Numbering system

[tempomental]

Hello,

I'm probably way overthinking this.

I would like to have one giant book of genealogy starting with me. In the past, I've done an ahtenafel starting with my father, and my mother has done a ton of work on her side of the family based on surnames.

I've also started on 8x great-grandparents and worked forward, but I don't want to do 256 separate anthologies, especially at the stage of research where I am right now.

What I'm thinking of doing is a combination of ahtenafel and Modified Register numbering, but I'm having a hard time getting my head around it. For example, I would be 1, my parents would be 2 and 3, and my paternal grandfather would be 4. His children would be 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc...

Surely someone has thought about this before and solved this problem, but for the life of me I can't seem to find anything. What are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
TM