Tim Forsythe
Advanced Tools For Genealogists
A-List: The GEDCOM Ancestors List
Who's on your A-List?
A-List: The GEDCOM Ancestors List is a new free web service that will build a complete Ancestors List for your configured descendant (root). A-List differs from traditional lists in several areas. Immigrant ancestors are italicized and ancestors without parents are displayed in bold so that they are easily located, allowing you to quickly identify those ancestors needing further research. A-List also displays the migration path for each ancestor making it easy to spot patterns and to notice discrepancies if and when they are present.
If you have comments, questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to chime in using the form provided below, and pleeeeease, for the love of Grandpa Jones, take a moment and give A-List an honest >> review <<.
Making the A-List, finally ...
Tim Forsythe
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Tim Forsythe20 Feb 2013Susan, the Root Person Id is the record number of the person you want to be the root of your ancestors list. The application you use to export your GEDCOM file probably exposes this record number to you within the application. Generally it is in the format of I1, I01, I101, P1001, etc.
If you cannot find it, then you can open your GEDCOM file with a text editor and search for the person manually by their name, birth date, etc. Once you find them, look for the start of their GEDCOM record, which will look something like:
0 INDI @I1@
The string found between the at signs is the person's record number. In this case, I1.
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Susan Alexander20 Feb 2013How does one set the Root Person ID? I saw a message about it talking about record numbers. I need to know how to do this before I can submit my tree.
Thanks.
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Tim Forsythe20 Feb 2013
Jim, :) It looks like you didn't set the Root Person ID correctly. All the individuals in your file fall between the record numbers I1000 and I1060. However, you entered record numbers, I100071, I100231, I00741, I1, and 10007. None of these were found in the file you uploaded. Perhaps you thought you had uploaded a more complete file.
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j. poole20 Feb 2013A truly mysterious tool... No Ancestors were detected.
It worked as described, but doesn't seem to support bom encoded unicode text, a natural encoding for someone with foreign ancestors.