So, with Glenn’s blessing, I re-created the chart in Adobe Illustrator and have now posted it online in a large-scale version that you can view in a separate browser window or, if you prefer, download and print. Any post referencing the chart will offer a blog-size version of it, but the larger version will enable you to read the information easily.
The online version can always be found here. From that page you can (1) view the entire chart, (2) click on the chart in order to zoom in on a portion of it, or (3) download the chart to your computer, to do with it what you will (e.g., print it or save it for offline viewing).
To download the chart, click on the arrow-pointing-down-at-a-line icon that the red line is pointing to in the lower right of the screen shot below. I recommend downloading the original-size version, for the sharpest resolution.
A few words of explanation will help us navigate and use the chart most effectively.
1. The four shaded and numbered levels are the four generations represented: with George and Dina being generation 1, their three sons generation 2, six grandsons generation 3, and fifteen great-grandsons generation 4.
2. The shaded area for generation 4 lists all the sons of the generation 3 father. For example, on the far left, Hans was the father of Andreas, David, and Heinrich, while Hans’s brother George (just to the right) was the father of George and Peter, and so on. The point to remember is that generation 4 is laid out differently than the other three generations, and all the males listed under a given father were brothers.
3. Because generation 4 consists of six columns (six sets of brothers), we might also assign the labels column A, column B, column C, column D, column E, and column F to the family lines. Thus, Peter 359 and his three sons can be referred to as column D.
4. As you probably suspect, the number given under each person’s name is the Przechowka church book entry. We will typically use the first name and number (e.g., George 375) as a simple way of identifying the exact Buller in view.
5. Additional information of interest is listed below each name, but not everything known is listed for each person, and information about a person’s or a line’s movement is given priority. Thus one can see at a glance that columns A and B were generally associated with the villages of Driesen/Neumark, while the families of column F mostly went to Volhynia. Columns C, D, E, and one family in F are linked more closely with Alexanderwohl, in Molotschna colony.
6. The chart summarizes the information found in the Przechowka church book. There were Bullers in the Schwetz area who are not listed in the PCB (Benjamin father of David being the most notable example for us); they are obviously not included on the chart (yet).
7. To follow up on and reiterate the last point, we cannot say with certainty that Peter 354 had only one son or that George 3XXXX had only two. The chart presents the family relations that we know, but it does not assume that there were no others. To focus on our own situation, we cannot be certain that Benjamin father of David was a direct descendant of one of the six Bullers in generation 3. There may have been another member (or more) in that generation who is not listed in the church book but from whom Benjamin was descended. The wisest course is for us to admit that, for now, we simply do not know.
I think we are now ready to put the chart to use, as future posts attempt to sort out where the Bullers we encounter fit into the greater scheme of our family history.
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