Add Ahnentafel column to individuals list

kerrychris · Post by **kerrychris** » 19 Mar 2006 20:44

I was just wondering if it's possible to add the Ahnentafel numbering system as a column in the individuals list (i'd like it inbetween the name and dates of an individual) and then use the Ahnentafel order to create a report so it appears in that particular order. Would that actually work for all relatives working back from myself? Any suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 19 Mar 2006 23:31

Obviously you can easily do a query/report for this, but currently I don't think you could use it on the records window.

I have a named list with all my ancestors and another for husbands ancestors, which I have as columns, but that only sorts the ancestors to the top of the list and does not order them.

kerrychris · Post by **kerrychris** » 20 Mar 2006 00:01

Ok, thanks. I am only just getting used to using queries and wish i could write my own but unfortunately i'm not computer literate enough to do that.
Do you know of another way i could order the names in the individuals list so that all relations are ordered from the root person to the furthest ancestors on all branches, for example, by generation and not alphabetically or by record id? Bear in mind there are over 2700 names in the tree and going through them one by one to add to a named list would be near impossible. It's probably not possible but then at least i'd have some idea. Thanks.
Chris

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 20 Mar 2006 10:13

You can create a named list using a query, alternately simply use the standard ancestors query and use the properties dialogue from there to access the information. You can also use the query to populate a report list.

Alternately add the results of the ancestors query to a named list and add a named list entry to your records column.

In Links, there are how to's for using lists and adding columns to the record windows. If you have not already done so I would watch those through.

kerrychris · Post by **kerrychris** » 20 Mar 2006 21:32

Thanks again, will give it a go.

justone · Post by **justone** » 21 Mar 2006 20:57

@kerrychris:
Could be done using a custom attribute and a small util which reads in a txt report from FH containing only Ahnentafelnumbers and record IDs. Shouldn't be such a trick to do that in VBscript or even VB (I could surely make such a thing the upcoming weekend)

But I have some heavy concirns doing so.
Simly because an Ahnentafelnr is nothing static and thus shouldn't be within an individual record.
Point is that if it's you looking at your ancestors, your father becomes nr. 2 wheras if one of your children would like to have the same view .. it's you who's nr. 2 and that means each individual can't have a unique Ahnentafelnumber.

In the end it'll be a poor hack against something much more clever Simon could implement if the demand is high enough.

So I'd suggest to better wait (or reqeust this functionality) and see if Simon could think about a solution such as calculating Ahnentafelnumbers at runtime by allowing the user to define a startindividual.
This could likely be a once-done-works-all-time definition in the form that the user has to add add a special record containg a reference to an individual record being the starting person, and then let FH work with that special record and auto-populate the involved ancestors. And it's needs this being allowed to be viewed as a column.

Benefit would be, no waste in the GEDCOM within the individual records and only 1 additional special record which also ensures one can't accidently define more but 1 startingperson for calculation.

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