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Re: [PAF] Terminology question
NOW it's getting really wierd.
Turns out to be 45 individuals on the Descendency Chart in Gen 13. I
pulled out 6 at evidently not-very-random, and they all descend from one
person in Gen 3 or 4. I'll have to check the others.
But, for another reason, I ran the SAME database through PAF 4 and
printed a book to file. SAME DATABASE, I said. Book has 11 generations.
SOMETHING is mismatched between the way PAF counts generations and
the way the Modified Register counts them. Question is -- WHAT?
Cheryl
On Mon, 19 Mar 1973, Cheryl Singhal wrote:
>
> It's not just one individual. On a quick count of one screen with the
> descendency chart's 13th generation showing, I found 14 people. Still,
> since it was all on one screen, theoretically the error could have been
> 12 gens earlier ... I'll check the rest of the file and see if they're
> all off one line.
>
> I was afraid I was right about the math, but (g) as you all know, math
> isn't my strong suit, so I was hoping there was a reasonable explanation.
>
> Thanks, Chip!
>
> Cheryl
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 klary-jr@hannaford.com wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> > <csinghal@CapA To: paf-list <paf@innernet.org>
> > ccess.org> cc:
> > Sent by: Subject: [PAF] Terminology question
> > paf@ufo.netson
> > ic.fi
> >
> >
> > 03/18/73 04:42
> > PM
> > Please respond
> > to paf
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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