Evidence mark
Three hundred years, and the parts worth telling
A tree of eleven thousand names is a filing system. These are the things in it a cousin would actually want to hear — each one traced to the book, record or church programme it came from, so it can be repeated without embarrassment.
The living generation
The reunion is for these people. Everyone else in this tree is how they are related to each other. This view exists to get them attached, counted and invited.
Not attached to anyone
Named in an obituary as a survivor, but no parent link — so they have no line of descent and belong to no branch. Each one is a name their own family could place in a minute.
Where they are
Last known residence, as printed in the obituary that named them. Click a place to filter the register to that state.
What we know, how we know it, and what is still open
The Stories page is what the family reads. This is the working out behind it — the findings, the arguments, the places two published books flatly contradict each other, and the single record that would settle each remaining question. Nothing here is asserted without a source, and where this project has picked a side it says why.
Branches that look unworked
Not a list of people who had few children — a list of people whose records are thin next to their own brothers and sisters. Each of these married, lived a full life, and has at most one child in the tree while their siblings average several. That pattern is what a branch nobody researched looks like, and it is how the Philip Reger gap was found.