The Family Tree
Coming soonPedigree, sunburst, and a wandering web of cousins — three ways to look at the same lineage.
Anno Domini MMXXVI · A Family Register
The Hyten Family
A Genealogy & Living Archive
A record of where we come from — six hundred and ninety-five souls traced from medieval England and Switzerland to colonial Maryland to the Indiana frontier, joined in the present age by Mother's line from Hongseong, in the province of South Chungcheong, Korea.
Compiled from parish registers, census enumerations, deeds, wills, gravestones, and family memory. Updated as truth emerges.
The Volumes Within
What This Archive Will Hold
The Persons
Now browsableSix hundred and ninety-five souls across eighteen generations, organized by lineage and birth.
Conversations With the Archive
Coming soonAsk any question of the family's history. Every answer is bound to the source that gave it.
The Photograph Cabinet
Coming soonPhotographs gathered, dated, and shelved by decade, by face, by place. Restored when asked.
Story Arcs
Coming soonFrom Maryland to the Indiana frontier. The Salem connection. The Mennonite line from Switzerland. Mother's journey from Korea.
Of Particular Note
We may yet descend from the Minister of Salem.
Highly Probable · Six of Nine Generations DocumentedReverend Samuel Parris (1653–1720) — born in London, schooled at Harvard, minister of Salem Village — is the man whose daughter Betty and niece Abigail first cried out under the affliction that ignited the witch trials of 1692. He died and was buried in Sudbury, Massachusetts, having lost his pulpit and the trust of his neighbors.
The line between him and us is documented through six generations: his daughter Mary, born at Concord in 1703; her marriage to Peter Bent at Sudbury in 1727; their granddaughter Mary Parris Russell, named for the Reverend's lost daughter, born at Athol, Massachusetts in 1763; and her marriage to a Maine settler. Three generations of Washington County, Maine vital records remain to be examined before this descent may be called Proved.
More on this and other passages of the family's story as the archive opens.