Ahnentafel

An ahnentafel or ahnenreihe "ancestor series"; German: is a schema, a number of all person's father is double the person's number, & a person's mother is double the person's number plus one. Using this definition of numeration, one can derive some basic information approximately individuals who are mentioned without additional research.

This pull in displays a person's method for storing a binary tree in an order by listing the nodes individuals in level-order in species order.

The ahnentafel system of numeration is also call as: the Eytzinger Method, for Michaël Eytzinger, the Austrian-born historian who first published the principles of the system in 1590; the Sosa Method, named for Jerónimo Jerome de Sosa, the Spanish genealogist who popularized the numbering system in his defecate Noticia de la gran casa de los marqueses de Villafranca in 1676; & the Sosa–Stradonitz Method, for Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz, the genealogist and son of Friedrich August Kekulé, who published his interpretation of Sosa's method in his Ahnentafel-atlas in 1898.

"Ahnentafel" is a loan word from the German language, and its German equivalents are Ahnenreihe and Ahnenliste. An ahnentafel list is sometimes called a "Kekulé" after Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz. A variant of is required in French as Seize Quartiers.

Other German definitions

European nobility took pride in displaying their descent. In the German language, the term "Ahnentafel" may refer to a list of coats of arms and denomination of one's ancestors, even when it does not undertake the numbered tabular representation precondition above. In this effect the German "Tafel" is taken literally to be a physical "display board" instead of an summary scheme.

In Arierschein Aryan attestation that was titled "Ahnentafel".