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This shows the first 7 generations of my ancestry back to my great4-grandparents. Unfortunately, because vertical text format is not compatible with Microsoft Word's Webpage format, I cannot post this as a file. Also, Word will not allow one to split a column into more than 63 columns, which is why I had to enter my 64 great4-grandparents as couples in the same column, and why I cannot show more than 7 generations. These charts are a good way of seeing ancestor duplications in one's immediate ancestry for those of us (probably most of us) with inbreeding in our ancestry, which is inevitable for those whose ancestors lived in the same locality for generations. There are no ancestor duplications in the first 6 generations of my ancestry, but there is one in the 7th, Benjamin Godfrey, who is a great4-grandparent of mine 2 ways (meaning I have 63 instead of 64 great4-grandparents) because my great-grandfather, Gilbert Godfrey, was a product of 1/2-first cousins who both shared Benjamin Godfrey as a grandparent (being descended from different wives of his). If I could show 8 generations, there would be more duplications in my ancestry, for my great4-grandfathers Samuel Updike and William Updike were brothers and had as parents Amon Updike (1749-1828) and Hannah Harris (1753- ?). To complicate mattters even more, my great4-grandmother Sarah Updike Warner was a sister of my great3-grandfather William Updike, so that makes their parents, Samuel Updike and Jemima Willis, my great4-grandparents one way and my great5-grandparents another way, and makes Amon Updike and Hannah Harris, as well as all their ancestors, triple ancestors of mine. As one can see here, my father descends from Godfreys 3 ways and Sawyers 2 ways, and my mother's father was descended from Updikes 3 ways and Whites 2 ways. These charts are also a good way of viewing problematical areas in one's immediate ancestry at a glance by seeing where blanks are. I feel thankful I know the names of all my great3-grandparents, and that Alfred Turner is the only great3-grandparent whose parents' names I do not know. I have 3 more great4-grandmothers, all on my paternal side, whose maiden names I would like to know.
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