"Every family has its ups and downs" - so said Kathryn Hepburn in "The Lion In Winter" and ours is no exception, though we don't quite have the issues the King had when those words were spoken! Since 1994 when we began looking at the family history there have been a multitude of surprises, some minor and some traumatic in the extreme - finding out your mother and aunt's father was not the person you called "gramps" for over sixty years is a shock but it did open up a whole history of family members going back to 1245. A half sister and brother you didn't know about and the only nieces and nephews you will ever have also qualify I would suspect! To say nothing of 20 first cousins living in a driving radius of my two boys; and several hundred living relatives I have yet to meet personally.This site is intended to tell the story of the family with both a series of vignettes - those stories passed on from generation to generation that if not written down will be lost foreever; a series of photos both of people and places that are close to the family and a part of its history; and, a complete "searchable" family history, which no doubt will be outdated ten minutes after it is put on line - such being the case with all ongoing projects that involve input from many different people around the world. The  report is only available to family members and persons with the appropriate security key. The photo section is in place as a series of flash movies done through Photoshop Elements and a fun element of the site. The Picasa link is to the full family photo album and Complete Genealogy Reporter is discussed below.

Some amazing family statistics from the database (the difference between total individuals" and "direct" plus "indirect" individuals are "unconnected individuals" whose relationship is yet to be determinded, and anount to less than 1% of the total individuals):

Total Individuals:                     56,359
Total Families:                         18,264
Direct-Related:                             749
Indirect Related:                     55,154
Connected Males:                   28,173
Connected Females:                27,217

Average Lifespan:                    46.3 years
Av. Male Lifespan:                  45.9 years
Av. Female Lifespan:               46.7 years
Av. Number of Children          2.7 per family

Total Generations:   37
Earliest Birth Date:  1275 (Shamarya Zacuto, Spain)
Latest Birth Date:    2010 (Caeden Bowers, Uniited States)
Calendar Years covered:       735

 

The Complete Genealogy Reporter document (available by password only):

This is a report created from a "Gedcom" file in a narrative format.

The "Direct Relations" section reports the details of individuals who have a direct family connection to Richard A Jaeger. The section is broken into sub-sections for each generation, within which the individuals are listed in order of closeness of relationship. The sequence numbers are used throughout the document to cross-reference back to the detailed entry of an individual.

The "Indirect Relations" sections report the details of individuals who do not have a direct family connection to Richard A Jaeger, but do have direct family connections to an individual who is reported within the "Direct Relations" section, or within another section of indirect relations.

For example, Dick's mother and aunt are "direct relations" while his aunt's husband's brother would be indirect - still genealogically related but not a direct "blood" relative, like a brother, sister or parent (and their spouses). There can be a multitude of different relationships between two people, both direct and indirect, obvious and obtuse. A typical "indirect relation" for example might be the following explanation for how Caryn is related to Dick(other than "wife" which is the obvious direct relationship):

"Caryn Brodie is the 2nd cousin 1x removed of husband of sister-in-law of husband of wife of brother-in-law
of sister-in-law of brother-in-law of 3rd great grand aunt of Richard A Jaeger"

With a narrative section, each generation is shown as a separate subsection, within which the individuals are listed in order of the closeness of their relationship to Richard A Jaeger.
Click on the link below and follow the directions to reach the report - it is lengthy and does take time to load and to move around in some cases, depending of course on your operating speed and internet connection speed.

The Complete Genealogy Reporter (password required)

 

FLASH MOVIE PHOTO ALBUMS:

Brodie-Moss Family Photos

Collins - Australia Photos

Collins - Coronel US & UK

Fauerbach-Koenigheit

Jaeger Family Photos

Weissman-Small Photos

 

THE PICASA ALBUMS:

The Jaeger-Benjamin Family Album