Whose line
Davis & Trenckmann — Will’s side
Boren & Farmer — Kari’s side
Both families lived here
The ring is the family. The dot inside keeps the rank colour used on the trees.
Rank of the people there
Emperor / High King
King / Queen / Royal
Earl / Count / Duke / Baron
Gentry / European family
Colonial American
American (1800s–today)
How precisely we know it
A tight ring is a named town or parish. The looser the ring, the vaguer the record — a dotted haze means the documents say only “England” or “France,” and the dot sits at the middle of the country, not at a known address.
Place names
Names show in English by default. Switch to
local names to see them as the records do — Stráň rather than Elm,
Praha rather than Prague. Roads are deliberately left off: over satellite imagery
they bury the family.
Borders
Present-day borders are shown — countries as the firmer
line, states and provinces lighter beneath them. Bear in mind they are an anachronism
over the older ancestors: there was no France or Germany in the ninth century, and no
Texas until 1836. Switch them off with the Borders button.
Seeing the dots
Each marker sits in a small pool of shade, so it stays legible
whether it falls on ocean, desert or cloud. If the imagery is still too busy, Dim
imagery calms the whole picture without touching the dots, names or lines.
The lines
Each curve is one family’s move between two places. Thicker means more ancestors made that move.