In the upper left corner of every page is a menu icon ( ). Click it to open a side-menu with links to other parts of the site.

The "ancestors" sub-menu is the most useful. It links to pages that show my ancestors arranged/grouped in various ways.

By default, an ahnentafel number is shown as a subscript before each ancestor's name, like this: 174Thomas Logue. Source citation numbers are shown as superscripts at the end of phrases/sentences, like this.1 If these numbers are visually distracting, you can turn them off using the buttons at the bottom of the side-menu. The buttons look like this:

ahnentafel and citation # display:

both | neither | citations only

Although not shown above, most pages also have a "print-friendly" button. It's similar to "citations only" but with a few changes to make a page more suitable for printing.

To close the menu, just click again.

Ahnentafel is a numeric system to keep track of a person's ancestors.

The most recently born person whose ancestry you're interested in, he (or she) is always #1. Since this website is about my ancestors, I'm #1.

Whatever ahnentafel number someone has, his or her father's number is always double, and his or her mother's number is always double + 1. Therefore, my father is #2 (because 1 × 2 = 2), and my mother is #3 (1 × 2 + 1 = 3).

The numbers just continue logically from there: My father's father is #4. My father's mother is #5. My mother's father is #6, and my mother's mother is #7.

The popular, centralized genealogy sites are overrun with conflicts of interest, deceitful business tactics, and other problems. A few examples:

(1)	taking over resources that were built by volunteers, then deliberately suppressing/destroying them, and then doing it again
(2)	actively conspiring with the government to spy on customers, then lying about it
(3)	trapping unwitting customers into perpetually paying—year after year—to continue accessing their own work

De-centralization of genealogy research findings is the only way to fundamentally solve these kinds of problems once and for all.

YES!

I've tried hard not to mention anyone who's still living, and I've redacted the names of many of my close, recent relatives (even if they're deceased). However, if you still have a privacy concern, please contact me, and I'll do my best to fix the problem.

I don't collect data about this website's visitors, but if you don't trust me (or my webhost), I also self-host an onion mirror site on the Tor network: http://ancestorizuc6xjt4saz4gwiqbkkjnupz5naijcckhnotmsgggkipiid.onion/

Because of the abuse of genealogy data by law enforcement, I provide a warrant canary, updated at least every six months.

Facebook is evil, so this website contains no Facebook trackers.

Google is evil, so this website does not use Google Analytics or Google Fonts. I don't use Gmail, so any emails that you send me won't be intercepted by Google (at least not from my end). The use of other Google resources (e.g., Google Books, Youtube, Google Maps) is kept to a bare minimum—only on a few pages and only when no viable alternative exists.

Amazon is evil, so this website is not hosted on Amazon's AWS servers.

To learn more about online privacy and how to protect yourself, I recommend The New Oil and Privacy Guides.

Occasionally, I post a back-up copy of all the files used for this website. Naturally, the back-up copy will not include any recent changes to the site.

You can find the most recent back-up here. The file name indicates the date when the back-up was created (in YYYYMMDD format). Due to the use of PHP include statements, you may need to set up a localhost (with Apache, XAMPP, or Nginx) to view the pages in a user-friendly manner.