[PAF] Terminology question

[Cheryl Singhal <csinghal@CapAccess.org>]

When I print out a DESCENDANCY chart from PAF, beginning with RIN #1, I 
get a many-page printout, with 13 generations showing.

THIS is good, because the data came from a published book which showed 12 
generations, and one of that 12th generation has had a child. (g)

What's puzzling me is -- In the book, ID# 6013 is shown in the 8th 
generation, but on the chart it's showing in the 9th generation.  *BOTH* 
these begin with the same person in position 1 -- Common Progenitor.

And, the reason I looked into it in the first place, when I used the same 
database to print (using a 3rd party utility called GENBOOK), it gave me 
only 11 generations.

So, OK -- could one of you math whizzes explain (in words of two or fewer 
syllables, please) what's going on? 

If Common Progenitor is Generation #1, and ALL the same descendants are 
in all places, why aren't there the same number of generations?  Now, 
maybe, if one posited that although Common Progenitor is in Position 1, 
it's his children who are really Generation #1, that would explain the 
8th gen or 9th gen difference; it wouldn't explain the difference between 
11 gens and 13.

And the *real* question at hand is -- Did GenBook get all the 
descendants? I really do not want to print out a 100-page or so 
descendancy chart and sit there doing a find next on every name on it!

Cheryl
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