Kingship Chart Examples

¹To understand the Kinship system, for assignment 14 we were to interview and create a Kinship chart for someone that is not related to us. I have chosen and asked someone whom I have known for many years, Mariah, M.H for short, to be my subject. For the reason that she has a multi-cultural background, she is half Caucasian-American and half Filipino, as well as I knew she has a fairly large family. I believe it would be interesting to see if there are any differences from her father's side of the family and her mother's side of the family.

²Though the process of creating the Kingship chart, I thought this activity has turned out to be more complicated than either of us have initialed thought it would be. We both laughed when I had to
It was actually a sad story yet intriguing, one of her aunt (B.C) married her first husband (name unknown), and together they have two children (R.S and W.S), after they were divorced, she (B.C) remarried again with N.S, although they never had children tougher, but they did adopted a daughter (A.S), when this aunt (B.C) passed away, the husband (N.S) was slowly slipping into depression, he ended up remarried with his wife's sister (I.S), who was previously married and had two children (J.N and O.N). Interestingly The husband (N.S) has no blood relationships with any of his children, but he has adopted all other children from his marriages.

While creating the chart, I have a pleasant time learning about her family, it was an interesting experience because her mother has eight siblings, and most of the siblings have married, remarried, and many have children.

The only challenge I encountered was running out of space to write, and I had to use different color or types of lines to distinguish the half-siblings and adopted siblings, because this Kinship system does not have any symbol to represent the