Ancestors of: Carol Newman Lee Simpson Robert Kemp Descendants of: Robert P Newman Geraldine Gillespie Harry Kuntzman Family Login Search Notes (Also see Find above)

Family Genealogy (the "Family Tree")

A "family tree" represents the relationship of parents to child branching back in time from an individual to direct ancestors, but also forward from each ancestor through their children to their children's children. Along the way marriages associate people from other families.

A genealogy is deduced from documented evidence. Evidence includes family records, photographs, historical publications, official public records, US Federal Censuses, and much more. Such sources not only help establish the fact of the family relationships, but give hints as to the life and times of each person. Caution and circumspection are necessary in evaluating evidence, see Evidence Notes below. 

Search Notes

You can begin by going directly to the ancestor or descendant trees above, or search for a name using "Find/Search People" in the top menu or rummage in the other Find categories . If you are not logged in as a family member, first names of living individuals are given as initials only, details are not displayed, and searches will find no living names. Women are listed by their maiden name. To search for them by married name, search only on the first name, or specify her spouse's surname and gender.

The three main displays are Individual, Ancestors, and Descendants. You can print any page by clicking on the Print icon at the top of each page. The Ancestor and Descendant pages can be shown in various formats - see the choices in the blue menu bar below the tabs. The Ahnentafel and Register formats are the most detailed.

Evidence:

• Cemetery Records and Headstone Pictures 
• Documentation (Official Documents, Census Records, Letters, Notes, Pictures, etc.)
• Picture Master Files  
• Relationship Table 
• Research in Progress 

Evidence Notes:

• The only reality of genealogy is the relationship father + mother => child. There can be only one real family tree. All the relationships we work on are deductions from evidence, for example a document says John is the son of Jacob. The documents can be missing, incomplete, or erroneous, so the tree we document is an educated guess and may change with time as research continues. Formal evaluation is called the Genealogical Proof Standard and has not yet been done for this site, although some notes discuss the logic used and the problems found.
• Evidence supporting a "fact" about an individual is cited with footnote references at the bottom of that individual's page. The preferred choice, alternates, and possibly conflicting information, are also shown. A "fact" is only as good as its sources. The source may conflict on a specific fact due to faulty memories, errors, or inclusion of a fact not actually attributable to that person, etc.
• Some persons included are speculative or otherwise uncertain. Usually it is their relation to the family that is uncertain, not their existence or details. These persons are necessary to help research possibilities. Similarly, "facts" with no source citations are speculative or experimental.
• Surnames such as "FamilyPerryWife" are placeholders where a family name is not know.
• Relations other than marriage, such as father or sibling, are not yet adequately linked to source citations.
• The US Federal Census data is only available from  1790-1930 because it is kept private for 72 years.
• When other family trees are the source, they may be based on good evidence but should be considered unreliable until documentation is found and analyzed to support the claims.
• To provide a feasible limit, this site is limited to ancestors and descendants from ancestors. Otherwise the tree would be infinite! Relatives by marriage are included insofar as their information is in a cited source, so that their descendants have a starting point.
• Website Genealogy Notes 
• Web Site Notes

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