generatie V: 100.00 % (16 van 16)
Generatie VI: 100.00 % (32 van 32)
Generatie VII: 95.31 % (61 van 64)
Generatie VIII: 32.81 % (42 van 128)
Generatie IX: 15.63 % (40 van 256)
Generatie X: 3.52 % (18 van 512)
Generatie XI: 1.46 % (15 van 1024)
Generatie XII: 0.78 % (16 van 2048)
Generatie XIII: 0.10 % (4 van 4096)
Generatie XIV: 0.00 % (0 van 8192)
As you can see there is some digging to be done.
Being on the subject, do you know Yvette Hoitinks 'Challenge to complete your ancestral profiles'?
It focuses more on the quality of one's research. In case you are interested here is my result: https://patmcast.blogspot.com/2021/02/challenge-to-complete-your-ancestral.html
The outcome for me was that I could see at a glance what I had to do.
In the meantime, keep blogging, I like reading them!
Kind regards,
Peter Miebies
Thanks Peter. Thanks for your statistics. I don't think I can comply with Yvette's quality, for I have a lot of ancestors in places like 's-Gravendeel, Sint-Anthoniepolder, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and Wieldrecht, where all or most of the baptism records have been destroyed (in 's-Gravendeel/Wieldrecht) or lost. I do use Aldfaer, so I can set the quality of a link (sure, likely, possibly) between parents and children or between spouses.
DeleteJoan, thanks for giving me the link to this post. I hadn't thought of further dividing between males and females. I think I noticed this in one of your previous year's posts but never followed up on it.
ReplyDeleteSee Cathy's Ancestor Score Post here:
ReplyDeletehttps://openingdoorsinbrickwalls.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/my-ancestor-score-as-of-valentines-day-2022/
See Barbara's Ancestor Score Post here:
ReplyDeletehttps://connectingtheworlds.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/my-ancestor-score-2022/