Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05
7GENEALOGY

All communications for this dcpar-t-
ment should be addressed to the secrc-
tary, Elder Joseph F. Smith, Jr., caro-
Historians Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Life membership in the society costs
$40; annual membership Is s2 tho first
year and 81 a year for each subse-
quent year Annual members have the
privilege OF becoming life members by
paying the difference between what
they have paid and the sum OF a life
membership. Membership IS not trans
ferable.
INFORMATION
We continue this week our instr,c
tions and suggestions TO the many in
quirers and friends OF the department
The next question on our list is: What
shall be done with a long, printed pedi-
gree or chart which has not been drawn
off into a temple record?
In answer TO this question the sug-
gestion will be repeated that anyone
possessing such a pedigree needs In
struction and teaching in order to
properly prepare his material for tenn
pie work; therefore. he should avail
himself OF the advantages OF this so
ciety by becoming life or annual
member. The succeeding question is
similar, and we Will consider them both
together, viz: Whht should be done
with u printed family genealogy?
Very often people send to England,
or 10 the east, for genealogies In Their
family lines. The genealogy is returned
10 them in the shape of a tree, OF I'm q
diagram. or in 4 chart. To explain
the difference between these terms or
forms OF prepared gcnealogies: A
tree" OF genealogy Is arranged like a
tree with double trunk. from this
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branches as there are names. The par
ents have, say, flve children: then there
would be fve main branches going out
from the parent trunk. The childrcn's
children would appear as twigs spring
ing out of the main branches; and
other twigs would grow out OF these to
represent the children's children's chill
dren. Thus the family line springs
from the one parent root. This is an
antiquated form and is used but rarely
now. The next form used is that OF a
diagram; and that is sometimes ex-
tended into a chart. The diagram form
Is the one used by the HARLEM society
of England. and all their numerous
publications preserve this form. The
father is at the head. or at the left
side of a long line drawn across the
sheet of paper; his children come under
that line in their order. Shorter lines
arc drawn for the children'S children,
and still shorter lines for the succeed
ing generations. This is the form used
In Europe; all those who send there re-
ceive their work done on excellent pa
per. and written in clear diagram form.
This Is more satisfactory than the
tree. but still is not so clear and simple
nor so easily adjusted by the genealo-
gist as is the American mode OF pre-
pairing genealogies This mode is sim
ply writing the name of the first par
cnt, with his date following on the
Same line. He is then repeated on the
third line. and his wlfes name and
dates are placed under his This is
followed Immediately with the word
Children" as was explained last week
in this department. The first, second
and third generations follow in their
order, and by a simple system OF num-
bering the names are perfectly adjust