Hi Norma, You are confusing numbers. AFN are Ancestral File Numbers - nothing to do with ahnentafel numbers. You may or may not have entered some AFN numbers and may or may not have opted to include them in your report. They are something to do with FamilySearch - and have been superseded by their new FamilySearch Tree ID numbers. If you chose to include them, and you only have them entered for some people, that would explain the variation.
The ahnentafel numbers only apply to direct ancestors and are applied automatically in an Ancestor Book Report, and a Pedigree Chart. They are not in the Ancestor Chart which has a generation number. If in a child list two people have an Arabic number (1, 2, etc) then both are your direct ancestors. All the children in a child list have a lowercase Roman number (i, ii, etc) The ahnentafel number depends on the starting person. You may also find that the report is including the RIN for each person - this is their number in your database that enables the database to function. It has no significance for anybody but you and your database. You may want to have another look at the report and the report options and then clarify what you are asking. Cathy Norma Heaton wrote: > > Hello > > Using Legacy version 7.5.0.286, I created an ancestor report of my > uncle as a gift for my cousin. I found something strange happening in > the ahnentafel/AFN numbers generated by the report. > > Of the 11 children of Johannes B., there is descent in the lines of 3 > of his children. > > Johannes B. (the father) is AHN# # 176. > > His daughter A.B. does not have an AHN# beside her name in the > children’s list, but she appears as #171 in her own record. > > His son G.B. does not have an AHN# beside his name in the children’s > list, but he appears as #176 in his own record. > > His daughter S.B. does appear in the children’s list with the #73. > > Did this occur because 2 of the children’s AFN# are greater than their > father’s? In other words, does it select and only enter an AFN# if it > is lower than that of the parent? If I double either #171 or #176, the > report indicates this is a duplicate of #146 which is correct. The > problem is that under AFN#146, it looks as if there is descent of only > one child, not 3 because # 171 & 176 are not entered beside the names > of the children. Is this a bug in the version of Legacy I am using? > Would the latest version of Legacy correct this? > > Also, is there any way the report could be generated so that each > person is listed as (as example) AFN# 73, dau of J.B. (AFN # 146) & > M.B.B (AFN# 147)? In other words, include the AFN# of the parents in > the record of each child? > > Thank you for any explanation or help > > Norma 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
