RECORD OF FAMILY FACULTIES. 



Entries in family bibles, old letters, and the numerous miscellaneous 

 documents which are treasured up in families, often give most valuable 

 assistance in genealogical inquiries. 



It is quite impossible in a brief spate to describe the many docu 

 mentary records that may exist concerning any person. Among these 

 are School registers, those of matriculation at the Universities, polling 

 books, directories, the army and especially the navy registers. It is very 

 probable that the main facts of the career of any given person who is 

 known to have resided in England and to have been alive within the 

 present century can be traced, if pains be taken to search for them. 



BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF DIRECT ANCESTORS. 



The twelve pages that follow p. 15 are similarly arranged to those 

 which have just been described, except that more of their heading is 

 left to be filled up in pen and ink. The number of brothers and sisters 

 of each of the fourteen kinds of ancestors is so variable, and the 

 completeness with which their history is likely to be known is so 

 different, that it is impossible to prepare more methodical tables for their 

 entry without great waste of space. If the writer wants more pages, he 

 can easily interleave them ; and- he need not copy the various questions 

 upon them, but only their numbers. 



A little further on are more compact sets of Tables for the 

 same purpose. They are so arranged that the entries of the 

 brothers will be separated from those of the sisters. It will have been 

 observed that a similar separation of sons from daughters has been 

 made elsewhere. There are good reasons for this : first, it prevents the 

 possibility of a mistake in sex ; secondly, the data concerning males 

 have ultimately to be separated from those concerning females- thus, it 

 would be absurd to mingle the heights of brothers and sisters to deduce 

 an average from them ; thirdly, there is a considerable tendency in 

 heredity to follow sex, the males of a family often having a prevalence 

 of some one characteristic, and the females a different one. 



SUMMARIES. 



Blank forms for summaries are given that admit of being variously 

 filled ; they are arranged on the same principle as the Index to 



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