Ever think how family trees have become more complex over time? Long ago, they were relatively simple to visualize, a steadily branching tree. Nowadays, they are anything but simple. Marriages, if they even happen, often end and new ones begin, sometimes repeatedly. Children may be produced in each of them, some of them, or not at all. You can end up with a multiplicity of surnames and vaguely linked family trees.
Pity the family historian years down the road, trying to make sense of it all. That person could easily get lost in the forest of family trees that is created over time.
Yes but a good genealogist will figure it out. It will be a challenge but the search is the passion. Or someone in the family can leave some very well written notes and charts. Love the picture-so symbolic of the topic.
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