The journal of American history (1909) (14761897456)

Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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inents and of the widest public service not only to genealogists, butto all Americans who desire to lay a genealogical foundation under theirhomes and families. Knowledge of ancestry is information which all arein duty bound to transmit in permanently recorded form for the benefit oftheir children in particular, and of posterity in general. Failure to recordin the present what is now known to be accurate genealogical informationwill result in the loss of this knowledge to succeeding generations. American genealogists are cordially invited to co-operate in this organ-ized movement toward placing genealogy on sound and permanent founda-tions, tending toward the establishing of the science of heredity. On thiscentenary of the discovery of evolution it is a safe assertion that withinthe next century another Darwin will arise with the revelation of a newforce, more subtle, more powerful than them all—the science of buildinga great race through a full knowledge of the science of heredity.
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