1. INTRODUCTION

STATISTICS

This document reports the details of 2954 individuals, of which 1469 are male and 1432 are female. Of the 1387 individuals with recorded birth and death dates, the average lifespan was 63.8 years. Of these, 720 males averaged 63.3 years, and 667 females averaged 64.4 years.

The longest living male was Price Hamrick, who died aged 117. The longest living female was Mary Missing, who died aged 118.

There are 845 families reported. 470 of these families are reported as having children, with an average of 4.7 children per family.


THE NARRATIVE SECTIONS

The "Direct Relations" section reports the details of individuals who have a direct family connection to Shane Lee Hamrick. 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.


COUSIN RELATIONSHIPS

Cousin relationships are determined by distance (first, second, third, etc.), and times removed. Distance is determined as one less than the lower number of the previous generations traversed back from each of the individuals until the first common ancestor is found. Thus, if two people of the same generation have a common great-grandparent (three generations back), they are second cousins.

Removal is determined by the number of generations which separate the two people. For example, consider your first cousin's children. Because your common ancestor with them is your grandfather (two generations back) and their great-grandfather (three generations back), you are first cousins, once removed.


FAMILY TREES SECTION

Each family tree shows the reported children, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of a family group. In order to reduce redundancy, any family group which is wholly included within another family tree may not be reported separately.

Above each of the great-grandparent boxes (top row), a continuation family tree reference number in angle brackets is shown if the great-grandparent is recorded as a child in the continuation tree. A continuation reference number is also shown to the left of a grandparent or parent box if that individual has siblings reported in the continuation tree; and beneath a child box (bottom row) if that individual has children reported in the continuation tree.

In cases of multiple marriages, a continuation reference number preceded by "=" is shown to the right of a parent box. This number references the previous and/or next tree in which that individual is shown with another partner.