charles davenport who was the director was focused like his hero francis galton on family traits. they look for families they called degenerate. so families where there was alcoholism families where there were so called feeble minded families where there was illegitimacy off families where there was prostitution and what have you and then they would do interviews and ask about the parents and the grandparents but this was a pedigree chart of the famous jukes family and it got so large that they decided to make it in a circle because they could contain more people this way. than what was. it was made to show that some nine hundred individuals who ended up in the prisons of new york were descended from the same woman margaret the mother of criminals. carry loughlin had projected that we needed to be fifteen million american sterilized. in one nine hundred fourteen aloft and was asked to write a model. and harry loughlin said this law should use to sterilize ten perhaps esteemed million people represent the bottom tenth of the american population. when the newspapers picked up the he