| Show THE FAMILY TREE Who Were My Ancestors Seems to Be the Question of the Hour III these day of Colonial Damps Daughters of the American Revolution and various other societies that are branches of a forest of family trees the study of genealogy 11 an Interesting one Who were Were my ancestors seems lo be the question of the hour In America The Aryan colonists left their anclpnt homo In Indln and spread over the Con tlncnt of Europe In many diverging streams Centuries passed Som cf the streams united In the northeastern Pat t to form a river The brae Briton he fiery Celt the veisatlle Gaul the slow but steady Toulon the dating 11 I rutlcal Norsemanall these combined 10 make the might river of whose on lowing waters we arc proud to form n 1 part Vhat part do ask wo acc a-cc cannot be molecules being visible to the ep and of some trilling Importance In our own eyes We must at least be drops large rlzed drops at course In this ngloSaxonNormon Amrkion genealogical river Of the same Aryan or IndoCuropnn slack were the polished taman and the barbarian Briton Do we like to icaUzg that the wold Briton means a painted man a spotted arlegated man Cre mar BIOS the ancient Britons stained themselves blue before entering battle also that 10 or 12 of them had their wives In common We know Hint human hu-man victim iere offered on their altars 1 al-tars Some COO years later St Augustine and 40 otheiB bless their mcmorui cam on a foreign mission to carry Christianity to the fair haired people of Auckland It was 200 jenls iftci the time of Alfred the Great Saxon before surnames were known In England and they were not at all common until IV t fourteenth century So that III Is rarely possible to trace our family Uses farther far-ther buck than 700 or 800 years It U I Interesting that some Welsh farullea claim lineage among the noble Romans also that a few Trench families BJUTI to trace their lines to Noah But win out doubt the oldest recorded family ro the globe Is that of the mikado of Japan whose lineage has been carefully kept for 25 centuries Some of our American forbears thought It undemocratic to hove nn ancestor Abraham Lincoln said and I am sure Ave should all be In sympathy with the sentiment I do not know my grandfathers Mme and I am more concerned to know 1khat his grandson In I going to make at himself The study of genealogy pursued In a liberal spirit brings all Americans Into sympathetic bonds As we climb our family tre ve find so many other per son anctors silting among the boughs Our Ebenezer John or Daniel who come over at an early period proves to be also the ancestor of perhaps per-haps 2000 other living persons Intact we find our genealogical tree a network of grafting wondrously Interwoven by the Intermarriages of many generation As we grow older we have to deal In ourselves with the Influences of our education Perhaps en mora Ith those of blood and breed Will It not profit us to study them 7 As w e learn the histories of those before us at the life loom will It not stimulate us to do our belt In weaving the web of our lives Let us take our ancestral heroes out of the obscure past and place them In household niches where their memory can be kept green and their deeds rehearsed re-hearsed to fire our own hearts and the hearts of the children n |
