Hi all, Thanks for all the responses to this thread and sorry for any ambiguity. It seems as though we have two trains of thought going here and thus different solutions. Since there are apparently two interpretations of the question i.e.: (longest living person) or longest ago ancestor in the database. I think we are showing our genealogical bias to be more interested in the latter. In my opinion: a) the goal of genealogists is to find any information about an individual as far back in time as possible To this group, the age of a particular individual is not as important as finding the next "brick wall" to be removed. b) to a child of 7 and older non-genealogically inclined persons, the age of the oldest (how long did they live) person would be more relevant than how many generations back a student of genealogy could find. In the latter group, the ages of various individual's lifespan is a better measure of mortality/immortality than how long ago the person lived. After all most people in this group can't name more than a couple of relatives living more than 4-5 generations back. As such, there is little interest or relevance as to whether or not a person lived in the 6th generation or the 60th. Just my thoughts. I am getting back to his father for further clarification and will let the list know. Meanwhile, I find the discussion stimulating and have a greater appreciation of the listers and their speed of offering potential solutions to my question through the use of TMG. Roger Troutman Mansfield OH . On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Pat Reece <[email protected]> wrote: > I must be thinking too basicly. I think that an Ahnentafel Chart would > show the child the most distant past direct-line relatives. Let him look > at the births of the last generations on the chart to learn how long ago > they lived. > > > Pat Reece > > ________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > _______________________________________________ > You are receiving this email because you have registered with RootsWeb > Mailing Lists. Manage your email preferences at: https://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/postorius/accounts/subscriptions/ > > To unsubscribe send an email to mailto:[email protected]? > subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe > > View the archives for this list at: https://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/ > > Your privacy is important to us. View our Privacy Statement at > https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement for more information. > Use of RootsWeb is subject to our Terms and Conditions > https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/termsandconditions > > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb > community >