The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-30
HOW TO FIND A GRANDPAPA
SEARCH SHOULD BE CONDUCTED
IN A METHoDIcAL MANNER.
Ancestors Are In Fashion and Here
Are Accurate Directions For Get
ting Up Genealogical Tree.

| 1t is the fashion nowadays to have
ancestors. And a very good fashion
it is, too, for it leads to much study
library stocked with genealogical vol
umes you will find plenty of work for
these summer days in tracing out your
line of descent.
| Fortify yourself first with American
Ancestry" which is found in many
! volumes, and alphabetically arranged,
so that the name you seek is easily
found-if found at all. You will doubt
less find important data here, which
! you will supplement with further items
CLEANED from Farmers General Reg
ister''-a book on the same lines as
American Ancestry "Savage's Die
tionary' is the third authority you con-
suit. and in one, if not all, you are GER
tain to find something of which you are
in search.
If you have a notion that you are
the daughter of hundred earls," turn
to Americans of Royal Descent" or
Collins Peerage," or ''Burke's Peer
age" or LANDED Gentry" If drop of
Irish or Scotch blood be in your veins,
to O'Harts Irish Pedigrees," Clyde's
Irish Settlers or Douglas "Baronage
of Scotland" If your ancestors rolled
over the deep in the Mayhower-its
passenger list used to number about
101, but surely a million, more or less.
must have arrived in that historic boat
consult History of Plymouth from
It's First Settlers in 1920 to the Present
Time by James Thatcher.
Other works to consult, if you trace
back to the Mayfower, are TrumbulPs
History of Connecticut" EARLY Puri-
tan Settlers" New Haven Church
Records" Mounts Relations, or a
Journal of the Plantation of Ply
mouth" and Founders of the New
Plymouth by Rev. Joseph Hunter.
Stearn's History of Ashburnham,
Mass" Humans early Settlers of
Connecticut" SWANS "Wetherfield,
Conn., are other authorities to look
into when in quest of New England
ancestry.
Meade's "Old Families of Virginia"
and Virginia Cousins" by G. B. Goode,
must be consulted for Virginia ances-
try.
If there are any historical societies
in the neighborhOod, important infor-
nation may often be attained; one
may even come across old family por-
traits or relics, or copies of graVestone
Inscriptions tucked away in some OBJ
scure corner. 49,
During your quest, never lose sight
of the fact that genealogical books are
not infallible. Jefferson, or some
equally great man, once remarked that
everyone should have education enough
to know how to spell his name in more
than one way. Mourt and Norton;
Crane, Grain, Crayne; Treat, Trat,
Trott, and similar examples, confront
you at every turn.
But for all your toll and turmoil you
will certainly feel quite repaid when
you have complete family chart. If
you don't care to have it displayed
upon the wall, keep it rolled, and if you
have chosen map paper, it will not
crease or crack circular chart is
not nearly as good as a half-circular
one, with the fathers line on the left
hand half of the paper and the mothers
on the other. Then the whole situation
can be taken in at glance. Only dates
of birth, marriage and death are writ
ten on the chart over against each
name, and every space should be num-