US 4,375,288 AGranted

American family tree game

OwnerJoseph G. Guertininventor

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Abstract

A family tree panel which includes a plurality of insertion slots arranged each at one end of a plurality of interconnected branches is used to generate a family tree representation. A plurality of insertable tokens containing facial indicia representative of a particular relative is used to insert within the slots within the family tree. A deck of special cards indicating historic cities, surnames, ancestors and various investigative methods, as well as inheritances, are used to determine the placement of the relative slots within the family tree. Both the paternal and maternal family history is portrayed within the particular slots on the family tree. A particular arrangement of the research cards and relative cards allows the players, in turn, to place the ancestral tokens on the tree. The first player to place all the tokens within the tree completes his or her family history and wins the game.

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A family tree game comprising:

A plurality of tokens corresponding to representative family members;
A family tree board containing a plurality of means for retaining said tokens;
Card means for determining the placement of said family tokens on said tree board, said card means containing indicia denoting relatives and research means;
Said retaining means comprising a plurality of slots arranged in an array of two columns, one column denoting maternal ancestry and the other column denoting paternal ancestry;
Said card means comprising a deck of cards wherein said relative cards are designated mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent, and wherein said research cards are entitled city vital records, church vital records, archive vital records, miscellaneous records, inheritance cards, and inconclusive research;
Said tokens comprising circular elements having a diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of said slots for insertion within said slots, and containing indicia representing said family members.

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