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Now, how did he determine our relationship from the chart number two?

Understanding and using the chart is not as difficult as it may appear. Likely the
most difficult part is finding a starting place. For distant relatives it may be
necessary to start back as far as JAMES FOY or THOMAS FOY. But,for our
Cisco Clan relatives we only need to start with, JOHN ELON FOY, my great
grandfather.

This chart is constructed in the form of a parallelogram. That’s an old math term

meaning a four sided object whose sides parallel each other. The chart could just
as easily have been made into that type parallelogram we sometimes call a
rectangle but it is easier to read if we squoosh the rectangle a little.

To use the chart we have to find a comman relative. The common relative we
start with on our calculation is labeled “CP” at the top of the chart which stands
for Common Progenitor. All the letters used in the chart are explained on the
chart.

To use the chart one simply lists the CP, (in the top space), then that person’s son
or daughter in the space beside #1. Beside space #2 you write in the name of the
son or daughter of the person represented by space #1 and repeat that process
until you get to the name of the person for whom you are trying to establish a
relationship with another person.

The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc stand for generations. On this particular chart there

is only room for ten generations. Ten generations, however, will generally cover
a span of two to three hundred years.

Lets look at the next chart which has been filled out.

In this chart we are trying to determine the relationship of RICHARD MILLER
and EUGENE CHESSON. We know that both our families came through two
different sons of JAMES FOY, i.e. LEWIS FOY and JAMES FOY JR. Therefore
the name JAMES FOY is put at the top of the chart as the CP (common progitor).

On the RICHARD MILLER side, JAMES FOY (our CP) had a son named

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