Richard A. Pence fed this fish to the penguins: > The short answer is that an ahnentafel (from the German, > ahnen=ancestor and tafel=table - an ancestor table) is a list of > ancestors numbered beginning with the subject (your or a child) as > No. 1. The parents are 2 and 3, the grandparents are 4, 5, 6 and 7, > and so on. This is the same as the numbers used on most ancestor > charts. Or, what may help in clarifying (since you didn't identify which number went with which...) For any individual #x, the father is 2x, the mother is 2x+1 (grandparents would be: paternal grandfather is 2(2x), paternal grandmother is 2(2x)+1, maternal grandfather is 2(2x+1), maternal grandmother is 2(2x+1)+1...) -- > ============================================================== < > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com | Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG < > wulfraed@dm.net | Bestiaria Support Staff < > ============================================================== < > Bestiaria Home Page: http://www.beastie.dm.net/ < > Home Page: http://www.dm.net/~wulfraed/ <