You have to be really smart, Jeaneth. I read and read that page about the Knot system and don't get it.
Marie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeaneth L. Christensen Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renumbering MRINS--Use Dollarhide's system All these systems are surely good, but I still think that I prefer the Knot System, which is described detailed on this website: http://www.knotsystem.dk/ Jeaneth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Ellen Eggett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 3:18 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Renumbering MRINS--Use Dollarhide's system > Look for his sample page in "An Awful Ahnentafel" article. He shows examples > of just about every kind of relationship. > > First generation numbering: If I am 1.0, then my father is 2.0, my mother > 3.0; my grandfather is double my father 4.0, my grandmother is one more 5.0; > my great grandfather is double my grandfather 8.0, my grandmother 9.0. I am > third in my family. My oldest sibling's number is half of my father's > number, so it is "1" like mine. Because she is the first child, she becomes > 1.1, my second sibling 1.2. Normally my number would be 1.3 but I keep 1.0 > to show I am a direct line descendant. The next child in my father's family > is 1.4. > > Descendent numbering: Another number is added to the end of my number or > those of my siblings. My first child is 1.01. His first child is 1.011. My > grandchild's first child becomes 1.0111; the second child is 1.0112. My > oldest sister's first child is 1.11 and so forth. > > Second generation numbering: My father is the seventh of twelve children in > his father's family. He would be 2.7 but because he is direct line, the > number 7 is skipped but again the .0 holds his place in the chronology. The > next sibling becomes 2.8. Letters of the alphabet are used after the 9th > child. The tenth child is 2.A; eleventh 2.B; twelfth child 2.C. Without the > letters the tenth child would be 2.10 which makes him look like he's part of > the next, generation. > > Collateral line numbering: My aunt is the fifth child in my father's family > 2.5. Her first child is 2.51; second child is 2.52; and third child is 2.53 > and so forth. Children for her first child become 2.511, 2.512, 2.513. > Because there are three digits after the point I know the person is a child > of a child of my aunt who is my father's fifth sibling. If I were to list > all of her descendants, it could look like 2.5631. > > My grandfather's first sibling is 4.1. Her children are 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, > 4.14... Her grandchildren from the first child are 4.111, 4.112, 4.113... > > My great grandfather's first sibling is 8.1. Her children are 8.11, 8.12, > 8.13... > > My great great grandfather's first sibling is 16.1. Her children are 16.11, > 16.12, 16.13... > > Long lines: Each generation number doubles. My 7th great grandfather's > number is 512.0. His first child is 256.1. This numbering system can handle > many more generations and their collateral lines, and I can tell how each > person connects to me without opening their file. > > This is really just a nutshell's worth. > > Sue > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jennifer > Crockett > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Renumbering MRINS--Use Dollarhide's system > > Hi Sue > > I must confess my eyes glazed over when I saw all those ones and zeros > in Dollarhide's binary system. > > Also, he is talking about pedigree ancestors. What about second and > third cousins, great aunts etc? I need a system of numbering to include > them too. > Carol asked a question below about intermarriages. I would also be > interested to know if the binary system would cope with that. > > Jennifer > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sue > Ellen Eggett > Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 4:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Renumbering MRINS--Use Dollarhide's system > > Because numbering systems are mostly for our own use anyway, I've made a > few > minor changes from William Dollarhide's numbering system to suit my > special > needs. In some instances I have given a person two numbers separated by > a > slash. I then immediately know by the two numbers that the person is > connected into my tree more than once. > > When I look at the name list in Legacy with the option of the unique ID > #'s > showing rather than the RIN I can readily identify a direct line son, > father, and grandfather who have the very same name. The father's number > is > always double the son's number. Add one number to the father's number to > create the mother's number. (Father=2; mother=3) This way the father is > always an even number and the mother is always an odd number. I know > that > Legacy can bold direct line ancestors in the name list, but in addition, > I > know that anyone with a point zero (.0) is obviously a direct ancestor. > When > I am doing merges within my own records, I can readily tell people apart > because they have this "code" number. When a child is named the same as > an > earlier sibling who died, the number lets me know that they are two > individuals. If I am merging someone else's data with mine, I can always > be > certain of which record is my original because of his unique number. > > For those who have not read how the numbering system works, this may > seem > confusing. I suggest that anyone who is unhappy with the random RIN and > MRIN > numbers take time to read Dollarhide's articles. He gives an excellent > sample page that I kept by my computer for easy reference while learning > and > doing it. I changed over to this way of numbering a little bit at a > time. My > husband looked at what I did and said, "Hey, I think I can write a > program > that will do that automatically." :( > > Sue > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carol > Wait > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renumbering MRINS--Use Dollarhide's system > > Sue, > How would this work with a lot of inter marriages? 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