“He’s my semi half brother. He shares three of the same mothers as me.” [Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie] Have you ever felt like identifying your family connections was as confusing as this quote? Was that my second cousin, or first cousin once removed? What is the great-grandchild of my third great-grandmother on my father’s side to me? Fortunately, G. H. Amber came up with an easy way for us to reference our family connections over seven generations. Amber’s two-sided wall chart Kinship Connections features 222 family relationships and blood lines. Amber refers to the chart as “A universal ‘family bush’ which illustrates every type of relationship, by consanguinity (blood) and affinity (marriage), for seven generations”
Side one of the chart features a full-color, 222 person “family bush.” The charts examines the connections for an individual stretching in both directions three generations. Using the information from the chart you can easily figure out the family connections in additional generations. The chart features the following color connections:
- red = direct blood kin
- orange = collateral blood kin (e.g. brother or sister)
- yellow = in-laws, direct affines
- blue =kin laws, secondary affines
- green =co-laws, collateral affines
- purple =kith-laws, extended affines
- white =kith, unrelated acquaintances
- brown =one’s spouse
- gray =one, from whom relationships extend
If you are not sure what all of this means, no worries, one look at the chart and it will all fill into place.
Side two also helps make things clear with three additional, but small, charts. Each one explains family connections through both figures as well as bulleted facts. These are the additional figures:
- Figure 2: Direct Blood and their collateral relationships
- Figure 3: Double Cousins
- Figure 4: Affine Kin Scheme of typical extended family
This great wall sized chart folds up to an approximate 6″ x 7″ making it easy to manage and carry with you as a reference.
Don’t lose track of your family lineage, order Kinship Connections from Family Roots Publishing, Item #: EV0010.