Re: [PAF] Terminology question

[klary-jr@hannaford.com]

My first guess wold be that the individual you are wondering about was
incorrectly connected to his or her ancestors.  I discovered a similar
error when I actually generated my text for a book.  I went back into PAF,
fixed the connection, re-generated, and everything was fine.

Just in case you find this is not the situation, there is no mathematical
way that an individual would be two generations different from the book to
your generated copy if all other things are the same.  If this were the
case, then every individual in that generation would be two generations
different from the book.

Chip Lary



                                                                                              
                    Cheryl Singhal                                                            
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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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