Ahnentafel numbering is used by Legacy when you do an ancestor report. Since it is based on a starting person, each time you make a report for a new person the numbers will change because the ancestors will be different. It is not a good system for numbering people in your file if you have any lateral lines in your research (you do say you plan to branch sideways later) or if you include siblings of your ancestors since those people have no valid number in that system.
RIN numbers are created automatically by Legacy each time you add a person, personally those are the numbers I display on Family View and name lists and I include them in reports as well. It is simple since there is no extra maintenance work involved. I rarely concern myself with any numeric system because I do not have piles of paper files to organize. I keep my digital files on my computer and use linking in Legacy to link sources, people etc. to those files using the media galleries for people and sources. AFN is a numbering system by the LDS church in their Ancestral File. I think that has been replaced with the new FamilySearch ID but since I am not LDS neither AFN nor FamilySearch ID are that important to me. I have linked some people in my file and have imported others through FamilySearch so there are some in my file with FamilySearch IDs. Legacy will automatically fill in the FamilySearch ID numbers for anyone in your file that is linked to someone in FamilySearch. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 04-Jun-13 8:48 AM, lio . wrote: > What numbering system do most people use (RIN, User ID, AFN, Ahnentafel, > more?). > > Do people use more than one (i.e. RIN and AFN)? > > I like the way Ahnentafel doubles each generation (me #1, dad #2, mom #3 > (2+1), grampa #4, grandma #5 (4+1)), but I think to use this system in > Legacy, I would have to (at the very beginning) set up generations (and > generations) of "unknown" ancestors to ensure when I finally learned > about that particular ancestor that they had the right Ahnentafel number. > > When I first started out I was sloppy and didn't really see this project > for what it was. So I'm creating a new file just focusing on my > ancestors. Once I get them cleaned up, I'll start spreading out > sideways. So, if Ahnentafel is the way to go, I could make the effort > now to ensure that all my ancestors were numbered appropriately. > > Hope my rambling make sense. Thanks for your help! Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp 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
