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Family Pages

The page gives an overview of what these pages are for:

Pages describing the history of a specific family. These pages are primarily concerned with events occurring in the parents' household(s) between their marriage and their death. They may also include details of the parents' childhoods, the children's lives, and notable descendants.

Where there are multiple sets of parents (due to death, divorce, etc.), the page typically includes details about all sets of parents; if this is infeasible, multiple family pages may exist.

Page names refer to a "primary" couple, typically the biological parents of a child of interest. The names used are a short form of the names by which the couple would have been known contemporarily.

Aliases may exist for alternate forms of the couple's name (e.g., if a person commonly uses a nickname, or there are multiple couples) and as a shortcut from the name of just one parent.

Some details:

What families can have a page? Broadly, any direct-line ancestors of Earl and Catherine Green. The primary focus is on 19th- and 20th-century families, because reliable, detailed earlier records are hard to find, and because beyond 5 or 6 generations, the number of branches is unwieldy. Descendants of ancestors (cousins, etc.) should not get their own pages, but can be discussed briefly at the bottom of the nearest shared ancestors' page.

Multiple spouses. More often than not, at least one parent was married more than once during his or her lifetime. Former spouses, step-parents, polygamous spouses, etc., are usually considered part of the "family" and are listed among the parents. Their other spouses are also included, and so on. Theoretically, this chain could go on forever, although it's usually manageable.

If the set of parents is too large, or the real-life relationship between different members of the "family" is too tenuous, the family can be split across two or more pages. In doing so, you need to decide which couples will be covered on each page—every couple should belong to exactly one page. On the other hand, there will always be one person who appears as a parent in both families. Typically, this person will bridge two otherwise unrelated groups of people—for example, a father who got divorced, moved to another state, and then married someone else.

Grandparent families.