On Sun, 17 May 2009 08:43:19 -0700 (PDT), "Roberta" <gmarob@gmail.com> wrote: > No one in my family is at all interested in carrying on the > research. I'm mainly using the numbering system because I found it > -for me- the simplest to use with my paper files. I like filing by > family group. It keeps immediate family right there and the > numbering helps find earlier ancestors. > > My own feeling, too, is that most people use a gen program these > days, so numbering really doesn't make any sense in that way. > > So, I really don't need a numbering system, but use it because my > brain seems to like it! I use the numbers my genealogy program assigns to each person. That doesn't keep the paper files in family groups, and I don't even try to do that. I give each document in my paper files its own serial number and file them in numerical order, and have a computer index program to find them again. My genealogy program (Legacy) allows me to enter the document number in the source records for each person, so it's easy to find in my numerically ordered files. Ahnentafel and descendant numbering only applies to one report out of many possible ones. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com>