![]() ![]() Children who will later be treated in full – usually those with offspring – are also given identification numbers. Each child is preceded by a lower-case roman numeral. You then list children, in birth order, giving vital statistics. She married at Nanty Glo, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 4 February 1901, John Henry Isaacson, who was born Juho Heikki Iisakkinpoika Panttila at Teuva 26 April 1878 and died at Johnstown, Cambria County, 1 March 1919. Sandra Eliina Matalamäki was born at Teuva, Finland, 19 August 1876 and died at Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, 26 December 1960.Taking my immigrant grandmother as an example, I would write as follows: You give that person’s birth and death information and then marriage information. Often, in American family histories, person number 1 is the immigrant to America, but it doesn’t have to be. ![]() With Register style, you begin with an ancestor and call that person number 1. In fact, it was NEHGS that came up with the system in 1870 as a way of presenting information in our quarterly journal, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register – which is why it’s known as Register style. It is such an elegant and efficient way of presenting genealogical information that I wish I had invented it. Chris Child’s recent post made me realize just how much I love it. I simply love Register style as a way of presenting descendants of a particular ancestor. Register style would help clarify family groups among descendants of my grandmother (seated, center).
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