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Ancestor and census calculator
Every generation back doubles your ancestors. See how many you have in a generation, roughly when they were born, and which US censuses to search first. Nothing is stored.
Ancestors in that generation
32
- Generation
- 3rd great-grandparents
- Born around
- 1850
- All ancestors to here
- 62
- First census to check
- 1850
Your 3rd great-grandparents: 32 people, born around 1850. Look for them in the census from about 1850 on.
Birth years are rough estimates; real generations vary a lot. US censuses are released 72 years after they're taken, and most of the 1890 census was lost in a fire. In real trees, the same ancestor can appear more than once.
Where to look next
- Census records. See US census records.
- Every other record type. See records by type.
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