Family Trees

The story of 'Sempre; finding home' covers various generations in both Portugal and England in my attempt to show how lives overlap and destinies entwine.

Understandably, the number of names and family connections can be difficult to follow, so it was my 'marido' who suggested family trees to help the reader follow those relationships. These were something I had already drawn up while writing about the characters in the book, but this information was scattered over several sheets of paper with multiple crossings out and revised dates of birth. 

The free program Stephen used (my family tree) to show who's related to who is wonderful, but has its quirks that didn't work for our purposes; putting in a date of birth calculated the ages of those still living to the present day, since the story is set a few years back the ages could have proven misleading to the reader, so I hope you will forgive the lack of some information you may have liked.

There is a link between the families of Henrique, Jennifer and Horácio, but because there are none of the 'bridging' generation in the story, I have not provided their branches.  

For those of you who have read the story, it may even be worth a second look with a little more clarity. 😁

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