The Meiners-Hodes-Aumuller family claimed to be the largest multi-generational family in Kansas City years ago. This family is 7 generations strong and has around 3,729 living members. I am apart of this family. This year we had our biennial family picnic where 760 of us gathered at a local high school for an entire day. (We also have a summer bowling league with around 21 teams of 4)
A family tree for the Meiners-Hodes-Aumuller clan needs to identify the following 5 major things for each person. (this is in addition to capturing the family line of everyone)
1. Which one of the 8 major families do they belong to? (The family started with 5 brothers and 3 sisters. Two of the sisters married Hodes boys and 1 sister married an Aumuller. This family identifies themselves to others by stating which of the 8 they belong to.)
2. Which generation are they?
3. Are they married in or are they blood line lineage?
4. Are they dead or alive?
5. Do they happen to be one of the few that actually belong to two major families? (As weird as it may sound down the lineage line individuals that belong to a Meiners line have married in the Hodes line and vice versa. This is not incest due to the fact they are far enough apart and are barely, if any, blood related!)
Informational graphics can be breathtakingly beautiful while at the same time completely functional. They key, for myself, is to understand the information I am working with in and out. This might take some time, even though all of the information I need is within a directory that is staring at me on my desk.
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