The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-25
THE FAMILY TREE
Who Were My Ancestors!"
Seems to Be the Question
Of the Hour.

/ In these days Of Colonial Danes.
Daughters of the American Revolution
and various other societies that are
branches OF forest OF family trees the
study OF genealogy is an interesting
one. who were were my ancestors %
seems 10 be the question OF the hour in
America
/ The Aryan colonlsts left their ancient
home in India and spread over the con-
( unent OF Europe in many diverxins
streams. Centuries passed. Some OF
the streams united in the northeastern
part 10 form a river. The brave Briton.
the fiery CeIt, the versatile GauI the
slow but steady Teuton. the daring pi-
ratiSai NOrseman-an these combined
10 make the mighty river OF whose on
Rowing waters We are proud 90 form
part What part7' do we ask. We
certainly cannot be molecules. beins
visible TO the eye and Of some trifiins
Importance in our own eyes. We must
at least be drops. large sized drops. %
course. in this Anglo-Saxon-N Norman
American genealogical river
or the same Aryan er Indo- European
stock were the polished Roman and the
e%@A ee%A AeAAA A'AANNtA- ~ VIC Inv " AEAAAAn
that the word Rriton means a PAINTED
man. a spotted. variegated man. Cae-
sar says the ancient Britons stained
themselves blue before entering battle.
also that 10 or Il OF them had their
wives in common. We know that hu-
man victims were offered on their al
tars.
Some 900 years later 81. Augustine
n ~ OF f-4
came on a foreign mission 20 carry
Christianity 60 the fair haired people
Of Angleland. II vas zoo years after the
time OF Alfred the Great. Saxon. before
surnames were known in England. and
they were not At all common until the
fourteenth century. So that ID Is rarely
possible 10 trace our family lives far
Their back than zoo or 500 years II is
interesting that some Welsh families
claim lineage among the noble Romans.
also that a few French families assume
TO trace their lines to Noah But with
out doubt the Oldest recorded family on
the globe Is that OF the mikado Of Japan.
whose lineage has been carefully kept
for Is centuries. Some OF our American
forbears thought IT undemocTatic 10
have an ancestor. Abraham Lincoln
sympathy with the sentiment. Il do not
know my grandfather's name. and
am more concerned 20 know what his
grandson IS going 20 make ~ himself
The study OF genealogy. pursued IN a
liberal spirit. brings all Americans into
sympathetic bonds. As we climb our
family tree we find 50 many other per-
sons ancestors sitting among the
boughs. Our Ebenezer. John or Daniel
who came over at an early period
proves 20 be also the ancestor 81 per-
haps 100 other living persons. In fact.
we find our genealogical tree a network
OF grating. wondrousiy interviewer BY
the intermarriages Of many generations
AS we grow Older We have 20 deal in
ourselves with the influences OF our
perhaps even more with thoHs
OF blood and breed. VIII II not profit rs
"a study them7 AS we learn the histories
OF those before Us at the life loom vii
IL not stimulate Us 20 do cur beat ia
weaving the web OF our lives2
Let Us take our ancestral heroes out
OF the obscure past and place them ia
household inches where their memory
can be kept green and their deeds fs-
hearsed 20 Ere our own hearts and the
hearts OF the children.