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FOREWARD

After months of delay (procrastination), theorizing that we should not start production of this work until we had progressed further back into our "Family Tree", we have decided, "plunge ahead or it will never get finished". We can always write an update.

Also, readers may be able to provide information which will allow expansion of the current material. They might even provide clues to aid in our search for ancestral details not yet discovered. Often the seemingly insignificant clue is enough to break into new areas where information is abundant. Please give us your comments, suggestions and most of all, your scraps of information.

Old letters, obituaries, legal papers, newspaper clippings, family bibles or prayer books, diaries, guest books, pictures with names and places noted, local town or church histories in manuscript form — all these and many other items can be of immense value to the genealogist in putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

In return let us advise that we have additional information on many of the kindred family lines, which are not included in this book and which are available to you upon request.

Finally, it would be truly miraculous if the reader could not find spelling, punctuation and typographical errors plus informational inaccuracies and omissions. For these we apologize. We ask that you provide us with any additional or correctional information which you might catch in our book.

This is important as when the corrections have been made we intend to supply copies to various genelogical and historical societies so those who come after us will have some starting reference points.