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cp: I have about 4 books on genealogy numbering in my library, including one by Richard Pence which Mark Forkham refers to. Like Mark, I'm not really enamored by any of the traditional numbering systems, especially when you are combining going up the tree and going down. Mark's is a good attempt, Thanks ...

Thanks for the ideas, Rob. I was thinking about using lower case for descendants and upper case for ancestors as you suggest. Instead of "?", I was thinking of Z and z. And that would be good for an extension of this notation. But my specific purpose for this notation is to identify the DNA relationship. For ...

Thank you for this Justin. Do you know if the system is documented and formalized anywhere, or is it an informal system you all use?. It is a bit different in goal because I'm aiming at DNA relationship mapping for the purpose of stating just blood relationships and the expected percentage of DNA shared, so ...

Actually, the bottom of: http://gcbias.org/2013/12/02/how-many-genomic-blocks-do-you-share-with-a-cousin/ gets into the sort of thing I would look for, and it describes the Poisson distribution of shared blocks in a genomic region. My stats background would allow me to do the calculations necessary. But ...

Rob: I was looking into possibly giving ranges of percentages. I did look for, but was unable to find any statistics about the random nature of how DNA combines. If I had some theoretical study that estimated the combinatorial probabilities, then I might be willing to include ranges using that. But I don't ...

Tony: Getting me to think again, aren't you. The purpose of this notation is to precisely define a known relationship between two people, so I wasn't thinking of determining the relationship from the DNA. However, the wonderful byproduct is that this notation could now make that possible. With the ...

I really like your ideas, Rob. I was originally thinking of maybe using a different letter, or a different color, or maybe bold text. But parenthesis is better because it can be transferred as raw text and has the advantage of being able to include both common ancestors if desired as in: XYX(XY)XY. I've now ...

Thanks for that, Geoffn. I am working very hard on Version 1.1.1, which I will release as soon as possible (weeks, not months). The feedback I've been getting from everybody has been excellent and I'm very excited about what I've changed already and I'm sure everyone will be very happy the improvements. I ...

I'm now playing around with better representations. The solution to putting the date first might be to also have the event and the person on the same line, e.g.: Age 30, married 2y (wife first name, age 28), Wed 5 June 1940 in France. Birth of Son 1: (Name) (ID) or possibly (which do you like better, ...

There already is an option to toggle this: the heart button on the toolbar (or from the menu select View -> Life Events). But that doesn't alleviate the problem that it's still too complicated. Basically I tried to do way too much (merge all events into a single timeline) which took way too long and made ...