Namastey -- Meet the Dusi family
You are seeing an important document: our family tree. It is the "tree" of persons belonging to a family, whose ancestors lived in a village called DUSI (see left side bottom corner of the map). This tiny village is in Tamilnadu, in India, on the banks of Palaar (River of Milk), not far (about 10 km) from the sacred town of Kanjeevaram (or Kanchipuram), and is about 70 km from Madras (or Chennai), in Tamilnadu State, South India. If you have a sufficiently detailed map, you will find Dusi at the following latitude/longitude: 12° 47' N and 79° 40' E The Dusi family was a traditional, orthodox, Hindu, Vaishnava family (see their holy emblem depicted above), and followers of the "Ahobila Matam". They belong to the vadagalai Iyengar sect of Brahmins.
This document is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother, Smt. Rukmini ammaal (wife of RAN1902MX) whose photographic memory, was a miracle which many of us have seen and admired. She died in Madras in May 2000, at the age of 92. Parthasarathy (Creator of this family tree)
The inevitable fine print The creator of this family tree claims no competence or formal qualifications in genealogy or history or in any related subject. This informal and unofficial document has been prepared on the basis of information gathered from various people and various sources. Most of the information has no proof or justification for its validity. It is possible that there are errors or gaps or other flaws in the information presented here. Use it with care and caution, and at your own risk and peril. Some hyperlinks in this document will work, only when you are viewing an on-line version of this document, and you are connected to the world-wide-web.

About this "tree"

Note : You can see an up-to-date version of this tree, on the web.

This tree covers only those persons who were "born in the family" (including adoption as children). In other words, details of those who belong to the family, by virtue of marriage, or any other lien, are not included. However, only the names of spouses are included ((in double brackets like this)).

A person (except, of course for the person at the "summit" of the tree) can be a member of this tree, if and only if, at least one of his/ her parents (father or mother) is a member of this tree.

It is therefore a tree containing information on parents, children, and siblings only. Because of this property, it is also a pedigree tree. This type of trees is very useful for sociological studies, for establishing blood relationships (consanguinity), and for deriving a host of other information.

This document covers, four generations above me (my father, my grandfather, my grandfather's father, and my grandfather's grandfather) and one generation below me (my son's generation). That means, it covers 4 + 1 + 1 = 6 six generations !

This tree project was started by me, in the year 1996, using the encyclopedic knowledge of Smt. Rukmini (wife of RAN1902MX). At that time, she was the oldest living person in this family. She was assisted by her second son : Shri. D. R. Varadarajan (the next senior most person in this family).
 
Incidentally, I, the creator of this tree, and grandson of Smt. Rukmini ammaal (wife of RAN1902MX), am the senior most in the next generation. In other words, the senior most persons of three successive generations, have put in their efforts to create this list.

Learn more about genealogy. It is a fascinating, complex, and very useful subject.

Explore this "tree"

You will notice that the DUSI Family tree is not presented like conventional genealogical trees.
We do not have a "picture" with names linked by arrows or lines. That would make the tree very clumsy and difficult to follow (like a bowl of spaghetti). Instead, this tree uses the elegance of hyperlinks , to let you literally jump from one branch of the tree to another, or climb up and down (like a monkey !), and yet maintain a neat list of entries.

With this set-up, it is also easy to add new entries in this tree and create new branches. The tree can be analysed easily using computer programmes.

For your convenience, the entries are arranged alphabetically by the name of the person concerned. But that does not really matter, as you will see in the next paragraph.

If you are seeing this tree on your computer: Open this file under any Internet browser. Wherever you see underlined text (hyperlink) , you can move the cursor of your computer to that point and click on it. You will automatically be taken to the new point selected by you. You can comeback (if you wish to), by using the "BACK" button usually provided in your browser, or you can choose another hyperlink and continue to explore. You can of course read the whole text "normally" (scrolling top-to-bottom) without using any hyperlinks.

