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July 29th, 2025 at 01:18 am

Ahnentafel Numbering System

in: Facts Matter,Genealogy
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Things I am learning more about today –

How To Pronounce Ahnentafel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Z-aq4s-90

What is the Ahnentafel?
According to wikipedia:
Ahnentafel, also known as the Eytzinger Method, Sosa Method, and Sosa-Stradonitz Method, allows for the numbering of ancestors beginning with a descendant.
I like the Ahnentafel system because it is a nice balance between “just the facts”and a bit of narrative. Now I just need to learn how to properly modify the standard template in RootsMagic to include comments & notes.

Shown below is an image from Wikipedia that is from “The first Ahnentafel, published by Michaël Eytzinger in Thesaurus principum hac aetate in Europa viventium Cologne: 1590, pp. 146-147, in which Eytzinger first illustrates his new functional theory of numeration of ancestors; this schema showing Henry III of France as n° 1, de cujus, with his ancestors in five generations.”

 

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