Show HOW TO FIEJGRANDPAPA I SEARCH SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IN A METHODICAL MANNER Ancestors Are In Fashion and Here Are Accurate Directions For Getting Get-ting Up a Genealogical Tree it is the fashion nowadays to have ancestors And a very good fashion it is too for it leads to much study and research If you live near a library stoclred with genealogical vet urnes you will find plent of work for these summer days in tracing out your line of descent Fortify yourself first with American Ancestry which is found in many volumes and alphabetically arranged so that the name you seek is easily foundIf found at all You will doubtless doubt-less find important data here which you will supplement with further items gleaned from Farmers General Beg istera book on the same lines as American Ancestry Savages Die tionar is the third authority you con suit and in one if not all you are cet l tng r euc tam to find something i of whiclt you are In search If you have a notion that you are the daughter of a hundred earls turn to Americans of Royal Descent or Collins Peerage or Burkes Peerage Peer-age or Landed Gentry IfL drop of Irish or Scotch blood be In your veins to OHarts Irish PedigreeS Clydes Irish Settlers or Douglas Baronage of Scotland If your ancestors rolled over the deep in the Mayfloerits passenger list used to number about I 101 but surely a million more or less must have arrived in that historic boat consult History of Plymouth from Its First Settlers in 1620 to the Present Time by James Thatcher Other works to consult If you trace back to the Mayflower are Trumbulls I History of Connecticut Early Puritan Puri-tan Settlers New Haven Church I Records ourts Relations or a Journal of the Plantation of Plymouth Ply-mouth and founders of the New Plymouth hy Rev Joseph Hunter I Matthews History of Vermont Stearns History of Ashburrham Mass Hinmans Early Settlers of Connecticut Salns retherfield Conn are other authorities to look I Into shen in qtiest of New England l ancestry I Meades Old Fmnllles of Virginia and Virginia cousins by G B Goooe I must be consulted for Virginia ancestry ances-try If there are any historical societies in the neighborhood Important information Infor-mation may often be attained one may even come across old family portraits por-traits or relics or copies of gravestone inscriptions tucked away In some obscure ob-scure corner During your quest never lose sIght of the fact that genealogical books are not infallible Jefferson 01 some equally great man once remarked that everyone should have education enough to know hew to spell his name in more I than one way Iourt and Morton Crane Cram Crayne Treat Trat Trott and similar examples confront you at even turn But for ali your toll and turmoil you will certainly feel quite repaid when you have a complete family chart H you dont care to have it displayed upon the wall keep It rolled and if you have chosen map paper It will not crease or crack A circular chart Is not nearly as good as a halfcircular one with the fathers line on the left hand half of the paper and the mothers on the other Then the whole situation can be taken In at a glance Only dates of birth marriage and death are written writ-ten on the chart ocr against each name and every space should be num beredthat is if you have any addi tlonal memoranda For example somebody Is John Smith and his number Is 24 If you have interesting in-teresting data relative to the gentle manhis coatofarms emblazoned his autograph a copy of his wm a photograph photo-graph of him or the house in which he lived or the memorial bridge his townsmen towns-men erected to his memory put all these in an envelope which bears the sgme name and number It is easy then to lay hands in the dark or In case of fire upon any facts connected with John Smith It is often possible to procure copies of wills for a small consideration or copies of deeds of property sold if they are desired From 2 to 4 Is the usual charge for procuring a copy of an uncertified un-certified will DIANA CROSSWAYS |