Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-09 | Page 5 | Mme. Mountford Talks on Oriental Genealogy

MME RO TAlKS I ION ON ORIENTAl GENEAlOGY Interests Large Audience With Family Traceries in the Palestine The Thc fascinating ms of or Arabian and other oriental genealogy were dwelt upon by b Mme Lydia Mountford Mount- Mount Mountford Mountford ford last night before two hundred members of the tho Utah Genealogical so society MO- MO clet clety gathered at the Bishops Bishop's building for or an especial lecture b by the widely traveled Messenger From Palestine New Now wonders of or genealogical traceries were revealed revealed b by Almu binie Mountford for the benefit of or orthe the he Utah devotees of this en entertaining entertaining entertaining en- en pastime and the l lecturer was heard with something of or awe ve when she told of or the ease easo and exactness with which the Bedouins o of the deserts and the patriarchs of or the tho cities on the coast of ot the Dead sea follow their thell ancestry Into nto the very tribes of or Abraham Illustrating her talk with rare curios brought Drought from Palestine for exhibition In n American museums Mme Mountford explained that the Arabs are arc peculiar for or their trea treasuring of or all things that have lavo to do with generations gone by She displayed a n. vestment estment wrought with silver threads upon a base of silk the very weave of or which has been forgotten forgot forgot- ten which she ghe declared had been made tor for some Arabian chief who was one of her ancestors years rears The vestment bore mystic emblems and a complete stor story of ot the the braver bravery of or the he chief chic who owned it first Is woven I Into the cloth around the thc shoulder A Aring Aring ring set with a stone resembling the ancient she slip II declared she had traced backward to an owner who lived In the tho tented cities of or a a. thousand years cars ago aso