My Awesome Figgin' Family

Family

The people I love and the stories we share

Extended-family group photo, summer 2024
The three kids together

This part of the site is about my kids and the families they came from. Patience, Daniel, and Faith are the reason I'm here — three kids I never thought I'd have, given the Hajdu-Cheney Syndrome that I figured I would never take that risk on. Around the three of them are the rest of it: Cheesmans, Dochertys and McIvers, Lakemans and Verbooms, Rycrofts and Steinkes, and Haistes. Eight family lines, a handful of stories, and the things I want my kids to be able to find later if they go looking.

The Family Tree

Heritage

Eight lines, one household

The deeper read on where the kids came from — the Cheesmans, Dochertys, Lakemans, Rycrofts, and Haistes, and the McIver, Verboom, and Steinke lines that married into them, each with their own page.

Or watch all eight converge: the Lanterns of Record — four centuries of records on one map →

Most of the recent family photos on these pages were taken by my good friend Dalyn Echo in summer 2024. Thanks Dalyn.

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