ahnentafel

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ahnentafel

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Borrowed from German Ahnentafel (literally “ancestors table”).

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A genealogical numbering system for listing a person's direct ancestors. To avoid the difficulties caused by this inventive numbering, three basic numbering formats are widely accepted in genealogical circles: the ahnentafel system for ascending genealogies, and the Register and NGS Quarterly systems for […]

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@misc{ahnentafel_2026,
  title = {ahnentafel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ahnentafel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}