I had this longstanding idea of tracing our genealogy - something like looking for our roots. We did have a proper family tree - this is somewhere in India - when I get hold of it, I will make it even more elaborate. Right now, I have worked with my father to start with 3 Generations ahead of me, that is from my great grand father. This is from oral history, as told to me by my father. Will be adding comments regarding backgrounds, then and there. This is one way of tying up multiple relationships in a complex closely inter-married clan. We don't remember the names of some of the spouses and/or the children. I own responsibility for errors of omission or commission. My father gets the credit for his prodigal memory of the complex history.

I tried to think of several formats to present this picture. The most ideal way would have been to do a hierarchy chart. But this did not seem to be easily doable (at least, I am not quite good at it). So what I am trying to do is this.

For each generation, I am giving a unique number - starting with Moola Purushan, who is the first generation. I am in the fourth generation. For each progeny, I am giving a unique number. For a family with 10 or more children, I am classifying them as a, b, c, etc., instead of 1, 2, etc. If the number of children is 9 or less, then they are classified as 1, 2, etc. My ancestors had several children and quite a few of them died, of various diseases. My own grandfather was a doctor, his wife (my grandmother) had 10 children out of which only 5 survived and grew up into adults. This family history takes into account only the children who survived into adulthood.

Each progeny gets a unique number which is identifiable through a html tag. I will show this html tag in the form of a hierarchy tag, if possible.