>On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:49:42 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net>
>wrote:
>
>>It's up to you.
>>
>>The system was used by Christopher de Villiers in his published genealogies,
>>and if a female married, then her line would be continued under her husband's
>>surname in the book to avoid duplication and extra expense, but there's no
>>need for you to follow that if you're doing it for the purpose of showing all
>>someone's descendants.
>
>I'm writing a software routine to number the descendants of a
>progenitor. Someone told me I should stop once I hit a female. But no
>definition of the numbering system I could find mentions that except...
>
> http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/workdoc.htm#South%20African%20Numbering%20Syste ms
>
>Near the bottom it says...
>
>>If female descendants of a person are included in a genealogical register or descendants chart, it would be called a register of descendants. The same numbering system as discussed above could be used, but with the following modifications:
>>
>>The persons' surname is added in capital letters, e.g. Abel Erasmus COETZEE.
>>
>>As a person normally receives his genealogical number from his father, a number received from his mother must be written in square brackets, for example:
>>
>> * a1b3c3 Sarah Aletta COETZEE x Jan DE BEER
>> * [a1b3c3d1] Wilhelmina Maria DE BEER
>>
>>OR
>>
>> * [a1][b3][c3][d1]

>I would be interested in learning what Pama's "refinements" to the
>numbering system were. I did a brief search on the internet last night
>and could not locate anything.