The Tree of Me

My husband's family are very fortunate as his great grandfather, Jacob Scheef travelled on holiday to Germany from Armidale, NSW from May to September 1885. While visiting remaining members of his family he sent many letters back to Australia and kept a diary of his time away from home. Jacob Scheef John Elder Melbourne the 14 May 1885 Dear Wife and Children! I am in receipt of your letter which I received in  Sydney just half an hour before we started from  which I see that you are all well except David and  I trust you will take good care of him with his cold  and am glad that you had some rain the white  bullock you can either kill or sell him if you can get  £5 - 10s for him and break the Strawberry or roan bullock  in with Glover. We left Sydney on the 12 this month at 1 1/2 clock and the  Sydney Harbour I can give you no idea for his beauty  and grandeur every half hour of steaming it presents a fresh panorama after coming outside on the open sea  my shipmates began the work

In 2020 I wrote a post about my tree completeness with the results below. Since then I have made some progress and unfortunately some regress in my more distant ancestors. Sharon's tree completeness April 2020 Sharon's tree completeness April 2021 Sharon's tree completeness May 2023 4G grandparents I now know the names of 39 out of 64 of my 4g grandparents which is 2 less that 2020. Obviously I had research which has not proved to be incorrect. 5G grandparents From 37 of 128 to 44 of 128 6G grandparents From 27 of 256 to 37 of 256 7G grandparents 9 of 512 to 30 of 512 8G grandparents 7 of 1024 to 14 of 1024 9G grandparents 3 of 2048 to 5 of 2048 10G grandparents None in 2020 to 2 of 4096 I wonder when I will reach saturation? I'm forever grateful to those who transcribe records and their subsequent availability online.