Fear-576 - Research Section - help unraveling genealogy reference book

Question

Greetings

Have encountered a puzzling published genealogy, listing related individuals in a numbering system I've yet to decipher.

Have attached a link on the profile page leading to this publication in the RESEARCH section at Fear-576. The link ought to open on the genealogy page displaying Fear-576 (Rosanna Fear as "163U") and husband Cornick-253 (Thomas Cornick).

This genealogy numbering system has me befuddled... cannot decipher by numbers who is parent to who? And because of that, not even sure if those listed adjacent are siblings (or not?).

The best outcome would be identitying 163U's parents or direct siblings.

But any comment with insight to unraveling this puzzle is welcome.

Cheers

Answer 1

This book has the most bizarre numbering system, there are actually at least three, I have ever seen.

In the first section, descendants of the planter, each generation is prefixed by a capital letter.

The section on South Carolina families are indexed with a different letter prefix.

Then there is a section on “unknowns.” There are a lot of these. Each starting person has a U appended to the number of the starting person for that unknown family. That person’s known descendants are numbered in an outline form. The parents of the “U persons” are unknown, thus the connection with the planter, if any, is unknown.