Descendant Genealogy

Descendant Genealogy involves traceing the descendants of a given ancestor, or ancestral pair. There are many suc genealogies that have been published. These documents, though varying widely in their extent of coverage and accuracy, are often useful to researchers because they broad based coverage of a relatively limited number of surnames, often with a specific geographic focus. Because they include numerous descendant lines, they tend to have a more extensive audience than Ancestral Genealogies which trace the ancestral line of descent to a given person.