The Family Tree, Roots and All

Creating a descendency chart from Jean Baril (1st generation), who emmigrated to Canada in 1665 that includes every man and woman created by his union with three wives, would contain millions of people. Don't choke. In a G2G WikiTree Post, a researcher does the simple math based on each descendant having on average 4 children. The Baril families have been quite prolific, some having over 20 children. Having a dozen is not that unusual, Suzanne is 8th of 12 children born between 1942 and 1964. In 2020 there are 14 generations, the 14th currently having only one child in Suzanne's family. The simple math on how many surving descendants could exist today is (1 x 4 ^ 13) or 1 times 4 to the power of 13. 67,108,864 That is a lot of people. We know that Jean had 15 sons. Let's say that we are going to be more conservative by using only 3 as the number of children on average and use this based on the fact that, being primarily catholics, there were a larger number of priests and nuns in the family. The result is still quite high. 15 x (1 x 3 ^ 12) or 15 times (1 times 3 to the power of 12) which is a mere 7,971,615. Or roughly 8 million people. The table linked here will provide a visual that might help to 'groc' this huge task. Here is a PDF of my calculations. I'll update the files as I get new and confirmed data.

The following links take you to the most up to date GEDCOM files and links to various trees created by researchers all around the world as long as links to information about specfic individuals.

GEDCOMS

• Export from Suzannne's most recent unmodified Gedcom File from Ancestry.ca starting with Jean Baril
  1. File uploaded on January 3, 2021 does not contain links to documents on Ancestry.ca
  2. If links can be added to the files on Ancestry, they will, however if you don't have an account with Ancestry you may not be able to see them all.
  3. The program used to display the Gedcom file is from this web site.
  4. With a current account to Québec Généalogy, which contains the Drouin Collection, the plan is to make as many of the documents as possible available here; this will require an investigation of the copyright ramifications of doing that.

SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS

• Jean Baril