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 .
 . *** Instructions for use.
 .
 .  Each generation is indicated by a letter, starting with "b". Since 
 . generations across families do not fall into any neat pattern of years, 
 . extra or missing generations can appear within families (for example, 
 . someone being older than his uncle).
 .
 .  The layout of generations is centered on my grandparents, James V 
 . McCarthy and Julia Reddy. 
 .
 .     'b' - great-grandparents of James and Julia
 .     'c' - grandparents of James and Julia
 .     'd' - parents of James and Julia
 .     'e' - James and Julia
 .     'f' - children of James and Julia
 .     'g' - grandchildren of James and Julia
 .     'h' - great-grandchildren of James and Julia
 .     'i' - great-great-grandchildren of James and Julia
 .
 .  Every person is identified by a 'line code'.  This code consists of
 . five characters: the first is a letter representing the generation
 . (as noted above); the second is the first letter of the person's
 . surname; the third through fifth are a 3-digit code, which may
 . consist of letters and numbers.
 .
 .  A person who initially appears due to marrying a Red Islander does
 . not have his/her own line code;  he/she shares the code of his/her
 . spouse.  An exception is made where two or more brothers/sisters
 . married Red Islanders.
 .
 .  Families are grouped together into 'family boxes'.
 .
 .  The first line of each box starts with a line code ending with an
 . 'x', indicating the range of line codes that can be within the box
 . (for example, code 'cb10x' indicates that line codes cb100 through
 . cb10z are assigned to this family box).  If the rest of the first
 . line is blank, then the people within the box may or may not be
 . related (their parents' names are not known); otherwise the rest of
 . the first line names the parents of the family.  If a line code
 . precedes a parent's name, it is a pointer back to where the parent is
 . listed as a child in his/her parents' family box.
 .
 .  One line is used for each child of a set of parents.  It contains
 . the child's own line code, birthplace code (if known), birthyear or
 . 'bbbb' (if date not known), a '+' or '-', the child's full name, and
 . comments.  The '+-' indicates whether ('+') or not ('-') there is a
 . marriage record for this child in the family box.  If a child is
 . known by a nickname, other than a common alteration or shortening of
 . the first name (such as Min, Mae, Bill, Jim, Ellie, Kate, etc), or by
 . a middle name, it appears in apostrophes as part of the name.  If the
 . child is known by a religious name, it appears in parentheses to the
 . right of the name.  The comments are generally notes when someone
 . had no children or died young.  A comment in the form 'D-yyyy'
 . indicates year of death.
 .
 .  Each child entry that has a '+' also has another entry within the
 . box to detail a marriage and/or identify the parents of a child.  The
 . person listed first on the marriage line is the member of this family
 . box.  Next is the marriage year, birthyear of the oldest child, or
 . 'mmmm' (if the date is not known).  The name of the spouse follows.
 . If a reference in the form '(also .....)' appears on the line, it
 . indicates that the spouse also appears elsewhere in his/her own
 . family box.  An entry above or to the right of a marriage line may
 . contain a birth year (B-....) and/or place of birth and/or a death
 . year (D-....).  Additionally, a line above a marriage may contain
 . parents' names for one of the people (these parents' names do not
 . appear in the index and do not count toward the name total for the
 . document).  The extra 'parents line' only occurs for a person who
 . does not appear elsewhere as a child in a family box.  If a person
 . married more than once, the line code on the first marriage is
 . suffixed with an 'a', the second with a 'b', etc.  The line after a
 . marriage may specify that the couple had no children or may point
 . forward to a family box where the childrens' names appear.
 .
 .   A '?' immediately following a name means that the name may be
 . incorrect.  A '?' alone means a name is not known.
 .
 .  When there are two (or more) birth dates or birth places seperated
 . by '/', it means that different records have conflicting information.
 .
 .  When a name appears in the format "John E 'Edward' Jones", it means
 . (in this example) that John Edward Jones was known as Edward Jones.
 .
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 .
 .  When any year is immediately preceeded by a '@', it indicates that
 . the year is approximate, but probably correct within one year.
 .
 .  When a marriage year is immediately preceeded by a '<', it indicates
 . that the marriage year is not known, but is probably not later than
 . the year shown, based on the birth year of the oldest known child.
 .
 .  When a birth year is immediately preceeded by a '<', it indicates
 . that the birth year is not known, but is probably not later than the
 . year shown.  When preceded by a '>', it indicates that the birth
 . year is probably not earlier than the year shown.
 .
 .  When a death year is immediately preceeded by a '<', it indicates
 . that the death year is not known, but is not later than the year shown.
