The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-28

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  PEDIGREE HUNTING AT BOSTON Genealogical Society Rooms and thf
 Work of the People Who Haunt
 Them These Summer Days,
 There are few buster places these
 warm weather days that the library oi
 the New England Genealogical society
 on Somerset street, in which pleasant
 old-fashioned room may be found many
 professional and amateur genealoeists,
 all intent upon the tracing Of family
 lines or the bridging of puzzling gaps
 in complicated county records
 Women are in the prepondera.nce at
 the tables, for the gentler sex has par
 ticularly made it's own the work of es- tablishing pedigrees for those who need
 them in order to enter one of the many
 patriotic or historical societies. The
 summer is my busiest season. said one
 of these whose card bore the inscrip- ton, Ancestral lines traced.
 "In the winter" she explained, q
 browse in the libraries on material al
 ready collected, but with the long days
 and settled weather I get out in the | open field and trace up missing links
 You see, It's after all parish registers | land titles and militia rolls that are the
 principal sources of evidence and iden- | tification.
 Sometimes, just as one is about to 1 he, inv irot tbn ll1arpSt r3ppi-
 dent will provide a clue. One morning
 last summer I was in New England town trying to locate the record of a church congregation that had gone out of existence fifty years before. l had decided to abandon prusuit In that es- l pecial neighborhood, when l stepped , into a grocer's shop to buy something | for luncheon.
 The fat-faced young grocer was ser- wing a customer with cut of meat, and noticed him grab and tear page off from an old book that lay on the counter and wrap it about the meat. On examination the battered volume proved to be the very parish register yearned for.
 "The entry wanted was fortunately intact, but I could not help lamenting the amount of good matter invaluable to genealogists that had gone into ob- livon by way of purchases from that shop"
 To the question as to whether the work of a professional genealogist is profitable the young woman replied:
 Under some conditions it pays poor ly, there being often stoppages and ob- .l~Ia by long correspondence and inquiry
 Then there are more of the wealthy people here interested in genealogy than were to be found fifteen years ago, and lawyers employ us often.
 '"There is, too, work which is not diff ficult to do to be got from the trades people who make things to order for rich customers, and must have authen- | tic heraldic emblems for adornment. If | one is born antiquarian, with taste for roofing into old matter and liking | for romance the employment is not | distasteful.
 Tn searching for old records one runs up against queer sticks among the far mers. Once in Connecticut I was refer red to a certain deacon as the only per son concerned in the ownership of the ! original church register. I applied for | a look at the book and was flatly refus- ed. The deacon, who was busy in his barn rubbing up harnesses, didn't see what business I had with the dead and gone folks thereabouts After much I won him from this attitude by that I myself was de- scendant of one of his fellow townsmen, IL. | the book and let me inspect 1t, but nev- CT free and unhampered. He held con- tinually to one end of the page while held the other. And even when I got ready to copy the entry I wanted he held his end of the cover.
 'gT never trust nobody he remarked sourly. The smoother they talk and the sweeter they look the more I watch put for them
 But sometimes a genealogist has to 1isappoint a customer in spite of every lesire to please. A woman applied to me some months ago to look up her ped gree She had just come into a hand some fortune and wanted title to join a patriotic society, as well as to obtain a crest for her personal use. Her name being rather uncommon I located her ancestors with very little difficulty, but ound that one progenitor had died on he galows and another ended life in nadhouse.
 She was naturally much disappoint- d at the result of my researches, but he behaved so handsomely in the mat CT of compensation that I wished most heartily that I could have coined her pedigree.
 That's done often enough, you know, Occasionally with the principals knowledge, and again when he is en- rely innocent of the imposture. A lever and daring imposition of this sort anne to light last year. A genealogist raced a mans history 250 years back, it all along the way by orged records. He was paid S1 900 for is services and all went admirably ntil his employer, showing the will up- n which the whole thing rested to an cquaintance, who was an enthusiastic was told that 1t and all the 7 ther documents were spurious. The enealogist was sentenced to three ears penal servitude. There are cases milar in kind, though not in enormity, nown to the experts throughout the ountry But undoubtedly the greater art of the pedigrees made are verified 'ith the utmost care.
 "As a general thing only few mem CTS of any family care anything for