people & family lines:
This is the family of John Hancock and Barbara Burrows — the parents of David, Mark and Josh — and it reaches back along both of their lines: Barbara's Queensland family on the green side, and John's English family on the blue side. It is built as an "hourglass": John and Barbara sit in the middle, and every generation of ancestors fans out, one column further back, to left and right.
Genealogy is never all certain, and this archive shows its uncertainty rather than hiding it. Each person carries a confidence percentage — how sure we are of them. Where it matters, two separate figures are shown: "Genuinely family" (are they really our blood?) and "Exact link/placement shown" (is this precise connection correct?). The chart at the bottom tracks how our certainty falls as the generations go back. Only people above 30% certain are shown at all — guesswork is left out.
When a panel shows a "To confirm" note, that is the exact record — a parish register, a certificate, a will — that would turn a careful inference into a proven fact. It is the next piece of the puzzle for that person.
A dashed box is a collateral relative or a connection shown on purpose but not yet nailed down — an uncle, a cousin, a famous link (Byron's banker Charles Hancock), or a family line whose documents run out. An amber dashed "gap" marker means the records genuinely stop there for now: it marks honestly where more research is needed, rather than inventing an answer.