He made a couple of copies but said the original was quite fragile. Once this book came into my hands I became obsessed with filling in all the blanks, with tracking down descendants and sorting out intermarriages. I was especially intrigued when I connected the Nina May Rivers who had married my mother's Great Uncle Ivan Cody with her father William Luke Rivers. My first cousin four times removed on my fathers side married my Great great uncle on my mother's side. As you will see all the pages are type written .
Many entries give the family's post office.
Almost all entries end with a summary of the person's relationship back to Mathew Rivers. He almost always dated the entries. Often he entered male family members by their initials only, just as he signed his name J. H. Rivers. The book itself is a work in progress. There are sections that repeat or are later versions of the information.