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From: (SGMFAQ)
Subject: Re: Generation counting
Date: 21 Mar 2004 16:42:33 GMT
References: <nathanieltaylor-12568B.10582421032004@news04.east.earthlink.net>


>From: Nathaniel Taylor
>Date: 3/21/2004 10:58 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <>

(snip)

>It may help to visualize an AT as a fan-chart, a la Turton. Posit an
>infinite fan. Wherever you have an anomalously long or short generation
>somewhere in it, or an omission or interpolation, then everything
>'behind' that point in the ancestry, that is, in a pie-slice-shaped
>sector extending outward from it in the fan chart, will be temporally
>skewed in relation to adjacent pie-slices. Duplications with persons
>ouside that slice will not be in the same generation. This is as likely
>to be due to a real temporal anomaly (one or two long or short
>generations in close succession) as it is to an error. To trace the
>potential flaw or anomaly, follow your temporally skewed sector forward
>in time (toward the center of the fan) until it meets up with a more
>normative generational chronology. If you have reasonably complete
>dates for people in the AT, you will find the anomaly quickly enough.

For an extreme temporal anomaly, see:

http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en&m=A&i=82764&v=8&t=H

Note that 48 = 4. It's not an error, Giovanna (number 3) really did marry her
great-grandfather's (much) younger half-brother.

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