These interactive networks are one way into the project’s data — the same people,
families, places, and documents you can explore in the
Index of Individuals,
the
Live Family Tree,
and the
Cluster Map,
here re-arranged around a single individual. Each network assembles what the archive currently
records about one person — either a person of African descent enslaved by the
Van Kouwenhoven–Conover family, or one of the family members who enslaved them —
together with their kin, the people tied to them through bondage, the places they lived, and the
wills, manumissions, birth registries, and church records that preserve these names. Choose a name
from either menu to load a network; click any node to open source-level detail. The
Methodology
page explains how the data is assembled, what the visual conventions mean, and what we know we don’t know.