Re: [PAF] Terminology question

["Joan Raney" <raneyj@Rex.queens.edu>]

On 20 Mar 2073, at 15:44, Cheryl Singhal wrote:

> And here it is Tuesday and a different problem.
> 
> Running the COUNT DESCENDANTS feature, PAF says RIN #6 has 211 
> descendants, RIN #8 has 688, and RIN #17327 has 1432.
> 
> So, just to annoy myself, I ran GENBOOK on each of those RINs,
> including all stepchildren.  GENBOOK found 25 descendants for RIN 6;
> 119 for RIN 8; and 98 for RIN 17327.
> 
> Now just to refresh the ol' memory, There are over 23,000 people in
> this data, of whom 13,640 (or possibly 13,575, depending on the day of
> the month you ask PAF) descend from RIN #1 (father of RINs 6, 8, and
> 17327); GenBook produced a list of somewhere in the ballpark of those
> two. 
> 
> Sooooo, if PAF and GenBook can agree there are 13,000+ descendants of
> #1, why the huge discrepancy on the count for the others?

Let me throw a potential wrench into the works here:

Are any of these descendants counted more than once in one 
program but not the other program?  I. E. any of these 
descendants have ancestral lines that converge?  Am I making any 
sense here?  I'm not quite sure how to say what I want to say 
here...  I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.  Just 
something to think about.

Of course, in the year 2073, my poor old computer is way too old 
to even function properly by then... ;-)

Joan Raney
Charlotte, NC
raneyj@rex.queens.edu
raneys@earthlink.net
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