If you are seeing a printed version of this tree : try to start from a known person, and join the names of children or parents with a pencil. Watch out ! The page may become very clumsy and cluttered up with pencil marks all over.

The entries in the following list are :

Code :

Each member of the tree is identified by a unique identifier code (this is a very important artefact for computerisation). This code consists of nine characters, composed of three letters (the first three letters of the person's own name), followed by a four digit number (Year of birth in the Gregorian calendar), followed by M or F (gender indicator), followed by a single letter (called tie breaker).
 
The tie breaker is an arbitrarily chosen letter, to distinguish between two persons for whom all the other fields match. For instance, my own code will look like : PAR1950MX ("Par"thasarathy, born "1950", "M"ale, "X"). Thus, every person will have a unique identifier code.
 
This is a very simple arrangement (although non-standard), for identifying each person uniquely. It has the advantage that the code allotted to members of this tree need not be modified whenever new members are added to this list. It makes possible, mechanisation of the analysis of this tree.

Level :

This number indicates the person's hierarchical level in the tree. The "summit" is taken to be level 0. As we go down, each successive generation is at the next higher level. Thus, the summit is level 0, the son of the summit is level 1, the son's son is level 2 etc.

• Note :
  This concept of "level" has a major potential for conflict. If a person of level n marries a person of level m ( m not equal n), how do we classify the level of a child born to this couple ? m+1 ? or n+1 ? And if m = n+1 or n = m+1 there will be a major problem. The child's level will be the same as that of one of its parents ! And, the problem can become worse if this child marries another person who is also in this same tree.
  There is no easy answer or non-controversial workaround for this conflict. We will assume the child's level to be k + 1 where k is the larger one of the two numbers m and n.

Name :

That part of the name which is specific to that individual, and is NOT inherited from the family. In other words, it is that part of one's name which is not borrowed from father's name, husband's name, surname, village name, family name etc.

Dates :

Date of birth, Date of death (xxxx if still alive). Dates are given in the following format: day.month.year (dd.mm.yyyy format)

Details :

A short sentence or some keywords, to identify this person e.g. profession, resident /native of (city or village name, country if outside India)

Spouse and children :

Name of spouse ((in double brackets, like this)), name of each child from this spouse and their corresponding code (in brackets), and so on for other spouses (if any) and their children (if any).

Child of :

The entry "Childof" will help you climb upwards, from a given person's code. It is possible to construct the conventional "tree" from this information (just print this document, and try using a pencil, to join the names).

"Don't know" is indicated by "?" symbols.
"Not applicable" is indicated by "x" characters.
 
At the summit of the tree is ?????? The details of him, his parents and his siblings are too fuzzy to be documented. He had two male children: SRI????MX and RAN????MX
RAN????MX is my (PAR1950MX) father's (SRI1924MX) father's (RAN1902MX) father's (LAK????MX) father ! I (PAR1950MX) am the father of Parishram (PAR1981MX).

So, the picture looks somewhat like this:

PAR1981MX (Level= 6) >son-of> PAR1950MX (Level= 5) >son-of> SRI1924MX (Level= 4) >son-of> RAN1902MX (Level= 3) >son-of> LAK????MX (Level= 2) >son-of> RAN????MX (Level= 1) >son-of> ???????MX (Level = 0. Summit of the tree).

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Start from the top of the tree (THE SUMMIT)
The author/creator of this tree.
Youngest member of this tree
Oldest living member in this tree

 
ANA2001FX
Level : 6
Name : Ananya
Dates : 05.01.2001 xxxx
Details :
Child of : Jayashree (JAY1975FX)
Spouse and children : xxxx .
 
BAD1990MX
Level : 6
Name : Badri-Aravind
Dates : 16.09.1990, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Sridharan
Spouse and children : .
 
BAL1989MX
Level : 6
Name : Balaji
Dates : ??.??.1989, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Lakhminarayanan (LAK1950MX)
Spouse and children : xxxxx
 
DIS1997FX
Level : 6
Name : Disha-Tejaswini
Dates : 05.11.1997, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Sridharan
Spouse and children : .
 
