Mcmillan Family Record

Author : William Franklin McMillan
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ISBN 13 : 9781332294237
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book McMillan Genealogy History written by William Franklin McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from McMillan Genealogy History: A Record of the Descendants of John McMillan and Mary Arnott, His Wife, Who Were Born and Married in Scotland, Removed to the North of Ireland and Thence to Washington County, New York, About the Middle of the Eighteenth Century In preparing this work the authors have had the usual experience of genealogical writers. There have been difficulties to overcome, doubts to solve and many tangled threads to unravel. It has taken years of careful research and study, an endless correspondence and assiduous labor to accumulate, assort and record in proper position the subject-matter of the book. Yet it has been a "labor of love," and our only thought has been to produce a volume giving a complete record of our family and showing something of the lives of our ancestors; of-their avocations, their families, their surroundings and their standing among their fellows. While making every effort to get the record of births, marriages and deaths absolutely correct, we have gone a little farther, and given short personal sketches of many persons and historical data that we trust will be interesting to the present generation and useful to posterity. Of course we do not claim that the work is perfect. Unfortunately many families do not appreciate the importance of keeping an accurate record of births, marriages, deaths and other events. Some families keep no record at all, and many others only very scant and incomplete. So, in compiling a work like this, one has to depend largely upon the memory of persons, which after the lapse of years is often uncertain. We also find that often members of the same branch of family do not agree in their records or in their recollections. We often receive several different statements as to date of certain events, each being strongly supported by different members of family. Sometimes all efforts to harmonize the different statements fail and the event has to be left in uncertainty. It is from the faulty and inaccessible records scattered over this country and in foreign lands, and from the uncertain memory of busy people that the authors have constructed this book. Hence it has not been possible to avoid errors. We are conscious of earnest, unremitting efforts to reach the exact truth in every instance and to give our friends a perfect record. 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.