With this version I've made a change to the data presentation: I suppress the pedigree page in certain cases where it would have no useful information at all. The page is only suppressed when the individual has no parents in the database, no alternates, no notes, no date or place information, a shortish name, only one child shown, and when the spouse, if any is shown, shows only the one child. Since some names are abbreviated on some pages to keep the page printable, I The name continues to appear on the spouse and descendant pages where it would normally appear, but without a clickable link. The name continues to appear on index pages, but the clickable link will take to you to the person's child. (I've done this, in part, because the website has grown almost to fill a complete CD-Rom; this will enable me to expand a little more without leaving anything out.)
At this time there are 9061 individuals who fit these suppression criteria. Version 16 would have 103,966 pedigree pages, but because of these omissions has only 94,905 pages. There's still just as much information as before: the pages eliminated contributed nothing. To depict database growth with consistency, I'll continue to refer to the full "103,966 pedigree pages" even though some are suppressed.
The database continues to grow, selectively. Version 16 has 103,966 pedigree pages. Over the years I've eventually included 14 U.S. Presidents: Washington, two Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, two Harrisons, Pierce, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, and two Roosevelts. No new Presidents for Version 16, unless you count Barack Obama, who is, as I write, the front-runner to be 44th President.
There are 101 persons on Hart's famous list of Most Influential Persons (counting the Wright brothers as one, but including both of the major 'Shakespeare' candidates); 32 of them are now in my database. I've added Charles Darwin, Vasco da Gama, and William Shakespeare for Version 16; Hernando Cortez, Isaac Newton, and Francis Bacon were also added recently; the other 26 were in my database for other reasons before I'd ever heard of Hart's list.
I've added a few famous Americans including Harriet Beecher Stowe (who inherits her mtDNA from my ancestor Agnes Harris) and Jonathan Edwards. I've filled in several missing parts from royal pedigrees, especially French, Portuguese, Spanish and early Welsh ancestors. I was missing the d' ARPAJON family; in adding its connections coverage was increased for several other French families. And so on, and so on.
The Fabulous Pedigree Version 16 is available on-line at fabpedigree.com, or on CD-Rom. For anyone who purchased a CD-Rom before Version 16, write me and I will mail you a free copy of the Version 16 CD. (Only one free CD per paid order: If you take the free Version 16 CD, you'll need to pay for Version 17 CD, if there ever is such a thing.)
Nikolai Scheuring provided us with a chart showing the Most Recent Common Ancestor of today's European Monarchs.
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