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║ Information About AHNENTAF - From File AHNENTAF.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 93.2 - April 1993 ║
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Creates ahnentafel charts with place/date information for birth,
death and marriage which differ in style from PAF's version.
Version: 1.3
Author: Ann Turner
Address: 418 Gilbert, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Release Date: February 1990
BBS File Name: AHNENTAF.ZIP
Software Type: Shareware
Fee: $5.00 suggested, $7.50 to order from author.
Read/Write: Read only
AHNENTAF is a program to make an ahnentafel from a PAF data base.
Its style is only slightly different, but in the opinion of the
author, more usable than PAF's ahnentafel. For example, AHNENTAF
puts the surname first, making it easier to scan for names.
AHNENTAF will also fill in the information on duplicated lines,
while PAF says "same as ahnentafel number nnnn". The output is
similar to ahentafels published in genealogical magazines.
The word "ahnentafel" comes from the German, "ahnen" meaning
ancestors and "tafel" meaning table. As used today, it refers to
a numbering system for the ancestors of a person. The starting
person is given the number 1. The father is 2, and the mother is
3. Number 2's father is 4 and his mother is 5. Number 3's father
is 6 and her mother is 7. Double any person's number to get
his/her father's number. Double any person's number and add one
to get his/her mother's number. After the first generation, the
men have even numbers, and the women have odd numbers.
The information contained in an ahnentafel can be as short as a
name or as long as a paragraph. Because an ahnentafel is a list,
rather than a chart, it can be very compact. Many pages of four
generation pedigrees can be printed on just a few pages in the
ahnentafel format.
The information provided in this version includes birth date and
place, death date and place, and marriage date and place. If
birth and death data are not available, baptism and burial data
are substituted if possible. The layout is designed for
ahnentafel numbers up to seven digits long. This allows for only
23 generations as opposed to PAF's 32 generations.