this playlist here and to see our recent video, check this
documents that you see in your genealogical research. If you
need to figure out what her surname was, Townley, Porter,
column. One, five, three, seven two six four eight. And then
five, three, 7, confused yet, two, six, four, eight. Go ahead
know who married home. Now, we're going to return to our
will always know who married whom because you already had
and pause the video. Go compare your chart and then proceed.
and repeat the process and do your maternal line one
take from this slide one, three, two, four, 768 and put
are. In column one it's one, three, two, four, column two is
five, 7, six, eight and the other ones are not on this view
section right here but be sure to check the description for a
table. Now pay particular attention to where the numbers
From top to bottom, it's not one, two, three, four anymore.
have a color and you cut off that wedge and stack it up next
to the ones that are above. You'll see what I mean
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and so on and so forth. So now, all you have to do is go back
don't know what their surname was. Peak married Young, Hoppe
need to slow down even more. So, now the numbers are one,
thankfully, that's the last one we're going to use. Your number
each other. Now can you visually see what I'm talking
it. Just pretend that you pick you cut out geistler and peak
green. It was the first yellow. Here's another way to look at
it up. When you read across, you should always be able to
space so that we can see the top section of the paternal
step what we need to do is we need to shift our pedigree
it into your table so that your names look like this then go
on here. You could go here and click each of these arrows to
notice how the geisler married it's at the top. So it's
subsequent generations so make sure you pay attention to where
fan and wrote the names down but in this new version, I can
go on your surname table. Now, visually, this is what's
throughout the remainder of this video. Now for the next
different from the previous surname table. I just went
the row and one, two, three, four, you're going to have the
going. So, in the surname table, number one and number
going to grab the surnames that marry to the surnames that are
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put anything there. It's okay to have a blank space. You
fourth generation fourth great grandparents that you haven't
don't have to fill everything in but when you're done in the
you're going to take those names and then add them to the
who the ancestor is or you know the first name of the woman but
is just all of them are going to be in that first
grandparents first grandparents second great grandparents and
line and the numbers are going to change again which means you
moving a up the paternal line moving to them to that home
chart so that we can see more of our ancestors than what is
line showing, just my paternal line. So, I need to slow down
sense. So, notice how the numbers are going to change.
generation back grab all of those ancestors for your third
you don't know what her maiden name is. Leave it blank. Don't
first column you will know that Geisler married someone in. You
chart. If you ever have a surname where you don't know
always know whom who married whom based on where people are
Townley the second yellow because it's the the second
going to marry the first green. And the peak is going to marry
two are stacked on top of each other. Three and four are
So, now, when you look at the fourth grade grandparents and
completed. When you are done, now you have a powerful
and repeat the steps for the maternal side as well as the
take a moment and look at that. These are the surnames you're
going to grab and then you're go put them in the surname
if you then cut the wedge off of the purple section and line
pedigree chart and we're going to have shifted once again
great grandparents and fill it in that way and once again you
because we're just looking at the paternal branch. So slowly
confusing but if you'll slow down, it'll make a lot of
and you do too. This is when things start to get really
need. So, with the tree shifted, I now have my paternal
already on your chart but pay attention where the numbers are
Now, it's one, three, two, four, five, 7, six, eight. So,
person to this spot, then I'll grab the ancestors names that I
get the names but I found that if we will just move this
again, we're going to go back to our pedigree chart and now,
and then we're the pedigree chart and then we're going to
about? So every time you add a new generation you're going to
and then and townly and then you shifted it right next to
future video. That's pretty easy. Actually, some of you
name that's covered up by the one. Zemstein already appears
really it's Hankinson but we'll come back to that later in a
name change, we'll have another video that shows how you mark
in the chart. Brown already appears in my chart and then in
around the fan and wrote the names down and went around the
in the generations and where they are in the column. So
the numbers are on your pedigree chart and where they
stacked on top of each other. If you try to just go across
brown married Townsend, and long married Anderson. Well,
we're in the Second, great grandparents column. You're
that later but we're those names already appear in the
and we're going to grab the next surnames. Notice that
we're going to go to the great grandparents but we're only
wrong people marry in your lines and that's going to make
the surname table really confusing. It gets worse in sub
could already have filled this out without going back to the
extract the surnames to our surname table. So now, once
I'll make sure that I respond to make sure that you can be
going to grab the maternal surnames because Geisler
three, and four. So, Geisler married peak. Zemstein Comfort,
building. So, now, we're going to take the one, two,
chart but step by step, we're going to go back to the chart
successful. Now, we're going to go back to our pedigree chart
questions, make sure you use the comment section below and
grandmother is long. Make sense? If you have any
this case, Hankinson there was a name change. We'll talk about
name changes on your chart but for now, let's just keep
chart so I'm going to grab the maternal ones. If you do have a
surname is Zempstein, maternal grandfather was brown, maternal
going to go around your fan or down your pedigree and you're
grandfather is named Geisler. My paternal grandmother's
already appears in my chart. Townley does not. That's the
going to add each name. So, like so. So, my paternal
the fan chart, the furthest one on the left and then you're
the males and the females for row one and you're going to put
them in your table just like so. So, the first surname is
that first one at the top of the chart or if you're using
surname table. Step by step. In this video, we're going to use
that, those are the names that are the female that married
that is your male names, your male ancestral names and below
grandparents and you're going to take their surnames,
Heritage, or any program that you have. So, what you're
ancestry to build our tree but you can use Family Search, My
going to do is you're going to take your four great
reference guide where at the top in the grandparent row,
and write your ancestors stories along the way. So, this
have all of the information on your family tree, just a quick
is surname table. Notice, it's not fancy. It's not designed to
into your line. We'll go ahead and show you how to create your
where we help you understand DNA, climb your family tree,
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try. History that we have. We use them to find DNA discoveries and
We use surname tables to help us organize our files know what
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to keep and who we actually are related in all these documents