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

Cheryl, I think what you need first is a direct descendant wall chart showing how an individual is a descendant of two or three children of the starting ancestor. It gets more complicated to "see" how an individual is a descendant of two or more marriages of later descendants of the common ancestor. A direct line box chart (siblings optional) along with data available in a KINSHIP report determines the choice of the genealogy program if relationships are more important than a large collection of descendant names. One genealogy program has an option to count intermarriages in a file. PAF is limited to one relationship of a child to TWO parents and is best used to enter bio relationships only. One of the list participants sent a sample of a PAF file with children of father's marriages all identified as bio children but some of the bio mother's children were identified as adopted when each bio parent had a second spouse. -- Elizabeth in Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "singhals" > 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 ...

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 > >