Hi: This came from Answers.Com ahnentafel Wikipedia ahnentafel An Ahnentafel (or Ahnenreihe) is a list of a person's ancestors in a particular order. It is a construct used in genealogy to display a person's ancestry compactly, without the need for a diagram such as a family tree, which is particularly useful in situations where one may be restricted to using plain text, for example in e-mails or newsgroup articles. It is effectively a traversal of the family tree. After listing the person as #1, you list their father as #2 and their mother as #3, then their grandparents as #4 to #7, and so on back through the generations. In this scheme, any person's father has double that person's number, and a person's mother has double the person's number plus one. Apart from #1, who can be male or female, all even-numbered persons are male, and all odd-numbered persons are female. Demonstration 1.. self 2.. father 3.. mother 4.. father's father 5.. father's mother 6.. mother's father 7.. mother's mother 8.. father's father's father 9.. father's father's mother 10.. father's mother's father 11.. father's mother's mother 12.. mother's father's father 13.. mother's father's mother 14.. mother's mother's father 15.. mother's mother's mother For a real-life example, here is an ahnentafel of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. ----- Original Message ----- From: "diane and wes miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 04/01/2005 10:59 PM Subject: [KEIM] ahnentafel > Can someone please explain this term for me? > > > > ==== KEIM Mailing List ==== > Please consider sharing some of your ancestry with us. If you want to > remain anonymous, send the data to Cindy <[email protected]> or Diana > <[email protected]>. >

Thank you. Never heard of Answers.com before, but will be sure to try it in the future. Diane >From: "Richard Bell, sr." <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [KEIM] ahnentafel >Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:25:15 -0700 > >Hi: This came from Answers.Com >ahnentafel >Wikipedia >ahnentafel > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "diane and wes miller" ><[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: 04/01/2005 10:59 PM >Subject: [KEIM] ahnentafel > > >>Can someone please explain this term for me? >> >> >> >>==== KEIM Mailing List ==== >>Please consider sharing some of your ancestry with us. If you want to >>remain anonymous, send the data to Cindy <[email protected]> or Diana >><[email protected]>. >> > > >==== KEIM Mailing List ==== >Please consider sharing some of your ancestry with us. If you want to >remain anonymous, send the data to Cindy <[email protected]> or Diana ><[email protected]>. >