Well, now. At least I've figured part of it out. What the report APPEARS to be showing with "only oldest" selected is the birth-place IN whatever generation is chosen as the Oldest (gen 2, 3, 4, whatever). I'm still totally baffled by why my son's India relatives aren't showing, but when I start with my gs those people pop up.
The grammar-hammers really ought deal with this, because at this point, it seems more a comms prob than a logic one. singhals wrote: > Mornin', Paula. Oddly, yours is the only response. > > Please wait ... Testing ... There's still something wrong. > > With "only oldest" and 7 generations selected, I get his > origins as VA, WV, PA, and MD. All true ON MY SIDE. No > mention of the other half of his origins (India). > > At 9 generations and still only oldest, I get USA, England, > and Germany. Again India is missing. > > At 12 gens, all origins are England. At 13 gens it finds no > recognizable places > > Odd. > > Cheryl > > > > Paula Ryburn wrote: >> Cheryl, I don't know if you received responses on this post, >> but you could try to track down the Northern Ireland >> ancestor but runnin successive Origins Reports, with your >> son selected. Set "Origin Scope" to the third choice, >> "only... oldest generation". Then look back (say) 2 >> generations. Preview. Northern Ireland flag showing? No... 3 >> generations, then 4 generations... keep looking back >> generation by generation until Northern Ireland shows up. >> Then take a look at those folks for clues. (use pedigree >> chart from your son back to that generation...? or pedigree >> view) >> >> The report shows just what I suspected for my daughter's >> ancestry, both in the "only... oldest" setting and in the >> "all ancestors" setting (accumulation of generations). --Paula >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* singhals<[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Monday, November 17, 2014 1:41 PM >> *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Origins Report revisited >> >> I didn't want to start a discussion sure to provide heat >> just before I scooted out of town for a month, so I'm >> backtracking here to what Brian quoted in the discussion on >> Ethnicity back in early October. >> >> >> split apart for centuries. Legacy can gather all the >> >> ancestral birth >> >> places in your family file and let you know what >> >> percentage of each >> >> nationality makes up your heritage." >> >> >> >> I'm puzzled by just exactly what that report is gathering. >> >> I ran an Origins report on my son. I was quite surprised to >> learn he has/had an ancestor from Northern Ireland. >> >> So I did a search on Individual> birthplace> contains >> "Ireland" and got two hits. Both the hits for an Irish >> birthplace are in fact part of the family -- but are NOT one >> of his ancestors. One person is the 5ggf of my uncle's >> ex-son-in-law. The other is the brother of an ancestor of >> my GM's brother's wife. More, neither of them specify >> "Northern" Ireland, all I have is "Ireland". Even if both >> of them were born before Northern Ireland officially split >> off Ireland ... neither of them is in any way, shape, or >> form an ancestor of my son's. >> >> Just sayin' ... >> >> Cheryl 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://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
