When I got into my late teens as a university student, I slowly came to realize that the reason for my father having such an attitude was because his parents were not married. My mother later told me that my father even feared she would leave him after she discovered that his parents weren't married. No one in the family would discuss our ancestry at first, so it was an up hill battle to discover every little bit of information I could.
Copies are still available.
It makes a handsome display on the coffee table or an addition to the bookshelf of home or library. Family sheets are complete with dates and places of individual's birth, marriage and death. They're in alphabetic order by first name. Individuals of other names follow in alphabetic arrangement by last name, first and middle. Following the family sheets, seven Appendices fill the next 28 pages of the book which ends with the index.