Bebb Genealogy: The Descendants of William Bebb and Martha Hughes, of Llanbrynmair, Wales (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bebb Genealogy: The Descendants of William Bebb and Martha Hughes, of Llanbrynmair, Wales If we decided for you, as the individual reader in question, to show before your paragraph, your father's paragraph and before that your grandfather's, this choice in your favor would immediately involve the result that your father's brothers and their descendants could not similarly find an unbroken sequence unless the material was repeated. In order to avoid such a dilemma practically all genealogies adopt a horizontal arranoement of the material Completing one generation before starting the next and rely on a number system for reference up and down. As to persons who have no descendants, there is less occasion for reference from.one part of the book to another. Hence we give no numbers to such persons except where cross references in the text make it desirable. This does not imply any reflection as to the importance of the unnumbered persons. Each-individual who leaves descendants appears twice. First, as a child at the end of the section dealing with his parent. 'at this point he is merely given his number plus a birth date sufficient to distinguish him from other possible bearers of the same name. In the next generation he will be treated under that same number just as his father was treated in the previous generation and his children will similarly be introduced at the end with their new numbers. In order to trace from.the parent down, selebt the number of the child in whom you are interested in the column of numbers indented from the left margin at the end of the parent's treatment, then find the corresponding number at the left margin in the succeeding generation. In order to trace from the child up to the parent, take the left margin number at the beginning of the parent's paragraph and find the same number in the indented column in the preceding generation. This is more complicated to describe than it is to work out in the book by actual experiment. For those who find difficulty in using this standard number system, I have supplied in Appendix D a series of charts. 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.