take it with you
The tree, as a file
Everything this wing is built from — the published tree itself — is downloadable as a single GEDCOM file, the standard format genealogy programs have shared for decades. No account, no subscription, no wall.
The download
⤓ temple-catchings-family-tree-2026-09-13.zip
A ZIP archive holding temple-catchings-family-tree.ged — the published tree
as of 13 September 2026: 2,364 people (2,340 of them named, plus
24 anonymous placeholders that keep families connected), with 409 sources and the
citations behind them. It opens in any genealogy program.
The filename carries its date on purpose: this is a snapshot of a moving research project, and a dated file shows its own age. Links to older snapshots redirect to the newest one, and what's new records what changed between them.
What is deliberately not in it
No living people. Living family members are removed before publication — most deleted outright, a few reduced to the anonymous connecting placeholders counted above. No Social Security numbers — the ones that arrive inside archival citations are redacted. No photographs or attached media.
The file is never edited by hand. It is rebuilt from the master database by a script, and a separate auditing program re-checks every build — re-deriving the list of living people independently — before anything is uploaded.
One honest caveat
A GEDCOM file carries conclusions, not arguments. The person pages here mark what is proven, what is likely, and what is open — the file flattens those grades into plain parent-and-child links. If you import it into your own tree, you are importing my current best understanding, including anything I may later correct. The case files show where the hard judgment calls were made, and the overview essay tells the story of what the numbers mean.
The living, working tree — always ahead of any snapshot — is on Ancestry (sign-in required).