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Visualizing genealogy is a notorious problem. The Nabokov Family Web comprises 409 individuals from nineteen generations and is a ramified structure so large that with all the information it contains it could not be visualized graphically even on a very wide piece of paper, let alone on a monitor screen. So the user will have to "walk through" its 208 linked cards (i.e., HTML pages) of "kernel families," either starting with Vladimir Nabokov on the Home Card or with any of the names in the two indexes and then clicking her or his way up, down or sideways from card to card. To facilitate a larger overview, six family trees have been generated from the database of names and life dates, each showing different (but partly overlapping) sections of the complete tree which is unfeasible. Though it has not even half of all the names, the biggest of these still has a full canvas size of 5 × 2 metres and has to be scaled down to 6,25% to fit into a computer screen. To make it at all legible, it has to be enlarged to 25%, meaning that at most a quarter of it it visible at a time.
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» The main source for this genealogical Web has been, of course, Les Nabokov: Essai généalogique by Jacques Ferrand. His invaluable study has been supplemented by various other sources, some of them rather recondite. Some of the recent additions come from Internet genealogies. Whenever there was conflicting information, the source that had the most detail or authority or whose author presumably had had access to family papers was preferred. Some further information, mostly of a recent kind, has come from members of the family whom I wish to thank for their contributions. All relatives mentioned in Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1967) are included and referenced (SM 54 = Speak, Memory page 54).
Corrections and additions are welcome.
Created 15
July 2000 by means of Sierra EasyTree
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