| Show ItI III I r L J All for fOI this meat should bl b addressed to the score tary of the tho Eider Joseph F FSmith FSmith Smith Jr JI care of historians office Salt Sail Lake CIt City Utah I We TO left our last wc week k In 1 ii wIth a cop copy ot of the Am Index In their theil hands Wo 0 read tue tho preface to that pok also last wei and thus learned why rity It was US published and It its value alue to us IS Now let us In quilO further If IC the seeker h t hunt for fOI an American he 10 lU III turn In his Ame Index to name namo suppose It Howe Is I quito quite an extensive American family Ho will turn to the Hs anti there lund Howe F Following th ti annie numo will willbe be Il a number of y J I 40 I Iv v SG SC vi 1 vII 15 38 x O I xII 58 lW England Hist and Gen nelt Itc 1 Iv Savages Genealogical Dictionary 11 to and othel Now what do theo numbers names mean asks the puzzled FIrst let the tho seeker put down In his small mall paper tab lab nfl aU that Is 1 above aboe Then he Is through with thi Index and has his worle before Taka the Index back to the ns as It Is extremely thoughtless not t tsa 10 say sa to keep n ii book for hour lying beside you rou when It Is liS as much as Is nn an In cx b by all who ensue COllO Let us begin our anI research ho he reference to SJ agos Jie Dle This book was one 0 of the earliest aids to Am American g LI LIever ever prepared It Is no now with some suspicion as the author In some Instances took liberties with will facts that Is he assumed relationships from circumstantial But there Is a mass or of valuable Information for nil all American early families In these thee four Savage Salle undertook to publish an outline sketch of oC the early New Kew En England land tam lies with sonic others ot of early records and ho he did It extremely well welI He gives much space to the tiso it Puritan and Pilgrim families and each book Is written In alphabetical or 1 del so does docs not need an index For In Instance instance stance wo we would find the name of lC Howo In volume II just where H come naturally In the tue alphabet Sa Say age gives the names of several Howe How emigrants and adds much tion regarding them all Ho He also aiso Indi Indicates Indicates cates plaint plainly just where ho he Mr Su age secured his own Information and this enables the tho seeker fleeker to search the origInal sources In case he Is i In any doubt or needs further lIght The seeker must mulct op open n his hia notebook and first dating It and ana adding his own namo and address with tho ho name or of ortho the tho hell heir In whose the work Is done he now sets to work worle in inthe Inthe the proper form fonn the tho Information he finds In Savage e That Is he Is not to record the Information Iso he gets et exactly as he finds 1 it but PItI It in III the form orm already taught him in former articles articie In thIs department H lie should write the name of the book Sav Savages ages Geneal GenealOgIcal Dictionary across neross the top of the page and then set down the tho first man and his wife writing them then proceed to record the children gIven In th tha book Novel Never add names name indiscriminately for rOI that brings suds such confusion that no one no matter how an ever flail order or arrange the names nameR In order later The ver very first entry as welI ns as the last In your penciled notebook must be set down In Its proper order with oath each date and fact set In exact position just JuM ns has been explained j hero time ind agaIn After the seeker has hus copied all the In Information formation or the names given In Say Sav age numbering them nil aU properly Jle ho wilt next turn to the books book given In bla references taken from rom the Index He find that each book ha has been n indIcated by at least one ne number ma mabe may maybe be b by two That Is the reference o 0 Savage lad II 11 after It and that meant yol vol 2 poses pages to HG inclusive sive After Atter all the books named In these I have havo been beon carefully copied thun the seeker should cake up tiNS thise which or may not contaIn sefor not Indexed in III the tho general n a dex to examine them each cad In It Its I and or el For instance sue lJ e ethl the 63 VOlUmes of the New Nev EngI suid HistorIcal and Register mil may contain coptain sonny many references net InclUded In III this general American in dex 1 iii 0 the seeker takes Vol Voi I of this magazine and goes Joes to work vork ITo Ho should talC take each In turn turi until oath ho he has exhausted the tho whole nuns num b her l nd here naIn follows a general Instruction Every book that has bc n properly edited and prepared has a lull full index at the tho of oC the book seine have hae an Index of places ns as well as of names name It Is well weli to If there are aro two or mOlO moie volumes s bound bount up In the nm book for fol Ir if that Is the cast case there ther UN sirs UNapt apt to be ns man many find and ea h hudd udd 1 to the end of It Its own So the tue seeker ceker should be In the search to for his hiM Index or Indexes risen get the tab or of paper 1 pc I and on in that write out all the numbers or orpa pa fI referred t to In the Index Tiui Ihl saves saes turning back to the back or of the I book continually and the can an be crossed out as the pages are exam Ined thus lime preventing or r leaving sonic numb numbers 15 out oust Cop Copy Int inte your note book of nil the rIl of the book you searchIng and the volume Ir If It b he snore than i book then set et down he you ym thus secured In the order ordel iii former formel articles The next Set of books o search a I is the 1 I N York a l nod I 1 Ical This Is likewIse a RrIe of Sand and must be s searched ex ns as you u did the Bo Boston ton which we have just con ning or of ouise e with volume I Thou you ou will lul find mn ninny volum volumes s of vital statistics county and town historIes and then viii come the tho family geneal ogles ot of which supply man many beside the tue one In the tho title Bitt must bo ont one thing considered alwa always s that Is have not other othel families already all ulI the names out ot of family histories now univ found in n our genealogical library cnn can be In two list write tu to all thu tho temples temple sucking for Cor this Information and send Bend a notice to this lisle department asking It If any connected with your own line ha have done the tho work We Ve te arc pr ss IS rapidly as pos sin an Index shall contain the family lines already done In the temples Such then Is ii tue order of at proc procedure dure for an any In thuc tho American sines q e shall next take up sup the seeker and ancl give him definIte ls to In our library I |
