An ancestor table (from German language ahnentafel) is a family tree where people are shown in a numbered list instead of a tree. This system makes it easy to follow a person's family history across many generations.
In the table, a person is listed as number 1, the father is 2, the mother is 3. Then, the grandparents can be added:
- the father's father is 4
- the father's mother is 5
- the mother's father is 6
- and the mother's mother is 7.
This can continue even farther, including the great-grandparents:
- the father's father's father is 8
- the father's father's mother is 9
- the father's mother's father is 10
- and so on.
