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Contents

The whole archive as one book: front matter and six parts, in reading order.

Front

Front matter

  1. F.1 The coverBerlin, Schubin, Sauerbaum, Lourenço Marques, Johannesburg, Porto.
  2. F.2 The storyThe family of record told once, as a short book: five generations, every paragraph marked.
  3. F.3 MethodWhat the labels mean, and who is missing.
I

I. From Posen and East Prussia to Berlin 🇵🇱 🇩🇪

Schubin and Hammerstein in Posen, Sauerbaum and Allenstein in East Prussia, then Berlin. The Atlas puts every place the archive can date on one map, and the lines of the name keep the households of one surname apart until a document joins them.

  1. I.1 AtlasEvery place this archive can put a date to.
  2. I.2 The lines of the nameHouseholds of these surnames kept apart, each on a lane of its own, until a document joins them.
  3. I.3 Sauerbaum and AllensteinThe Catholic half: Joachim Luwinski, Johanna Thimm, and their daughter Auguste.
  4. I.4 The Leibholz brothersSchubin in Posen, then Berlin, then Auschwitz and Chełmno.
II

II. Two lines, and the families behind them 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇵🇹

The tree grades every person on a five-word ladder, and behind it run two lines: the family of record, and the English line the DNA points to. Twelve surname lines each have a page of their own, and each repeats the tree's own words about its links.

  1. II.1 The treeThe ancestry as it now stands, graded on the five-word ladder.
  2. II.2 The familiesTwelve surname lines, each with a page of its own.

The line of record

  1. II.3 The Luwinski familyLuwinski: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  2. II.4 The Leibholz familyLeibholz: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  3. II.5 The Thimm familyThimm: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  4. II.6 The Schmul familySchmul: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.

The English line

  1. II.7 Where the Wear line standsFive generations, and the four questions above them.
  2. II.8 The Wear familyWear: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  3. II.9 The Castle familyCastle: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  4. II.10 The Hawkins familyHawkins: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  5. II.11 The Giddins familyGiddins: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  6. II.12 The Larkin familyLarkin: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  7. II.13 The Wallis familyWallis: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
  8. II.14 The Bloom familyBloom: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.

Portugal and Mozambique

  1. II.15 The Figueiredo familyFigueiredo: who bears the name, where, and how well each link is known.
III

III. Away: Johannesburg, Lourenço Marques, Melbourne 🇿🇦 🇲🇿 🇵🇹 🇦🇺

One man left Berlin for Johannesburg. One woman born at Lourenço Marques married there and was buried at Porto, and a survey sets out where the Mozambican records are kept. A branch sailed to Australia in 1965, and the National Archives of Australia holds files nobody has opened.

  1. III.1 Kurt Israel LuwinskiBerlin 1912, Johannesburg 1968.
  2. III.2 Ivone de FigueiredoLourenço Marques 1922, Vila Nova de Gaia 2010.
  3. III.3 Where the Mozambican records areA survey: searched, not assumed.
  4. III.4 AustraliaA branch that sailed in 1965, a Leibholz who got out in 1939, and eleven files nobody has opened.
IV

IV. How the lines join 🇿🇦 🇬🇧

Two marriages in 1948 and a divorce action; a DNA test the paper record set for itself; the English household the shared segments point to; and the people joined by what the archive has read, drawn around any one of them. No document yet joins the second line to the first.

  1. IV.1 1948Two marriages, one divorce action, and a child.
  2. IV.2 What the DNA saysA test the paper record set for itself, and failed.
  3. IV.3 Leonard Aubrey Robert WearHitchin 1917, Johannesburg, died 1973 or 1979, and this archive cannot say which.
  4. IV.4 DerrickNamed, and nothing more.
  5. IV.5 Blood relativesPeople joined by what this archive has read, drawn around a chosen person.
V

V. Everyone, and everything in order

Every person this archive names has a page, and each belongs to The people and links back to it. The register, the names a woman is filed under and the dated events in order follow.

  1. V.1 The peopleEvery person this archive names has a page of their own.
  2. V.2 The registerPeople from the source tree and people found in registers, each with a page of their own.
  3. V.3 The names she is filed underSix spellings of a maiden surname, three of a forename and four married surnames.
  4. V.4 The TimelineEvery dated event in the archive's own record files, in order.
VI

VI. How we know, and what is missing

The working notes, kept inside the book: what has been read and what has only been identified, what cannot be answered yet, the corrections to the family's own record, the letters drafted and sent, and the work still to do.

  1. VI.1 SourcesWhat has been read, and what has only been identified.
  2. VI.2 What has actually been readThe records and files this archive has actually read.
  3. VI.3 Open questionsThings this archive cannot answer yet, in the order they are worth attacking.
  4. VI.4 CorrectionsWhat the family record said, what this archive says instead, and the evidence.
  5. VI.5 ErrandsLetters drafted and sent, and who has answered.
  6. VI.6 The work listWhat is being done here, as opposed to what is known.
  7. VI.7 StatusEvery open thread in one place, and the date it last moved.
  8. VI.8 What changedWhat was done, in the order it was done.