Setting Our Ahnentafel

In the interests of preserving the evidence of my family's past and of making its dissemination completely free, I've decided to begin a new blog devoted entirely to those purposes.

The word Ahnentafel is a German word meaning "ancestor-table." Ahnentafels are the most logical way I know to arrange the facts of one's family tree. I also choose the word itself for the title of this blog to reflect my own German ancestry. The rest of the title was chosen in my belief that genealogy is an inexhaustible and ongoing pursuit that necessarily involves the contributions of others. It is never finished, but it is what I am bringing to the table.

Although Ahnentafels are logically-organized, this blog will not be. It will probably read more like random pages from my notebooks and shoeboxes. But the idea here is to share what I have and to make it all searchable and useful to other researchers.

Setting Our Ahnentafel will develop its rules and criteria as we go along, but, for now, enjoy what I can provide and please feel free to write me back to let me know what you think.

Thanks.