A.K.’s history is one of the first parts of the family tree I put together. His section is short and frustrating, because the name Josephs…
Alice Wilson’s Ahnentafel
An Anhentafel (German for “ancestor table”) is a scheme for numbering ancestors in strict sequence so that one can easily calculate relationships. The base person is number 1. Each father is assigned a number exactly double that of his child. Mothers are assigned a number equal to that of their husbands, plus 1.
So to navigate through the list: pick any person, note the assigned number, and you can find his or her father by doubling that number. The mother, if known, will be one digit higher and right next door. Likewise, to find anyone’s child, halve their assigned number and ignore any remainder. (Numbers missing from the sequence mean that we haven’t found that ancestor.)[...]
Kate Stott family tree
Click on the link, then enlarge on your screen. Grandma’s mother had some colorful people in her tree, including the pirate Thomas Baxter, the scandalous Quaker Herodias Long, and the Brooklyn landowner Wolffaert Gerritsz Van Kouwenhoven. Can’t wait to write about them.
John Magoun Pearson family tree
Click to embiggen, then enlarge on your screen. This tree is pretty complete on both sides and goes back 11 generations. Most of the fancy ancestors are courtesy of Mary Lord Hosford, wife of Jonathan Pearson.
Lyman Colt Josephs family tree
This is an 11-generation tree. You’ll need to click on the link, then enlarge the image on your screen to move around the tree.
Alice Vernon Wilson family tree
Click on the link to embiggen, then enlarge your screen picture to scroll around the tree. This is actually the family tree of Alice’s mother, Mary Jane Mathews, because we know so little about her father, Hugh Wilson.