Lineage
The ancestral code: what comes to you along the line through your surname
Your first name was chosen for you. Your surname was chosen by no one alive — it came down through the generations. And it, too, has its own number.
The surname as inheritance
A first name gives a person their individual theme. A surname adds the theme of the line — what repeats in a family from one generation to the next. The maiden name on the mother's side matters especially: it is often lost in documents, yet it is what preserves the continuity of the line.
Three generations on one page
The full lineage code is drawn from the maiden surnames of three generations on both lines: you, your parents, your grandparents. Together they yield a number that describes not one person's character but a thread running through the family. It often explains what seemed like coincidence.
For the line — a separate archive
If the subject is not one person but a whole line, there is the Lineage Archive for that: it is kept across three generations and updated when new names appear in the family — a birth, a marriage, a change of surname. So the line stays described as a whole, not one person at a time.
Try it on your own name
Each article describes part of the method. The free calculation on the home page shows these numbers for your own name, with the arithmetic open under each one.