Created by PAFBOOK. How to read this Record Generated Using the Henry Genealogical Numbering System This record was generated using the Modern Modified Henry Numbering System. The original Henry Numbering System was developed by Reginald Buchanan Henry who used it in his "Genealogies of the Families of the Presidents" which he produced in 1935. This sceme of indexing consists of numbering the children in each generation in the order of their birth. The numbering begins with a progenitor of a line who is assigned number 1. The second generation are his children in order of birth who are assigned a second digit in order of birth. His or her oldest child becomes 11, his next child becomes 12, ect. If there are more than nine children, capital letters are used in alphabetic order. The tenth is given letter A, the eleventh becomes B, ect. The 3rd and succeeding generations follow using the same numbering sequence and methodology. To Illustrate: Generation Henry Number (1) The Progenitor or common ancestor. 1 (2) Child number 3 13 (3) Child number 8 138 (4) Child number 10 138-A (5) Child number 1 138-A1 (6) Child number 11 138-A1B (7) Child number 3 138-A1B-3 The index to the report is unique in that is uses the Henry Report Number of each individual to identify it's location within the report. As all Henry Numbers are sequential and progressive, it is simple to find each individual. KEEP IN MIND THAT ONLY DIRECT DECSCENDANTS OF A PROGRNITOR ARE ASSIGNED TRUE HENRY NUMBERS. PAFBOOK identifies the number of spouse's, as well as their parents, using the Henry Number of the progenitors descendant. These are identified by using their husband's or wive's Henry Number and adding a =H (Husband) or =W (Wife) and their appropriate marriage. In this way multiple marriage are recorded. i.e: The spouse of 138-1 would be 138-1=H1 if female or =W1 if male. Using the same example, were there more than one marriage they would be recorded as, 138-1=H1 and 138-1=H2 etc. Parents or spouses are identified using the spouse's number and a F (Father) or M (Mother). i.e: 138-1=H1F. Thus: 138-1 [Fourth Generation] is the 1st child of the 8th child of the 3rd child of the progenitor. 138-1=H1 would be the first husband. 138-1=H1F would be the first husband's father. It will start a new number one for each child from a different marriage. As well as the new number one it will contain symbols for different marriages. The things that I have added to the the system help with the ease of figuring the number of generations for long numbers. It is easier to read "132-345-234" then it is to read "132345234". For this reason after every third generation I have added a "-" to seperate the number and make it easier to read. Thus the fourth generation number would look as follows: "123-4". The second thing that I have added is for multiple marriages. This way by just looking a number you can tell what marriages a person is from. Also for each marriage of an individual I restared at "1" for the first child of that marriage. Thus for the first marriage of individual "12" his first child would be "121". His first child of his second marriage would be "1(2)1". The "1(2)1" would read as the first child of the second marriage of the second child of the ancestor. I have used symbols for up to 20 marriages. More marriages are allowed up to 50 but I have only the twenty symbols. This is to be as compatiable with as many printers as possible. The Symbols are as follows: Marriage Number Symbol 2nd ( ) 3rd [ ] 4th { } 5th < > 6th : : 7th | | 8th ` ' 9th \ / 10th " " 11th ! ! 12th # # 13th % % 14th & & 15th * * 16th ^ ^ 17th ~ ~ 18th $ $ 19th ? ? 20th @ @ Also after the 9th child I have started to use letters so as to use only 1 digit for each generation. Thus the tenth child of the ancestor would be "1A" and the eleventh child would be "1B" and so on. The 36th child for a marriage would thus start small letters if they should ever be needed. Thus the 36th child of the ancestor would be "1a".