 .
 .  Method for determining '<' (no later than) birth and marriage years.
 .
 .  . For a marriage year: the birth year of the oldest child.
 .
 .  . For a man's birth year: the earlier of (1) 20 years before his
 .    marriage year and (2) his wife's birth year.
 .
 .  . For a woman's birth year: the earlier of (1) 18 years before her
 .    marriage year and (2) 10 years after her husband's birth year.
 .
 .  Method for determining '>' (no earlier than) birth years.
 .
 .    For a woman's birth year: if the marriage year is unknown, her
 .    husband's birth year is used.
 .
 .    For a child: the parents' marriage year is used.
 .
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 .
 . *** Example of how to read this document.
 .
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 . cj00x Parents bj000 John Jones & Jane Smith
 .          cj000     bbbb + James Jones
 .          cj001 Red 1846 - Thomas Jones, died first year.
 .          cj002 Red 1848 + Anne Jones
 .
 . cj000 -> James Jones 1872 Mary Doe (also cd300)
 .             children -> dj00x
 .
 . cj002 -> Anne Jones mmmm Robert ? (B-1845)
 .             no children
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 . cd30x
 .
 . cd300 -> Mary Doe 1872 James Jones (also cj000)
 .             children -> dj00x
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 . dj00x Parents cj000 James Jones & cd300 Mary Doe
 .          dj000 Red 1874 - William Jones
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 .
 .  John Jones, who appears as a child in family box bj00x, and Jane
 . Smith are the parents in family box cj00x.  They had three children -
 . James, Thomas and Anne.  Two of the childrens' birthyears and birth-
 . places are known.  Two of the children married; the third died young.
 .
 . James married Mary Doe in 1872.  Mary appears in a different family
 . box (the 'also' entry), but her parents' names are not known.  James
 . and Mary had children, pointed to by the 'children' entry below their
 . names.
 .
 .  Anne married a man named Robert (born in 1845), last name unknown,
 . marriage year unknown.  They had no children.
 .
 .  Family box dj00x is the family of James Jones and Mary Doe.  It has
 . pointers back to the family boxes where they appear as children
 . (cj000 and cd300).  William Jones (dj000) is their son, born in 1874
 . on Red Island.  No further information is available about William.
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 .
 . *** Sample extract of a family tree.
 .
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 .
 .  The diagram below is a sample extract showing the relationship of
 . Katie Cummins to her great-great-great-great-grandfathers Thomas
 . McCarthy and James Fagan, and her great-great-great-great grandmother
 . Mary Kelly.
 .
 .  Note that relatives by descent from Thomas and Mary McCarthy (bm200)
 . would be, assuming equal generation levels, second cousins to James
 . V McCarthy (em200), but fifth cousins to Katie Cummins (hc930).
 .
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 . bm200 -> Thomas McCarthy mmmm Mary Kelly
 .             cm109 Red <1847 + James McCarthy
 .
 . cm109 -> James McCarthy 1863 Sarah Connor
 .             dm151 Red 1864 + Thomas Vincent McCarthy
 .
 . dm151 -> Thomas V McCarthy 1891 Anastasia Fitzgerald
 .             em200 Red 1892 + James Vincent McCarthy
 .
 . em200 -> James V McCarthy 1918 Mary J 'Julia' Reddy
 .             fm103 Red 1924 + Anastasia Joseph McCarthy
 .
 . fm103 -> Anastasia J McCarthy 1946 John Stephen Hennessey
 .             gh552 USA 1951 + Victoria Mary Hennessey
 .
 . gh552 -> Victoria M Hennessey 1975 Light Townsend Cummins
 .             hc930 USA 1984 - Katherine Anne Cummins
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 . bf100 -> James Fagan 1845 Mary Kelly
 .             cf100 Red 1847 + Elizabeth Fagan
 .
 . cf100 -> Elizabeth Fagan 1866 Michael Reddy
 .             dr102 Red 1871 + James Reddy
 .
 . dr102 -> James Reddy 1896 Mary Anne Murphy
 .             er200 Red 1897 + Mary Julia 'Julia' Reddy
 .
 . er200 -> Mary J 'Julia' Reddy 1918 James V McCarthy
 .             fm103 Red 1924 + Anastasia Joseph McCarthy
 .
 . fm103 -> Anastasia J McCarthy 1946 John Stephen Hennessey
 .             gh552 USA 1951 + Victoria Mary Hennessey
 .
 . gh552 -> Victoria M Hennessey 1975 Light Townsend Cummins
 .             hc930 USA 1984 - Katherine Anne Cummins
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