Thanks for trying, Alan, but I _know_ how many there are: 14,000+ What I want to know is, how many of them descend from two of the sons (or from one son twice)? I played with numbers, and Child #1 has 10,304 descendants; Child #2 dsp under age 5; Child #3 has 212 descendants; Child #4 dsp "young"; Child #5 had 693 descendants; child #6 -m- twice, no known children; Child #7 has 3610 descendants; and Child #8 has 1495 descendants. Add those numbers together, subtract from 14,xxx and I get (-2147), which suggests that *at least* 2000 descendants come through more than one son. That's a lot of folks to try to track manually. [And I just noticed the wierd dsp pattern...] Cheryl Alan Whitcomb wrote: > In PAF it´s easy to find out how many ancestors or descendants a > person has. I export a gedcom of my "selected" data. I can then > choose all the ancestors or decendants of a specific person in the > relationship filter. > > I don´t have to even actually export the file, just look at the number > of people filtered. > > Hope this helps > > > > On 4/27/05, singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote: > >>Is there a report in PAF2.0 thru 5.1.7 that will show me how many times >>a certain person descends from the common progenitor? Or, from the >>other end, how many descendants of X have more than one line of descent? >> >>We're working on a report for the Family Reunion in June, and short of >>sitting here COUNTING them each by each, I don't see a way to get it. >>I'm working with more than 14,000 descendants of one couple, I *KNOW* a >>fair number of them are double- or triple- descends but be darn if I can >>figure a way to ID 'em... >> >>I could do something magic with numbers to get a head count of the >>multi-descends, but I still wouldn't know who or how often ... >> >>Cheryl >> >>==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >>PAF-5-USERS Mailing List >>http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uindex.php >> >> > > >

Cheryl, How would this work: 1. Make a GEDCOM file of all the descendants of Child #1 and import it into a new PAF database. Write down the highest RIN. 2. Make a GEDCOM file of all the descendants of Child #3 and import it into the new database. Write down the RIN range for these additions. 3. In match merge, select the option to match on "Unique record serial numbers." Do not select "Merge automatically . . ., so you can see who the matches are. Don't do any merging. Repeat, adding one child's descendants at a time to the database, and writing down each set's RIN range. You will be able to tell which Child's descendants are matching, by the range of RINs the two matching descendants are in. And you should be able to see that some descendants match more that one RIN range, so descend from more than one child of the common. ancestor. I haven't done this, but it seems it should work. BTW, what is "dsp"? Joan Lowrey At 04:48 PM 4/28/05 -0400, singhals wrote: >Thanks for trying, Alan, but I _know_ how many there are: 14,000+ >What I want to know is, how many of them descend from two of the sons (or >from one son twice)? > >I played with numbers, and Child #1 has 10,304 descendants; Child #2 dsp >under age 5; Child #3 has 212 descendants; Child #4 dsp "young"; Child #5 >had 693 descendants; child #6 -m- twice, no known children; Child #7 has >3610 descendants; and Child #8 has 1495 descendants. Add those numbers >together, subtract from 14,xxx and I get (-2147), which suggests that *at >least* 2000 descendants come through more than one son. That's a lot of >folks to try to track manually. > >[And I just noticed the wierd dsp pattern...] > >Cheryl