

The Adapted Ahnenlist article was published in 2010, just before the articles that introduced scientific genealogy, and that shows.
#Easy numbering system for ancestors software
The only one I know of is one I created and called the Extended Ahnenlist, introduced in Adapted Ahnenlist.Īlas, using an Extended Ahnenlist is easier said than done, because no genealogy software provides this report type it yet. You desire is to show both fathers in the same ahnenlist, and still use ahnen numbering.Īdopted children are easily accommodated in descendancy reports,īut there seem to be few attempts to accommodate multiple pairs of parents in ancestral overviews. That way, they'd receive the same report number in two different reports.

You can show the biological father in one report, and the adoptive father in another. Two fathers can be assigned the same report number, just not at the same time, in the same report. Simply assigning the same number to both fathers is a no-no different individuals must have different numbers. When there is both a biological and an adoptive father in the same slot, there still is just one number for that slot. When pedigree collapse occurs, a single ancestors appears in multiple slots, and thus has multiple ahnen numbers. More precisely, it actually does not number ancestors,īut ancestral slots, whether any ancestors are known or not, and it assigns just one number to each slot. The ahnen numbering system is a straightforward method of numbering ancestors.
