Fairchild: A Genetic Portrait Chart 



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CONTROLLING THE NETWORK OF HUMAN 

 INHERITANCE 



As I look at these light reflections 

 made by living beings, some of them a 

 century ago, and realize that each one 

 was the result of the union of the two 

 (man and wife) who are directly behind 

 him I am conscious of the resem- 

 blance of this whole structure to a 

 network, a fabric stretching down from 

 the distant past to the present. Each 

 union of two souls is a knot in the net- 

 work, and each individual life is a 

 strand extending in time to the next 

 union. And is it not a wonderful 

 conception of human life to feel that 

 we who still live are knots in a marvel- 

 ous network of descent which has been 

 running on since man first came into 

 existence on this planet and which will 

 go on until he ceases to exist here? 

 Supposing millions could realize this 

 and that their actions were affected by 

 it as they are now by mysticism and 

 that there should be inaugurated by 

 youth throughout the world a study of 



To supplement this photographic 

 arrangement with data giving such 

 physical characters as are known to 

 be heritable has proven a difficult 

 undertaking, since the facts in many 

 cases are unobtainable. Fragmentary 

 as they are, however, they are given 

 here to show the type of facts which 

 might be included. Such characters 

 as size, longevity, hearing, eyesight, 

 complexion, baldness, color of hair and 

 eyes, should certainly be given and, 

 if possible, many others. 



THE children's ANCESTORS 



In this photographic study of the 

 ancestry of Alexander Graham Bell 

 Fairchild, Barbara Lathrop Fairchild 

 and Nancy Bell Fairchild the system 

 of Ancestral Numbers described else- 

 where in this number of the Journal 

 has been used. As they all have the 

 same blood combinations, any one of 

 them may be taken as the propositus, 

 No. 1. The ancestors are then enu- 

 merated 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. according 

 to the following plan: 



16 V IS 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2^ 29 30 31 

 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 



this question of the unions of great 

 human stocks, would not it lead to the 

 building of superb strains of the human 

 race? • Is there any conceivable or at 

 least reasonable method other than by 

 our own conscious control of our 

 children's inheritance to open the way 

 to the birth of those superior human 

 beings who we all believe are destined 

 to inhabit this world after we are gone? 

 Let every child study the network of 

 his inheritance and learn to be proud 

 of its longevity, its sturdiness, its 

 intelligence, its lovableness, and its 

 force of character, and when the time 

 comes, he will hesitate to unite it with 

 an inheritance less worthy. 



First parents (father and mother) 



2 . Children 's father 



David Grandison Fairchild 1869. 

 Fourth of five children. Slender in youth 

 (5 ft. 1 1 J/2 inches) ; heavier at 45. Com- 

 plexion clear. Hair light brown ; beard 

 reddish, not abundant, becoming gray 

 early. Eyes blue, left one defective. 

 Has worn glasses from boyhood. Hear- 

 ing average. 



3. Children's mother 

 Marian Hubbard Bell 1880. Second 



of four children. Slender (5 ft. 7 in.) 

 Complexion olive. Hair black and 

 abundant. Eyes dark. Eyesight un- 



