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Solution to Family Ties

Author: Harvey Jones

Solvers are presented with a series of family trees. The first step is to identify one or more of the trees from the shape alone. Also of note is that some nodes are colored, and trees can share colored nodes. Any identically-colored nodes share a first name.

Trees are alphabetized by first name of the top-left node.

The trees:
1. Abraham and descendants from the Old Testament, first node Abraham
2. Henry VIII (and wives), first node Catherine
3. The Simpsons, first node Clancy
4. The Frys/Farnsworths (Futurama), first node Mildred
5. The Bluths (Arrested Development), first node Oscar
6. The Windsors, first node Philip
7. The Kennedys, first node Rose

The colors:
ABRAHAM/Red
PETER/Orange
PHILLIP/Yellow
CATHERINE/Green
EDWARD/Blue
ELIZABETH/Purple
ANNE/Pink
JOSEPH/Brown
GEORGE/Gray
YANCY/Black
JACQUELINE/Bright Yellow
HENRY/Dark Purple

Finally, note that many nodes have indices. Alphabetizing labeled nodes by first name and indexing into the first names yields SURMELIS TLC SHOW, which is CLEAN SWEEP, the answer.

The full trees, colored nodes in CAPS, indexed letters in (parens):

1 (row 1) ABRAHAM / Sara(h)
1 (row 2) Isaac / Rebekah
1 (row 3) 3 wives / Jacob / Ra(c)hel
1 (row 4) 10 sons / JOSEPH / Benjamin

2 (row 1) CATHERINE of Aragon / ANNE Boleyn / HENRY VIII / 
          Jane Seymour / ANNE of Cleves / CATHERINE Howard / CATHERINE Parr
2 (row 2) Mary / ELIZABETH / EDWA(R)D

3 (row 1) Clancy / JACQUE(L)INE / ABRAHAM / Mona
3 (row 2) Patty / Selma / Marge / Ho(m)er
3 (row 3) Bart / Li(s)a / Maggie

4 (row 1) Mildred / (link to PHILIP from row 3)
4 (row 2) [Mrs. Fry] / YANCY
4 (row 3) YANCY Jr. / PHILIP
4 (row 4) [unknown father] / "Mom" / Hub(e)rt
4 (row 5) Igner / Walt / Larry / C(u)bert

5 (row 1) Oscar / Lucille / GEORGE
5 (row 2) Byron "Buster" / Eve Holt! / GEORGE Oscar "GOB" Bluth / 
          T(o)bias Fünke / L(i)ndsay Fünke / Michael / Tracy / Annyong
5 (row 3) Steve Holt! / Maeby / GEORGE Michael

6 (row 1) PHI(L)IP / ELIZABETH
6 (row 2) Diana / Charle(s) / ANNE / Andrew / EDWARD
6 (row 3) CATHERINE / (W)illiam / HENRY [Harry]
6 (row 4) GEORGE

7 (row 1) RO(S)E / JOSEPH
7 (row 2) JOSEPH / JACQUELINE / John / ROSE / Kathleen / 
          Eunice / Pa(t)ricia / Robert / Jean / EDWARD