Getting row numbers

[tj <999alfred comcast net>]

I am having a terrible time trying to get the selected row number from a tree view, and it seems so easy using gtk_tree_selection_get_selected_rows();

Snippet of code:

   const gchar* txt;
   GtkTreeSelection  *selection;
   GtkTreeModel     *model;
   GtkTreeIter       iter;
   GtkTreeView* list = GTK_TREE_VIEW(lookup_widget(myWidget,
							"theList"));
   
   selection = gtk_tree_view_get_selection(GTK_TREE_VIEW(list));
   if (gtk_tree_selection_get_selected(selection, &model, &iter)){
     gchar *name;
     
     gtk_tree_model_get (model, &iter, 1, &name, -1);
     
     g_print ("selected row is: %s\n", name);
     
     g_free(name);
   }
   else{
     g_print ("no row selected.\n");
   }
   g_print("Number of selected rows = %d\n",
	    gtk_tree_selection_count_selected_rows(selection))
;
   GList *rows = gtk_tree_selection_get_selected_rows(selection,
						       &model);
   GList *first = g_list_first (rows); 
   g_print("Selected row is %d\n", (gint *)first->data);

Select row one anbd this is the output of the above:
selected row is:  This is row 1
Number of selected rows = 1
Selected row is 947368

I have tries everything I can think of, but I cannot get the row number.

I am a newbie to gtk.

tj