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What began merely as an interest in the origins of one of my first beagles has become a hobby that I thoroughly enjoy.
I currently maintain a database of 68,000 (and growing) individual beagles in a home-grown application that can research a beagle pedigree 50 generations or more.
If you already have a 4 or more generation pedigree, chances are that I can research at least a portion of it many more generations in just minutes.
Since I would go broke trying to print traditional 50 generation pedigrees, the output of my program
(sample)
is a list of the individuals found in the pedigree from the database, the generation in which they are first found, the number of instances they are found, and if available, sire, dam, height, color, stud book date, registration number and other notes.
I recently had occasion to describe my program to a prominent Cincinnati businessman (and beagler) who proclaimed that it was impossible to do such a thing and got somewhat 'red-necked' about it until I showed him a pedigree done on one of my own hounds.
He did concede that it could in fact be done.
A fellow member of the
beagle club
to which I belong asked me if I could research his beagle's pedigree.
He gave me a 4 generation pedigree that he had obtained from one of the services that offer up to 7 generation pedigrees.
After including his information in the database a search produced a 50 generation pedigree containing 1309 individual beagles occurring 18,406,675 times in 12 minutes and 19 seconds.
This is not a complete 50 generation pedigree by any means because the database is limited in size.
It would take 2^50
( or 1,125,899,906,842,620 )
occurrences to complete the 50th generation alone.
( only
half that many for the
49th ).
I know I'm going to get some red hot
e-mail
telling me that I'm really stupid because there have never been that many beagles ever.
Well, you're right! ( Not about me being stupid, but that there have never been that many beagles! )
But when you consider breeding practices and the size of the gene pool you will see that the same individuals can be listed literally millions of times in the same pedigree.
Please notice that it states earlier 2^50 OCCURRENCES, not beagles.
If you still don't believe me,
e-mail
your concern and I'll send you a lengthier explanation.
The number 50 keeps coming up a lot for the amount of generations.
This is only coincidence.
The program is not limited to any certain number of generations.
It will continue to look up information until it exhausts all the available data like an internet search engine looking for links.
With the database that I now have, 50 generations is about the average for each beagle that I research.
There are occasions when a pedigree just doesn't 'hook-up' to the database.
You're then left with a couple of options:
1 ) Pay
one of the pedigree services for a 7 generation pedigree and re-submit.
2 ) Buy
a complete set of stud books and research on your own. or
3 ) Forget
the whole thing, sell your beagles and enjoy the rest of your life. ;-)
Often the breeder of your hounds can supply an extensive pedigree if you ask for one.
Anyway! The real reason for this long, drawn out page.
If you are curious about your beagle's ancestors, have a 4 or more generation pedigree on hand and are willing to part with a few hard earned dollars, read on.
For $1.00 per minute of research cpu time (pentium - $5.00 minimum, $60.00 maximum), I'll enter your pedigree into the database, research it and provide you with the results.
We will have to depend on the old fashioned US Mail to get all this information into each others hands for now.
If this gets popular I'll use a more electronic means to send and receive info.
For more information
e-mail
me at beagle_guy1@yahoo.com.
I'll reply as soon as possible.
Remember to include an accurate return e-mail address, otherwise I cannot reply.
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