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Excerpt from The Ancestors of My Children: And Other Related Children of the Generations Living in the Morning of the Twentieth Century It may be stated that the following work, in plan and scope, is not what, at first, I had in mind to compile. My ideal of a family genealogy has been and is - to take the name of an ancestor who seated a family in the New World, and make that name the trunk line of the work, placing the immigrant and his wife as generation one in the work. Then I would run the lines of those first American ancestors back in the Old World as far as practically possible. Next, I would find and place all their descendants in America, irrespective of the changes in names through marriage. In coming down the line, when one in it is found to have married, I would trace the lines of the family, of him or her, thus allied to the trunk line, straight back, at least to the come-over, and over the seas if data were available. Perhaps it is not possible to attain the measure of fullness here indicated under any circumstances likely to attend one undertaking it. But, be this as it may, I dislike the idea of a partial history of the descendants of an ancestor; and especially, when, from any cause, the parts omitted are a considerable portion of the whole. Such would, of necessity, have been the case, had I, with the material in hand, in any past stage of my search, compiled a genealogy of the descendants of Joseph 1 and Alice (Pepper) Clark, or of Lawrence 1 and Lydia (Townsend) Copeland, or of both, or of any other first American ancestors of my children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.