It is elegantly simple.
1. your name 2. your father 3. your mother 4. your father’s father 5. your father’s mother 6. your mother’s father 7. your mother’s mother 8. your father’s father’s father 9. your father’s father’s mother 10. your father’s mother’s father 11. your father’s mother’s mother 12. your mother’s father’s father 13. your mother’s father’s mother 14. your mother’s mother’s father 15. your mother’s mother’s mother 16-31. your great-great-grandparents 32-63. your great-great-great grandparents 1. person 2. father (1*2) 3. mother (1*2+1) 4. paternal grandfather (2*2) 5. paternal grandmother (2*2+1) 6. maternal grandfather (4*2) 7. maternal grandmother (4*2+1) 8. paternal grandfather's father - great grandfather (4*2) 9. paternal grandfather's mother - great grandmother (4*2+1) 10.paternal grandmother's father - great grandfather (5*2) 11. paternal grandmother's mother - great grandmother (5*2+1) 12. maternal grandfather's father - great grandfather (6*2) 13. maternal grandfather's mother - great grandmother (6*2+1) 14. maternal grandmother's father - great grandfather (7*2) 15. maternal grandmother's mother - great grandmother (7*2+1) Translating this to a real person, here is an excerpt from the Ahnentafel of one well-known American, complete with Ahnentafel numbers: George Walker Bush, b. New Haven, Conn., 6 July 1946, m. 5 Nov. 1977, Laura Lane WelchGeorge Herbert Walker Bush, b. Milton, Mass., 12 June 1924, m. Rye, N.Y., 6 Jan. 1945Barbara PiercePrescott Sheldon Bush, b. Columbus, Ohio, 15 May 1895, m. Kennebunkport, Maine, 6 Aug. 1921, d. New York, N.Y., 8 Oct. 1972Dorothy Walker, b. near Walker's Point, York Co., Me., 1 July 1901, d. Greenwich, Conn., 19 Nov. 1992 Marvin Pierce, b. Sharpsville, Pa., 17 June 1893, m. Aug. 1918, d. Rye, N.Y., 17 July 1969Pauline Robinson, b. Ohio, April 1896, d. Rye, N.Y., 23 Sept. 1949Samuel Prescott Bush, b. Brick Church, N.J., 4 Oct. 1863, m. Columbus, Ohio, 20 June 1894, d. Columbus, Ohio, 8 Feb. 1948Flora Sheldon, b. Franklin Co., Ohio, 17 Mar. 1872, d. "Watch Hill", R.I., 4 Sept. 1920George Herbert Walker, b. St. Louis, Mo., 11 June 1875, m. St. Louis, Mo., 17 Jan. 1899, d. New York, N.Y., 24 June 1953Lucretia [Loulie] Wear, b. St. Louis, Mo., 17 Sept. 1874, d. Biddeford, Me., 28 Aug. 1961 Scott Pierce, b. Sparkville, Pa., 18 Jan. [or June?] 1866, m. 26 Nov. 1891Mabel Marvin, b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 4 June 1869James Edgar Robinson, b. near Marysville, Oh., 15 Aug. 1868, m. Marion Co., Ohio, 31 March 1895, d. 1931Lula Dell Flickinger, b. Byhalia, Ohio, March 187 CE Cheers, Carolyn > From: br...@legacyfamilytree.com > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ahnentafel Report > Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 12:55:17 -0400 > > We are happy to consider suggestions for new features. > > In Legacy 6.0 and later you can suggest a new feature by clicking on the > link on the Legacy Home Tab Support Section > > Other users can make a suggestion here: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Suggest.asp > Use the drop down list in the first box to select a category, Legacy 8.0 > or Legacy Charting. > > If you have a sample report layout of your version of the "traditional" > ahnentafel report include that so we can see exactly what the layout you > want is. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > br...@legacyfamilytree.com > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > On 18/05/2015 11:10 AM, Gene Wheeler wrote: > > Neither of these reports are what I call a "traditional" ahnentafel > > report. Are you familiar with what that is? It is linear, without > > individual details except for DOB and place, and DOD and place; individual > > couple separated by generation numbering. This report is far more > > condensed than that two you mentioned. Individuals are numbered, and you > > double that number to find the father's number, and add one to find the > > mother. > > > > Gene Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
