Our Family Tree

An Easy View of Relatives in Our Family Tree

I used Family Echo for a simplified Meinhard Samsel Family tree. It begins with a copy of the Ancestry.com work of Doris and George.  Their work has the definitive family genealogies which are much more extensive and with in-depth information. However, it isn't wise to extend it to the cousins so, let's use this Family Echo tree to add our spouse's families and our cousins.

The tree is open to everyone's family so if you are willing to add more of your family, log in to gain editing privileges. You have to use my log-in name, rmeinhard with DDDRDDms.

It's simple to use. Click on a name and the tree repositions and shows relations to that person. Then click on the relative to add to that person. So, click on Janet and you see this (this picture cut off the right side):

Click on "add parents" and add each one.

When we had a wedding, I showed this tree to people who didn't know all of our family members. It gave us something concrete to talk about.

Doug also posted family genealogies in "docs."