Family Lines
Six research clusters, each documenting a distinct branch of the tree in depth.
Hudson Valley & Delaware River frontier
Barrett – Reeves – Barnes – Bartle
Grandmother Christine Bartle Barnes's line — the frontier corridor where four separate Revolutionary War patriot lines converge in one generation.
Irish · Famine-era NYC & Jersey City
Dowling – Curry – Kelly – Gilroy
Grandmother Margaret Mary Dowling's family — famine-era Irish immigration to New York, exceptionally well documented across ten census years.
Sicilian · Bagheria & Carini, Palermo
Domilici – Mineo – Bagheria, Palermo
Great-grandfather Simone Domilici's family — a 400-year documented Mineo lineage running from Carini through Bagheria.
Sicilian · Trapani & Palermo provinces
Maiale (Mazara del Vallo) & Zito (Bisacquino)
Two Sicilian threads from different provinces — a genuine documentary brick wall in Mazara del Vallo, and six generations of parish records in Bisacquino.
Colonial Connecticut
Norwich & Stonington, CT
The tree's most tightly interconnected cluster — families who didn't just live in the same towns, they founded them together.
Colonial Rhode Island
Newport & Westerly, RI
A dissenting Baptist/Sabbatarian community that fled Massachusetts persecution with Roger Williams and founded Providence, then Westerly.