GEE1961FX
Level : 5
Name : Geetha
Dates : 12.8.1961, xxxx.
Details : House wife, USA.
Child of : Rajagopalan (RAJ1934MX)
Spouse and children : ((Kannan)),
Indu (IND1986FX), Preethi (PRE1991FX).
 
IND1986FX
Level : 6
Name : Indu
Dates : 27.5.1986, xxxx,
Details : xxxx, xxxx
Child of : Geetha (GEE1961FX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx))
 
JAN1994FX
Level : 6
Name : Janardhani
Dates : 10.01.1994, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Varadarajan (VAR1954MX)
Spouse and children : xxxxx
 
JAY1975FX
Level : 5
Name : Jayashree
Dates : 13.6.1975, xxxx.
Details : Housewife, Madras (Chennai).
Child of : Raghavan (RAG1940MX)
Spouse and children : ((Renganathan)), Ananya (ANA2001FX).
 
JAI1986MX
Level : 6
Name : Jaidev
Dates : 27.1.1986, xxxx.
Details : xxxx, xxxx,
Child of : Vasudevan (VAS1952MX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx)).
 
JAY1958FX
Level : 5
Name : Jayalakshmi
Dates : ??.??.1958, xxxxx
Details :
Child of : Padmasani(PAD9999FX)
Spouse and children : ((Srinivasan)),
Srinidhi (SRI1991MX)
 
JAY1989MX
Level : 6
Name : Jayaram
Dates : 13.6.1989, xxxx
Details : xxxx, xxxx.
Child of : Vasudevan (VAS1952MX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx)).
 
KAR1991MX
Level : 6
Name : Karthik
Dates : 22.11.1991, xxxx.
Details : xxxx, xxxx.
Child of : Narasimhan (NAR1962MX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx)).
 
KRI1954MX
Level : 5
Name : Krishnan
Dates : 8.11.1954, xxxx,
Details : Physician, nephrologist, Secunderabad.
Child of : Srinivasan (SRI1924MX)
Spouse and children : ((Girija)), Pooja (POO1992FX).
 
LAK????MX
Level : 2
Name : Lakshmi-Narasimhan,
Dates : ??.??.????, ??.??.????
Details : Landlord, Dusi,
Child of : Ranganathan RAN????MX
Spouse and children : ((Maragathavalli)), Rangachari (RAN1902MX),
Lakshmi-Ammal (LAK9999FX).
 
LAK????FX
(Married another member of this same tree)
Level : 3
Name : Lakshmi-Ammal
Dates : ??.??.????, ??.??.????.
Details : House wife, Kodanagar
Child of : Lakshmi Narasimhan (LAK????MX)
Spouse and children : ((Singrachari alias Annakutti)) (ANN????MX)
Padmasani (PAD????FX),
Ponnammal (PON????FX)
 
LAK1950MX
Level : 5
Name : Lakshminarayanan (alias Pitchumani)
Dates : ??.??.1950, xxxxxx
Details :
Child of : Padmasani (PAD????FX)
Spouse and children : ((Radha)),
Somiyalakshmi (SOW1983FX), Balaji (BAL1989MX)
 
MAL1957FX
Level : 5
Name : Mallika
Dates : 19.10.1957, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Ponnammal (PON1933FX)
Spouse and children : ((Ravindran)),
Nithya(NIT1980FX), Srivatsan(SRI1984MX).
 
MUR1965MX
Level : 5
Name : Muralidharan
Dates : 20.07.1965 , xxxxx
Details :
Child of : Padmasani (PAD????FX)
Spouse and children : ((Priyalakshmi alias "Shanti Muralidharan")) Sriraman (SRI2002MX)
 
NAR1962MX
Level : 5
Name : Narasimhan
Dates : 31.7.1962, xxxx
Details : Mechanical Engineer, Pune.
Child of : Rajagopalan (RAJ1934MX)
Spouse and children : ((Chithra)),Karthik (KAR1991MX).
 
