Purpose

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  With some family trees, people put emphasis on ancestors - going back as far as possible. That's fine, but I'm more interested in the connections. I see it as a virtual family reunion, given that most of us are unlikely to meet in Real Life.
  
  The way I look at it, just about every forebear more than 2 generations past is just a name. We know their names and at the most, their dates, their job and where they lived. There is no flesh on the bones - no stories of what happened to them or what sort of person they were. Today's generation is of course, growing up heavily documented through social networks and ubiquitous cameras. I hope this family tree can be a bit more than a simple list of names and dates.
  
  One of the advantages of having this online is that can link to Facebook or Flickr pages so that you can get a bit of an idea of what your (distant) rellies are up to, and if you want, contact them. If you see a name in blue, you can click on it for more details.
  
  So if your name is here and you're happy to share social network addresses, please let me know. (Similarly feel free to link back to this page if you want to show others that you're a 7th or 8th generation Kiwi.)
  
  If there are corrections or additions, please let me know. I hope we can use this to help the wider family keep up with births, deaths and marriages.
  
  If you know of other family trees that intersect with ours, I'd like to link to them. If you have a paper-based record of your branch of the extended family which you'd like to put online, I'd be glad to help.
  
  There is also a pragmatic reason for this: Violet O'C had 6 daughters, of whom 5 developed Alzheimers Disease. As always with Alzheimers, nobody can say for sure whether genetic or environmental factors, or a combination of both, are responsible. I don't know if that has happened to others in that generation (Gen 5 in this chart), I'd be interested to hear if it has.
  
  Mike Tanner