[PAF] Non-member submission from [Jack Chandler <jackchandler@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>]

["Ed Rogers" <ed.rogers@innernet.org>]

Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:18:13 -0800
To: paf@innernet.org
From: Jack Chandler <jackchandler@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: [PAF] Terminology question
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At 04:42 PM 3/18/1973 -0500, Cheryl wrote:

>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!

The answer may be discovered by reviewing an AHNTEFAL chart of the
DESCENDANT.
If the ANCESTOR shows up in more than one generation or is listed more than
once in any one
generation, then there are existing COUSIN MARRIAGES In the descent lines.

If you are using PAF 2.2/2.31 database, then another method is to use the
program AHNDES.EXE
which will find ALL the existing DIRECT LINE descents between a descendant
and the ancestory.
AHNDES.EXE will not work  with PAF3.0/4.0/5.0 databases.

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