The Burns Pedigree

THE FAMILY OF JONATHAN BURNS
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Four centuries, laid end to end

Every recorded life as a bar, oldest first. Solid red marks the Burns surname; hatched bars are lives with no recorded death date. Red marks below are moments the family lived through — tap one.

The register

Trace a connection

Pick any two people in the record and this walks the shortest path between them, one parent, child or marriage at a time.

Notes on the record

Family names, by headcount
Births by half-century
Age when the next generation arrived
Recorded lifespans, by century of birth

Alive in 1800

Drag the year and see who was around, and how old they were — a snapshot of the whole family at any moment across four centuries.

Name inheritance

This family recycled first names hard. Pick one to see where it was handed straight from parent to child, and who else carried it.

The ancestor fan

Stephen at the centre, one ring per generation, the father on the left of each pair. Filled cells are recorded ancestors; the white space is where the research ran out. Tap any filled cell.

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How complete each generation is
Nearest gaps — where to dig next

Where they were born

Every mapped birthplace, sized by how many of the family were born there. The brass line traces the family's centre of gravity, half-century by half-century — the Derbyshire and Yorkshire side drifting up to meet Tyneside. Tap a dot for names; drag and pinch to move about.

Births per place
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Most common birthplaces

Parishes are placed using the GeoNames gazetteer; a handful resolve only to county level, and a few records (Flanders, HMS Engadine, Pennsylvania) sit off this map entirely.