When this information appears on the Web where anyone can see it, information on living persons has been excluded here. If a deceased person is married to a person who is still living then just the word '(male)' or '(female)' is given. Unfortunately, this must be done to protect the living from 'identity thieves'.
When this information appears on a CD then the information for all living persons is included.
The format of 'yyyy-mm-dd' is used for most dates. If a date is preceded by a question mark (?) then that means that the date is an estimation. If a date is preceded by "ca" then that means that the date is very close to the actual date.
Please note that when an Old Style (O.S.) date was encountered on a Source Document, it was converted to a Gregorian Calendar date before included here. An example would be:
February 10, 1675/76 nbsp; will be included here as 1676-02-10
For further explanation, see the section on Old and New Style Dates.
Within the section for each person, all place names appear with the format given as:
Town-name (County-name) State or Country name
The numbering scheme used is basically the Henry System -- with a slight modification. An "Generation ID" followed by a hyphen is prepended to all ID's. The letters of the alphabet are used for this Generation ID. The author is considered to be in Generation "V". The parents of the author are considered to be in Generation "U". Each preceding generation is the next lower letter.
Within the Henry System numbering scheme, the birth order of a person is given as the rightmost character of the GIN. Then to the left of that is the birth order of his or her father. Then to the left of that is the birth order of the father's father. And so on for as far back as the ancestors are known. The Generation ID letter used is for the generation of the farthest back known father.
Note that when a person's birth order is not known then the Zero (0) is used for that person's birth order number within their GIN. Also, if a person's birth order number is ten or greater then the letters are used. Thus, 10 becomes "A", 11 becomes "B" and so on.
Several abbreviations are used throughout this writing but they are the standard abbreviations used in many genealogy writings. These abbreviations include:
Whenever a person's age is given while quoting a reference the age is sometimes given as: 75y 5m 11d. This means: 75 years, 5 months and 11 days.
For the states of the United States, the standard two character abbreviations are occasionally used. In addition, a two character abbreviation are used for some countries:
Sometimes a person is referred to by more than one name. For example, a man may be called "Edward" in some places and called "Edgar" in other places. So when the person is given in this book, both names are given and are separated by a backslash (\). Thus: Edward\Edgar.
The surnames of the ancestors are always capitalized throughout this writing regardless of the person. Then for the actual ancestors, their given names are also capitalized.