Banker: Universal Family Pedigrees 



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carded. The latter's card will then 

 show the next generation and so on. 



In the case of a daughter, since the 

 system is only for male lines, we turn 

 to the card for her consort. Thus in 

 the case of the daughter, Eunice 

 Wakeman Burritt. we learn from Fig- 

 ure 7 that she married twice, that she 

 had no issue by lier first marriage, 

 but had children by the second mar- 

 riage, and this family has been carded. 

 To find her family we do not turn to 

 a card for Eunice Wakeman Burritt, 

 for there is none, but we turn to the 

 card for her consort, A. J. Sawyer, 

 Figure 11, where we find the known 

 data of this family. Observe that the 

 fact that Eunice was a widow does 

 not appear on this card, only her 

 maiden name and the name of her 

 father is entered. The double mar- 

 riage in her case is found when we 

 look up her record on her father's 

 card. It thus follows that where a 

 woman has two or more families by 

 different husbands, each family ap- 

 pears on a separate card under the 

 name of the husband. The facts, 

 however, are readily determined on 

 turning to her father's card. The 

 several families of a man all appear 

 on one card. This necessarily comes 

 from carding only male heads of fam- 

 ilies and though it seems to involve 

 an inconvenience in the case of the 

 remarriage of widows, this is not very 

 serious. On the other hand, to at- 

 tempt to card both males and females 

 as heads of families, involves many 

 complications and would necessitate 

 a large amount of duplication. 



It appears evident, from the above 

 account, that so far as the records 

 are entered upon these cards it is a 

 simple matter to trace a person's 

 relationships in all lines of ascendants 

 or descendants or in the endless ram- 

 ifications of collateral lines through 

 every degree of consanguinity and 

 even passing out into the diffuse and 

 endless realm of connection by re- 

 peated affinity. 



Arranging the Cards 



In practical use the worker may 

 find it possible to reduce the labor 

 of filling out the cards by omitting 

 much of the data provided for, but 

 care should be taken not to omit any 

 datum which may be needed to iden- 

 tify different individuals of the same 

 name, and all names should be given, 

 if possible, as these form the connect- 

 ing links with other cards in the 

 system. The writer has found that it 

 pays to record all the data that can be 

 obtained, even though it takes some 

 patience to do it. 



As is readily seen, each card is an 

 independent unit representing a fam- 

 ily group and its location in the col- 

 lection has nothing to do with its 

 connection to other family groups. 

 For general purposes it is most con- 

 venient to keep the cards in a simple 

 alphabetical order. It is, however, 

 possible to arrange and rearrange 

 the cards repeatedly in any combina- 

 tion that may especially suit the pur- 

 poses or whims of the worker. This 

 need involve no other labor than that 

 of sorting the cards and the use of 

 such guide tags as the special arrange- 

 ment devised by the worker may re- 

 quire. In studying ancestry the cards 

 may be arranged in the order of the 

 ancestral line under consideration. 

 For determining degrees of collateral 

 relationship, the cards may be ar- 

 ranged in two series with reference 

 to any common ancestor and then by 

 simply counting the cards the degree 

 of relationship is at once determined. 

 Other combinations may be worked 

 out according to the purposes of the 

 investigator. If one wishes to keep 

 track of localities for the purpose of 

 local history studies, the locality where 

 the family chiefly lived may be entered 

 on the top line in the column of 

 "Remarks." Such cards may then be 

 easily detected and temporarily 

 grouped by localities when so desired. 



The great advantages of the system 



