Excerpt from The Pedigree Register, Vol. 2: The Official Organ of the Society of Genealogists of London Six years to our credit. Well, that is more than was allotted us by some of our critics. Our continued existence has encouraged at least two other adventures to be announced. We shall see if there is room for five periodicals devoted to genealogy and family history in place of the two which held the field when our own course begun. If we can dispel the common idea, that genealogy is a study ministering to vainglory, pretence and social exclusiveness, a great step in advance will be gained. If genealogy teaches anything it teaches the absurdity of claims for consideration based on long descent: the proof that evidence exists to-day to show the descent and illustrate the career of almost every English-born person for the last four or five hundred years, and only awaits indexing, is one of the purposes we set before us. 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.