The trees
The Lerena line and the families it married — each drawn in the form its own evidence supports.
The Lerena line, the shapes its name takes, and the family it married. State is derived from what this archive actually publishes: a line is DRAWN only where a chart of it exists, DRAWABLE where there are enough people to chart and no chart yet, and a ROUTE where there are too few.
Our line, drawnThe line this archive is about, as a chart — every generation it can name, and every place it stops.Open the chart →Rosario on the Paraná, to Cape Town, to the Rand, to Brisbane — one of the rarest surnames on earth. The line is continuous and documented from Pablo Armando down.
Above Bob Lerena it stops. Nobody knows why he left Argentina, on what ship, or in what year — only that he was born at Rosario in 1882 and his son was baptised at Cape Town by 1905.
Open the line →The same name, written four other ways by clerks who had not met it before. They are recorded here as variants of one family, not as families of their own.
How the name moves →Married into the line. Her parents named her after the fact that she was their seventh daughter. Drawn 14 September 2026, when five of her sisters' husbands stopped being bare surnames on a tree and became names on Devon parish registers.
Generation A is still a tree's assertion, and two of the ten children are still only that: the twin whose name nobody wrote down, and the infant William who died at eight months. The chart marks every node with how it is known.
Open the chart →The gap this archive most wants closed is at the top of its own line, and it is a gap about a reason rather than a record.