This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YaW.2ACIB/437.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: If you mean Steve's reports, it looks like the number in the middle of the name is a generation number. I didn't see them in my Fischer reports I have posted. Numbers are used to either indentify a person or a generation. The + in front of a number means more generations for that person. No + means no children known. Does that help? Jane