Emera Altizer and His Descendants: with Sketches of Connected Families

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Emera Altizer and His Descendants: with Sketches of Connected Families

Emera Altizer and His Descendants: with Sketches of Connected Families

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A desire to know who one's forefathers were, whence they came and why and how, is well-nigh universal among people of imagination. We have undertaken to answer these questions about our Altizer progenitors.<br><br> Unfortunately, the work has in some respects been too long delayed. Old papers have been lost; the minds of many of the living oldsters have groped in vain among dim memories of far-off childhood, for the stories heard from their grandparents. Many of the facts we want most to know have vanished into oblivion. But though much has been lost, much remains. Regret is vain and cannot restore what has perished; our effort has been to gather what is left and record it for posterity. Undeniably, it would be an impossible task to carry down to the present time each family from the six sons and two daughters of our ancestor in America, but we, the co-authors of this little book, have tried in every conceivable way to secure as much authentic information about each branch as possible, sparing neither time nor expense nor labor. In our search, we have for months corresponded with relatives in various sections, and with historical societies and other institutions; paid personal visits to the elders of the family; read more than a hundred volumes of history; pored over old books in courthouses up and down the Valley of Virginia and in Southwest Virginia, as well as in the archives of the Virginia State Library; searched old Bibles; gleaned data from tombstones; advertised for information in newspapers and historical magazines; and engaged the services of a professional genealogist. Bit by bit we have pieced together, like a jig-saw puzzle, the tale of our people, and meager though it is, and incomplete in many places as it must always remain, it represents a vast amount of toil. -- Taken from the foreword by Ruby Altizer Roberts and Rosa Altizer Bray.