Matthias Farnsworth and His Descendants in America: A Monograph (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Buchanan Farnsworth, Claudius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332155251 ISBN 13: 9781332155255

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Matthias Farnsworth and His Descendants in America: A Monograph The descendants of Matthias Farnsworth may well rejoice that the annals of the family have at length been preserved in this little book; their debt of gratitude to the faithful compiler, whose long and patient labors have borne this first fruit, can never be repaid. Only one who has essayed to piece together the fragments of obscure family history; to extract the kernel of truth from the chaff of family tradition; to reconcile the innumerable doubts raised by faulty records with ascertained facts; to unravel the tangled skein of departed generations with its broken and missing threads - only one who has attempted any of these things can fully appreciate the labor involved in or the value of a work of this character. For it must be remembered that this monograph is but the reflex of a work of far greater magnitude and importance, the Genealogy of the family. Without the untiring investigations that have been continued through two generations, without the collection and arrangement of the slowly accumulated material for that work, this book never could have been written. In these pages the author has endeavored to present to those bearing the name what has been learned of their family history in the progress of those investigations, free from the statistics that necessarily encumber the pages of the Genealogy, and to give them such information concerning those who have borne or who now bear the name as seemed most worthy of preservation. Beyond this, it is an effort by one who has devoted a large portion of a long life to this work to arouse a more general interest among the members of the family now living in the completion of the records of the family, past and present, and to hasten the publication of a Genealogy that, always of inestimable value, must be of still greater value and importance as time rolls on and the inevitable changes in social condition lead to an enhanced social estimat

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332155251
• ISBN 13: 9781332155255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124