Thank you both Kathy & Mike for your responses.
The numbers I referred to in my query were ahnentafel numbers & generated by the report, not Ancestral File numbers, so my mistake in calling them AFN#. I see I also erred in saying that the father’s number was #176, that was wrong. He was #146. To answer your question, Mike, I created an ancestor report with my uncle as the first person so he was # 1, his father #2 and mother #3. The report did generate the correct ahnentafel numbers except for the example I gave. I purposely did not include RIN# in the report since it bears no relation to relationships. My question is still: why did the ahnentafel # for 2 of the children not appear in the listing of children under the father? Was it because their numbers were higher that their father’s number? I’ve copied & pasted from the pdf report the father’s report as well as the 2 children whose ahnentafel numbers do not appear in the children’s list under the entry for their father & also the 3rd child whose entry does include her ahnentafel #. Then, I’ve also included the separate reports of the 2 children whose ahnentafel # do not appear in the children’s list. My system is for all ancestors to have both forename & surname in caps. Then siblings have only their surname in caps and spouses of siblings (unless also related) have their names entered in the usual manner. You can see that there is no ahnentafel # before either Angnientjen Bogert or her brother Guilliam Bogert but the ahnentafel# 73 appears before their sister Sarah Bogert 146. JOHANNES BOGERT,417,637,638,639,640 son of JAN CORNELISSE BOGERT and ANGENIETJE STRYCKER, was born about 1675 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey and died on an unknown date. Another name for JOHANNES was JAN CORNELISE BONGAERT. JOHANNES married MARIA BERTHOLF417,619,620,621,637,641,642 on 25 Mar 1699 in Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. Children from this marriage were: i. ANGNIETJEN BOGERT643,644,645,646,647 was born on 1 Sep 1700 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, was baptized on 15 Sep 1700 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, and died on an unknown date. ANGNIETJEN married JAN DURIE,399,643,644,648,649 son of JEAN PIERRE DURIE and JEANNE [--?--], on 30 Aug 1718 in Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. ii. GUILLIAM BOGERT650,651,652,653 was born before 28 Mar 1703 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, was baptized on 28 Mar 1703 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, and died on an unknown date. GUILLIAM married MARITIE BANTA,641,654,655,656,657,658 daughter of JACOB HENDRICKSE BANTA and JANNETJE CORNELIS VAN HOORN, on 28 Mar 1725 in Schraalenburg (Bergenfield), Bergen, New Jersey. 73 viii. SARAH BOGERT.365,366,367,370,371,372 SARAH married DAVID S. TERHUNE,365,366,367,368,369 son of STEVEN ALBERTSE TERHUNE and LYDIA DEMAREST, on 17 Oct 1735 in Hackensack Dutch Reformed Church, Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. 171. ANGNIETJEN BOGERT,643,644,645,646,647 daughter of JOHANNES BOGERT and MARIA BERTHOLF, was born on 1 Sep 1700 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, was baptized on 15 Sep 1700 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, and died on an unknown date. 176. GUILLIAM BOGERT,650,651,652,653 son of JOHANNES BOGERT and MARIA BERTHOLF, was born before 28 Mar 1703 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, was baptized on 28 Mar 1703 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey, and died on an unknown date. Hope you can solve this mystery. As far as I know these were the only problems in the report, but it was over 400 pages, so this may have occurred elsewhere as well. Norma From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] ahnentafel numbers on ancestor report 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 recor d 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). 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