NIT1980FX
Level : 6
Name : Nitya
Dates : 04.11.1980
Details :
Child of : Mallika
Spouse and children : xxxxxx
 
PAD????FX
Level : 4
Name : Padmasani
Dates : ??.??.????, ??.??.????
Details : House wife, Mylapore, Madras?????.
Child of : Lakshmi Ammal (LAK????FX) and Singrachari alias Annakutti (SIN????MX)
Spouse and children : ((Sethuraman)),
Lakshminarayanan (alias Pitchumani) (LAK1950MX), Varadarajan (VAR1954MX), Soundararajan (SOU1956MX), Jayalakshmi (JAY1958FX) , Muralidharan (MUR1965MX)
 

PAR1950MX
(PAR1950MX is the creator of this family tree)
Know more about PAR1950MX
Some pictures are here.
Level : 5
Name : Parthasarathy,
Dates : 2.11.1950, xxxx
Details : Electrical Engineer, automation and control specialist, Secunderabad.
Child of : Srinivasan (SRI1924MX)
Spouse and children : ((Prema)),
Parishram (PAR1981MX), Prayathna (PRA1984FX).
 
PAR1981MX
Level : 6
Name : Parishram
Dates : 29.7.1981, xxxx.
Details : xxxx, Secunderabad.
Child of : Parthasarathy (PAR1950MX)
Spouse and children : ((Syamala Rani)).
 
PAT????FX
Level : 2
Name : Pattammal
Dates : ?????, ?????
Details : ?????
Child of : Srinivasachari (SRI9999MX)
Spouse and children : ((????))
Sampath (SAM9999MX), Singrachari alias Annakutti (SIN9999MX)
 
PON????FX
Level : 4
Name : Ponnammal
Dates : 05.08.1933, ??.??.????.
Details : House wife,?????
Child of : Lakshmi Ammal (LAK????FX) and Singrachari alias Annakutti (SIN????MX)
Spouse and children : ((Ramanujan)), Rajamani, Rajagopalan, Ranganathan, Sridharan, Mallika, Ramani
 
POO1992FX
Level : 6
Name : Pooja
Details : xxxx, Secunderabad.
Dates : 11.8.1992, xxxx
Child of : Krishnan (KRI1954MX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx)).
 
PRA1984FX
Level : 6
Name : Prayathna
Dates : 30.7.1984, xxxx
Details : xxxx, Secunderabad.
Child of : Parthasarathy (PAR1950MX)
Spouse and children : ((Stephan Kowitz)).
 
PRE1991FX
Level : 6
Name : Preethi
Dates : 14.11.1991, xxxx
Details : xxxx, xxxx
Child of : Geetha(GEE1961FX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx)).
 
RAG1940MX
Level : 4
Name : Raghavan
Dates : 28.7.1940, xxxx.
Details : Civil Engineer, Arni.
Child of : Rangachari (RAN1902MX)
Spouse and children : ((Malathi)),
Vijayalakshmi (VIJ1969FX), Jayashree(JAY1975FX), Vasupratha (VAS1977FX).
 
RAJ1934MX
Level : 4
Name : Rajagopalan
Dates : 12.12.1934, 20.11.2002.
Details : Electrical Engineer, Madras.
Child of : Rangachari (RAN1902MX)
Spouse and children : ((Kanakavalli)),
Geetha (GEE1961FX), Narasimhan (NAR1962MX), Sampath Kumar (SAM1965MX).
 
RAM1962FX
Level : 5
Name : Ramani
Dates : 30.06.1962, xxxx
Details : Housewife, Kattankalathur.
Child of : Ponnammal (PON1933FX)
Spouse and children : ((Varadarajan)),
Venkat(VEN1987MX), Ramya(RAM1990FX).
 
RAM1990MX
Level : 6
Name : Ramya
Dates : 11.07.1990, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Ramani
Spouse and children : .
 
