Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 1: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation; Illustrated
Strange and surprising would it be if the names and habits of ten thousand dis tinct types of species of spiders were studied, scheduled, portrayed and published, yet no thought given to preserving in permanent printed form the names and the deeds of human beings. Why then should we be at pains to enter the name and date of death upon the cemetery ledger, if henceforth no one is to read and use such entry? But if such memoranda are made, then printing them that they may be accessible is the logical outcome. The result is known as a genealogy.
Two things establish my faith that the family record is regarded as an essential. It is to be noted that one - third of the persons one finds studying in a library are intent upon biography, and the librarian never fails to add to his stock of genealogies, no matter what may be his other needs. It is true that there are many other reasons why nearly everyone is more or less inclined to participate in the preparation and preserva tion of biographies. Some have a strong instinct to leave for others the same sort ofmaterial for which they have searched, for in a peculiar sense it is eternal existence, best expressed in the words: To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
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