At our August meeting, we watched a webinar on using newspapers. After the video, we talked about the links we use the most today. I also looked up the current links for some of the resources mentioned in the video: Continue reading Power-Up SIG Notes: Newspapers →

Bev presented an introduction to editing digital photographs.  Her notes are here.

Ellen presented the second half of her work on standardizing our data entry in genealogical software programs by discussing dates and places.  Her notes are here: Continue reading Power-Up SIG Notes: Standardizing Dates and Places for Data Entry →

• • Why?
    • Primarily – Written family histories
    • For some – filing systems
  • Systems
    • Ahnentafel (ON en TAH full) (ancestor table)
      • For numbering ancestors in a pedigree chart
      • Base person is 1. Father is 2. Mother is 3.
      • Any person’s (n) father is n x 2 and mother is n x 2 + 1
      • No numbers for anyone else
      • If you want to sound extra geeky, call it the Sosa-Stradonitz System
    • Dollarhide (William Dollarhide)
      • Adds to Ahnentafel for other descendants
      • Base person’s grandfather is 4.0. His siblings are 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
      • Has additional characters for step, half, second marriage, etc
    • Register (New England Historic and Genealogical Society Register)
      • For numbering descendants
      • Only people with descendants get a number
    • NGSQ or Modified Register (National Genealogical Society Quarterly)
      • Everyone gets a number
    • Henry (Reginald Henry)
      • Base person is 1.
      • Children get parent’s number plus an extra digit at end (11, 12, 13, 111, 112, 113…)
      • Problems with more than 9 kids!  (some use X, A, B, C, some use (10))
    • D’Aboville (Jaques d’Aboville)
      • Used a lot in France
      • Like Henry, but uses periods between generations (1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.2…)
    • Meurgey de Tupigny (Jacues Muergey de Tupigny)
      • Generations get Roman numeral, individuals get numbers
      • I, II-1, II-2, III-1, III-3
    • De Villiers/Pama
      • Like MdT but uses letters instead of Roman numerals
      • A, B-1, B-2, B-1.C-1, B-1.C-2, B-2.C-3
      • Used in South Africa

• Resources)
  • Richard Pence: http://www.saintclair.org/numbers/
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_numbering_systems
  • Cyndi’s List: http://www.cyndislist.com/numbering/general/
  • Curran, Joan F., Madilyn Coen Crane, and John H. Wray. Numbering Your Genealogy : Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin, rev. ed. (Arlington, Va.: National Genealogical Society, 2008).