Family paths keep historical branches organized by surnames, regions, and records. They can meet at evidence-graded marriages, parentage claims, or descendants without turning every person into one enormous public tree.
Browse the paths
One archive, distinct branches.
A path is an organizing doorway—not an evidence grade. Its first intended junction is graded visibly below; individual claims retain their own grades inside the connected files.
PATH 01
Available now
Laredo and the lower Rio Grande
Herrera–Torres
The active Laredo path now begins with José Albino Herrera and María Victoriana Mendiola, then continues through Pedro Herrera and Francisca Torres using household, parish, military, occupational, and pension records.
This path holds Indigenous Gran Canaria research, the Dara/Ara reconstruction, Francisco Báez de Benavides, and later New Spain connections without borrowing certainty across missing generations.
The active MacNamara–York path begins with Major Edwin Joseph MacNamara and places his life inside the Atlantic City, Pennsylvania, and military record.
Visible connection gradeDocumented fact
MacNamara, York, and Donohoe family junctionsEdwin’s certified birth record and 1956 marriage record establish the public historical junctions; later descendants remain private.
BoundaryThe public path stops at Edwin and Ann’s five children without naming or indexing living generations.
Pennsylvania · Alaska service · industrial history
Rudolph–Morrison
The active path begins with Richard W. Rudolph and follows the Pennsylvania, Air Force, oral-history, and industrial records already cleared for public use.
Visible connection gradeDocumented fact
Richard W. RudolphThe published person file establishes the path’s first deceased historical anchor without exposing its living connection to another family.
BoundaryRichard’s wife and later descendants remain collective unless a potentially living person gives direct informed consent for a defined historical purpose.
Civil War researchA later Morrison file remains in evidence review
PATH 05
Available now
Maryland · Northern Virginia · federal fire service
Burrier–Culver
The active path begins with David Monroe Burrier and follows his Maryland beginnings, Fort Belvoir career, Davison crash-rescue work, and carefully bounded family record.
Visible connection gradeDocumented fact
David Monroe BurrierThe person file establishes the first deceased historical anchor without exposing the living generations beyond him.
BoundaryDavid’s children and later descendants remain collective; the living connection into another family is preserved outside the public site.
Fort Belvoir fire-service researchPersonnel, accident, Taiwan, and award records remain active targets
PATH 06
Researching
Texas and Mexico
Sánchez–Sosa
A distinct historical path for the Sánchez and Sosa families, designed to connect with Herrera research only at documented junctions.
Visible connection gradeUnresolved
First reviewed Herrera–Sosa junctionThe intended connection remains unnamed until the historical records and publication boundary are audited.
BoundaryThe living people through whom these historical paths connect remain private.
First reviewed historical junctionNames withheld pending release review
PATH 07
Planned
Family, migration, and Pennsylvania records
German Ancestry Research
A dedicated path for German-speaking ancestors and their migration, church, civic, and occupational records.
Visible connection gradeUnresolved
First documented family junctionNo connection receives a stronger grade until the initial family files complete their prior-work and evidence audit.
BoundaryThe path will be divided by documented families rather than grouped by nationality alone.
Initial family filesPrior-work audit required
Connection rules
How a reader moves between families.
01
Follow the first meaningful name
A biography links the first useful prose mention; repeated names remain ordinary text.
02
Keep branches separately labeled
Every person file states its family path and related collections instead of merging them invisibly.
03
Cross only on evidence
A documented marriage, parentage record, or explicitly graded reconstruction controls every junction.
Another way through the archive
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A public historical archive of people, places, family paths, maps, source trails, and unfinished research—with every claim kept at the level its evidence supports.