Had enough of browsing through hundreds of records that all blur together after awhile? Well, this is the right page to come to then, as actually charting out family trees is the fun part of genealogy. If this is your first visit here, please read about some things to keep in mind about these charts. I hope you enjoy this site dedicated to our family's heritage.
Descendant Charts
Edward Lawrence Geyer 1859 - 1923
His 'Person Sheet' & 'Web Family Card'
He & his wife of two years immigrated to the U.S. in 1887 from what is now the Alsace area of France but may well have been part of Germany at the time he left. (78 Blood Relatives / 9 pages)
Gregor Manns 1859 - 1923
His 'Person Sheet' & 'Web Family Card'
Immigrated to USA in 1859 from the provence of Westphalia in western Germany (just east of the Netherlands in the Ruhr Valley) The crossing was made by a sailing ship and took 56 days. He was killed in a coal mining accident, crushed by a coal cart being pulled by a donkey. (266 Blood Relatives / 48 pages)
John Marsula
His 'Person Sheet' & 'Web Family Card'
We don't know much about John Marsula except that he was married to Catharina Wattenphul and that his son, Jacob Marsula, came to America and settled in the Pittsburgh area. (142 Blood Relatives / 16 pages)
Relative Charts
Lawrence Edward Geyer, Jr. 1968 -
His 'Person Sheet' & 'Web Family Card'
Well since I've gone to all of the trouble of getting all of this information up onto the web, I get to be the focus of the first of these. This shows all of my blood relatives and includes how they're related to me. Generations are shown with the youngest on the left. Due to the immense size this chart (252k, 2603x5942) some older computers or web browsers may not display it properly or at all. Try increasing your browser's memory if you get any broken links in this chart. (501 Blood Relatives / 45 pages)
Things to know about these charts:
- Be patient for them to load in. The smallest of these charts is over 60k, which will take a few moments to load in if you have a dial-up internet connection. You may have to increase the amount of memory allocated to your web browsing software in order for it to display these pages.
- You will have to scroll left on all of these charts, which is something that you probably don't have to do on many web pages. Also, depending on your monitor's size and resolution setting, you may have to scroll up and down as well in order to see an entire chart.
- People that are in the same generation will be displayed in boxes of the same color. After six generations, the color pattern repeats.
- The charts will appear in a new window so that you may use your browser's back button to go to the family tree database in order to find additional information out about individuals. Or follow the link here to have a third window appear with the Surnames Index.
- They are quite large and not really designed to be printed. I will note how many pages it would take to print them for those interested, but there will be some people's boxes that go across page breaks. The format for this will be, "# of blood relations to the source person on chart/ approx. # of pages to print at 100%". I'm not listing the total number of people on a chart, as the software I'm using automatically counts the number of boxes, not people on a chart and spouses of blood relatives appear in the same box together.
- Only blood relatives and their spouses will be listed for each source person. Therefore not everyone listed in this family tree database will appear on every chart. There really is no effective way for creating an 'everyone' chart as such types of charts quickly become immensely large and unwieldy.
- People with multiple spouses will appear in a different box for each marriage, and each of these boxes will be connected with a red line.
- Parents of people who are direct ancestors (eg. parents & grandparents) in Relative Charts will be displayed in separate boxes connected by an angled red line. This is so that each parent can be displayed within the context of their own family.
- When dates of birth are known, siblings will be listed in order of birth from left to right. When dates of birth are unknown, siblings will be listed in an arbitrary order. Some family's where all of the siblings birth dates are known will still be displayed in an arbitrary manner. If you spot any cases of this, please contact us so we can update the information, though in a few cases siblings were purposefully rearranged in order to display the chart better.
- If there is a chart beginning with a certain source person you would like to have displayed here, feel free to email me. Obviously such charts will be limited to the persons contained within this site's family tree database.
- A first cousin once removed is a term that could describe either the child of a person's first cousin (called a cousin in the descendancy) or the child of their great-aunt (a cousin in the ascendancy). In order to distinguish the two, cousins in the descendancy will include an asterisk (*) to distinguish them from cousins in the ascendancy. The child of a great-aunt is a cousin in the ascendancy -- your 1C1R. In this case, that person's children are actually considered to be in your generation and are considered full cousins - your second cousin in this case. Hopefully the below image will clarify this a bit.
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