RAN????MX
Level : 1
Name : Ranganathan
Dates : ??.??.????, ??.??.????
Details : ????, ????.
Child of : ????? (summit)
Spouse and children : ((Lakshmi)), Lakshmi-Narasimhan (LAK????MX), ????.
 
RAN1902MX
Level : 3
Name : Rangachari
Dates : 6.1.1902, 11.7.1976
Details : School teacher, Vandavasi
Child of : Lakshmi-Narasimhan (LAK????MX).
Spouse and children : ((Rukmini)),
Srinivasan (SRI1924MX), Varadarajan (VAR1932MX), Rajagopalan (RAJ1934MX),
Raghavan (RAG1940MX).
 
SAM1965MX
Level : 6
Name : Sampath-Kumar
Dates : 27.3.1965, 23.12.1977
Details : xxxx, Kancheepuram
Child of : Rajagopalan (RAJ1934MX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx))
   
SHR2005FX
Level : 6
Name : Shreya
(Youngest living member of this tree)
Dates : 19-05-2005
Details : xxxx
Child of : Vasupratha (VAS1977FX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx))
 
SIN????MX
(Married another member of this same tree)
Level : 3
Name : Singrachari (alias Annakutti)
Dates : ????, ????
Details : ????
Child of : Pattammal (PAT????FX)
Spouse and children : ((Lakshmi-ammaal)) (LAK????FX)
Padmasani (PAD????FX),
Ponnammal (PON????FX).
 
SOU1956MX
Level : 5
Name : Soundararajan
Dates : ??.??.1956, xxxxx
Details :
Child of : Padmasani (PAD9999FX)
Spouse and children : ((Divya)),
Supraja (SUP1998FX)
 
SOW1983FX
Level : 6
Name : Sowmiyalakshmi
Dates : ??.??.1983, xxxxx
Details :
Child of : Lakhminarayanan (LAK1950MX)
Spouse and children : xxxxx
 
SRI????MX
Level : 1
Name : Srinivasachari
Dates : ????, ????
Details : ????????????
Child of : ????? (summit)
Spouse and children : ((????))
Seshadri, Narasimhan, Pattammal (PAT????FX), Echammal, Thangammal

I need information on the members belonging to this branch of the tree i.e. Srinivasachari, Seshadri, Narasimhan, Pattammal, Echammal, Thangammal, and all their descendants.
Since this person viz. Srinivasachari (SRI????MX) is just below the summit, there must be a HUGE number of members in this branch of this tree.
Please contact me, if you have any information or leads. Thank you.

For your convenience, I have made a draft version of a separate sub-tree for this branch.
 
SRI1924MX
Level : 4
Name : Srinivasan
Dates : 2.9.1924, 5.9.1985
Details : Engineer, Telephones, Vellore
Child of : Rangachari (RAN1902MX)
Spouse and children : ((Pankajam))
Spouse and children : ((Champa)),
Parthasarathy (PAR1950MX), Vasudevan (VAS1952MX), Krishnan (KRI1954MX).
 
SRI1955MX
Level : 5
Name : Sridharan
Dates : 03.05.1955, xxxx
Details : Iran, teacher
Child of : Ponnammal (PON1933FX)
Spouse and children : ((Jayanti)),
Badri-Aravind (BAD1990MX), Disha-Tejaswini (DIS1997FX).
 
SRI1984MX
Level : 6
Name : Srivatsan
Dates : 08.11.1984, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Mallika (MAL1957FX)
Spouse and children : xxxxxx .
 
SRI1990MX
Level : 6
Name : Srivishnurajan
Dates : 07.07.1990, xxxxx
Details :
Child of : Varadarajan (VAR1954MX)
Spouse and children : xxxxxxx
 
SRI1991MX
Level : 6
Name : Srinidhi
Dates : ??.??.1991, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Jayalakshmi (JAY1958FX)
Spouse and children : xxxxx

 
SRI2002MX
Level : 6
Name : Sriraman
Dates : 01.12.02 , xxxx
Details :
Child of : Muralidharan (MUR1965MX)
Spouse and children : xxxxxx .
 
