For the next generation
Two family books, written down.
This is a record kept for the children who will carry these names — for Lara, for cousins who are not yet old enough to ask, for the nieces and nephews on both sides of the Atlantic. Two books: the family Benjamin's father came from, and the family Fernanda was born into. The stories are not ordered by importance; they are ordered so that they can be read.
Beneath each book is a directory of every named person we know — 880 names so far, sixteen generations deep. The directory is the index at the back. The books are the front.
913
named people
1098
life events
1174
parent-child links
16
generations
Benjamin's father's family
Thompson · Hoffmann · Kipp
An American family with German names — frontier Tennessee, immigrant Cincinnati, two world wars.
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Fernanda's family
Elias · Siqueira
A family that crossed the Atlantic the other way — Brazilian and Portuguese roots, told for the children who will carry them.
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A note on what's gated and what isn'tThe chapters and the names of people no longer living are public. Photographs and details about living children of this family are kept behind a family login, which we'll add once we have photographs to gate. Until then everything visible is everything we have.
—The directory
At the back of the books: every named person across both families, searchable.
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