for cousins
Which door is yours?
This wing is built standing where I stand — but if we are cousins, half of it, or a quarter of it, is not my family being shown to you; it is your family. Find the ancestor couple we share and step in through that door: it lights up your shared wedges of the fan, counts the ancestors we have in common, and hands you your rooms.
We share grandparents
My aunts and uncles, and my first cousins — half of this wing is your direct ancestry.
We share great-grandparents
My second cousins — a quarter of the wing is yours.
Thomas Lewis Latané Temple, Jr. & Hal Christine Crouch
1887–1947 · 1891–1980
108 shared ancestors · your rooms: Temple · Crouch
John Barnitz Bond, Jr. & Alice Plunkett
1868–1922 · 1893–1980
62 shared ancestors · your rooms: Bond · Plunkett
James Thomas Catchings & Ada Mae Johnson
1882–1944 · 1892–1976
36 shared ancestors · your rooms: Catchings · Johnson
Hugh Othal West, Sr. & Dolores Grace Carpenter
1903–1945 · 1911–1960
81 shared ancestors · your rooms: West · Carpenter
We share great-great-grandparents
My third cousins — one room of the eight is yours, and its river now ends in a delta that draws every child of the couple we share.
We share older ground
Third cousins on the other lines, fourth cousins and beyond — then the couple we share stands deeper inside a single family, and that family's room is your door. Every room's river ends in a delta at the great-great-grandparent couple, every room states plainly what is proven at its upper reaches, and every person page shows children, so you can walk from our shared couple back down toward yourself.
The fine print, honestly
Once removed? Same doors — every person page carries an "I am:" picker that shifts the labels to your generation. Married into the family, or not sure where you fit? Start at the landing and wander. And living family appear nowhere on this site, including you and me — the doors are named for the deceased couples we descend from, which is why they can be public at all.