SUP1998FX
Level : 6
Name : Supraja
Dates : ??.??.1998, xxxxx
Details : xxxxxx
Child of : Soundararajan (SOU1956MX)
Spouse and children : xxxxxx
 
SWE1991FX
Level : 6
Name : Swetha
Dates : 19.3.91, xxxx
Details : xxxx, Madras
Child of : Vijayalakshmi (VIJ1969FX)
Spouse and children : ((xxxx))
  
VAR1932MX
(Oldest living member of this tree)
Level : 4
Name : Varadarajan
Dates : 27.6.1932, xxxx
Details : Post Master, Cuddalore
Child of : Rangachari (RAN1902MX)
Spouse and children : ((Hemambujam))
 
VAR1954MX
Level : 5
Name : Varadarajan
Dates : 14.09.1954, xxxxx
Details :
Child of : Padmasani (PAD9999FX)
Spouse and children : ((Vidya)),
Srivishnurajan (SRI1990MX), Janardhani (JAN1994FX)
 
VAS1952MX
Level : 5
Name : Vasudevan
Dates : 25.3.1952, xxxx
Details : Chemical Engineer, Australia
Child of : Srinivasan(SRI1924MX)
Spouse and children : ((Sujatha)),
Jaidev (JAI1986MX), Jayram (JAY1989MX)
 
VAS1977FX
Level : 5
Name : Vasupratha
Dates : 18.10.1977, xxxx
Details : xxxx, Vellore
Child of : Raghavan (RAG1940MX)
Spouse and children : ((Srikanth)) Shreya
 
VEN1987MX
Level : 6
Name : Venkat
Dates : 07.02.1987, xxxx
Details :
Child of : Ramani
Spouse and children : .
 
VIJ1969FX
Level : 5
Name : Vijayalakshmi
Dates : 18.4.1969, xxxx
Details : Housewife, Madras
Child of : Raghavan (RAG1940MX)
Spouse and children : ((Balaji)), Swetha (SWE1991FX)
 
SUMMIT
(Summit of the tree)
Level : 0
Name : ?????????
Dates : ?????????
Details : ??????????
Child of : ???????????
Spouse and children : ((????????)),
Srinivasachari, Ranganathan.

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Are you seeing an off-line (maybe outdated) version of this tree ? Please see the up-to-date version of this tree, on the web, at: http://algolog.tripod.com/dusi.htm.
Version and date of last update are given in the Administrivia section.

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For more research on Genealogy, consanguinity, pedigree

1. This is a good starting point for understanding the basic principles.
2. Here is a formal and extensive toolbox and source of links.
3. The subject of numbering in genealogical trees is very very complex. Several methods exist, each has its weaknesses and strengths.

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Feedback, Updates

If you found this document useful and interesting, you can send me your appreciation in any form (e.g. a cheque, a box of chocolates, a nice crystal vase, a diamond studded jewel, a picture postcard .....). If you did not find this document of any worth, you can still send any of the above gifts, in addition to your honest and constructive criticism.

It is very important to keep this document up-to-date and correct. I need YOUR help and assistance for doing this.
If you find any errors, or have information missing in this document, or if you can make this document more complete, PLEASE let me know.
Please send your remarks, suggestions and information for updating this document, to :  

 

Paper mail, or personal visit :
S. Parthasarathy
78 Sancharpuri Colony
Bowenpally P.O.
Secunderabad 500 011
India
(Use this Location map and driving instructions, to visit me )
 
Phone (inland callers) : (040) 2775 1650
Phone (overseas callers) : + 91 - 40 - 2775 1650

e mail : drpartha@gmail.com

Please inform all people you may know, and who belong to this tree.
Please ask them to get in touch with me at the above address.
Please also give them the URL of the web site where an on-line and up-to-date version of this tree can be found: http://algolog.tripod.com/dusi.htm

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