It was July 5th, 1976, when the finishing touches were made to the BARNES and Related Families Abridged Genealogical RECORD in a sweltering apartment near downtown Los Angeles. The project of writing the "Record" had so far taken seventeen months and a lot of care to see that it fulfilled its purpose bringing the Barnes and related families into recorded history while fostering a sense of value in knowing of our heritage, thus rejuvenating interest in gathering at annual reunions. Here is an account of that project; how it started, what occurred during its life, the people involved, and the adventures.
Impetus for the project had its origin far back in my life—back when I was twelve or thirteen years old in Jackson, Michigan. During that time I was developing enthusiasm for writing short stories, poems and the like, and had a great-grandmother who had survived a century and was still alive and sentient. The respect for, and interest I had in her were boundless, and I loved to hear Great-Grandma Franc Witherell discourse on the good ol' days. Once, while she lay abed with some malady, I told her daughter (my grandmother) that one day I'd write a story about Franc. The basic concept for doing a genealogy was planted in my imagination as of that dayespecially the variety that tells about the respective people and their lives in-depth. It would be another fourteen years before Franc's story, "A Lady in Waiting," would be achieved, but my interest and tendency toward doing this form of writing would not cease with that accomplishment. The seed had taken root, and now more than one sprout would seek the sun.
Another circumstance helped focus in my mind the need for a genealogical record. During my 19th year I was on active service in the US Navy and had left Michigan for the first time. Suddenly being on my own in the incomprehensible newness of San Diego, California and boot camp had the flavor of a traumatic experience, wrenching me from a lifelong complacency that things would always stay the same. During the subsequent four years of service it became increasingly clear that I knew very little about family history and, for that matter, its present. Also, some of the older generation relatives I had known and loved were dying, leaving in their void many unanswered questions. However, the need for doing a formal genealogy had not yet shown itself to me as a direction.
The first time I saw how a genealogical format looked was one that had been done for the Bliss family many years before. Mom's Aunt Etta (Bliss) Kendrick had used it to join the Daughters of the American Revolution about 1919, and in later years had given copies to her nieces.
The trigger that started a chain reaction of events and ultimately resulted in the "Record" was my being elected president of the 1975 T.H. Barnes Family Reunion. The way it happened was-in 1974, at the 50th Annual Reunion, only a handful of people attended. It was as though interest in even having a reunion was fading. While attending I happened to express my disappointment towards same and was overheard by Aunt Helen Leggett. During office elections she immediately nominated me, and soon I and 1st cousin Roy Barnes were chosen president and secretary/treasurer, respectively, for the next year's reunion.
Mom, Aunt Helen, and Uncle Charlie Barnes were selected to be a family information gathering committee. Over the years there had been occasional recordings in reunion notes of births, marriages and deaths, but nobody had ever done an extensive collection of data, or family census, to be tracked and passed forward through the generations.
As it happened I didn't go over, sit down under a tree and begin envisioning the "Record." In fact, Roy took me to Foote Hospital in Jackson that very day for an impending kidney operation. However, during my convalescence a general outline of what should be accomplished by reunion officers was written-up, and a portion of this outline covered preserving family historical information.
Time sifted by, and the realization that a great need existed for someone to do a genealogy finally crystallized in my mind, no doubt inspired as I helped Mom and her siblings with their family information collection assignment. By February of 1975 the direction was clear. When Mom realized that the interest I had in doing it wasn't simply a passing fancy, to be forgotten soon as gotten, she told me about cousin Horace Levengood. Horace and I were 2nd cousins once removed.
Horace Levengood was on the "Rhoodes" side of the Barnes family, variously pronounced "Rudes" and "Roads." He had been quietly collecting Barnes family vital statistics since the early 1970s, and his brother, Walter, had already done a genealogy on the Levengoods. Horace and Walter's mother, Myrtie Adell, had collected family-related newspaper clippings since as early as 1890, a tradition continued by her children using the same scrapbook. Horace, his existing framework of vital statistics evolved through correspondence with several families, and the scrapbook would be invaluable to the project.
I had seen Horace a number of times before, all of them at reunions, but our age difference was such that we never seemed to have much in common. However, when we got together over the expanding genealogical project, the generation gap closed and we had a good time together in our mutual research.
Much of my initial time was spent copying information Horace had already compiled. From him I first learned of great-grandparents Thomas and Sarah Barnes, who came to Michigan from New York. He also gave me the names of their known children, i.e., David (my great-grandfather), Aaron S., Sarah Ellen (Horace's grandmother), and Sophronia Ellen. Horace thought there might be another child, Martha, but had not yet found collaborating evidence.
Both Horace and I haunted the Jackson City Library and State Library in Lansing, and many letters were sent to relatives regarding collecting family statistics and other data. Meanwhile, we began constructing a family chart, or map, using information from the growing list of sources.
One source that got us off to a great start was the "1850 Census for Jackson County." During the Great Depression a number of women were engaged in a public works project to copy all names appearing in the census onto small index cards for easy reference. The project had been only partially completed and was just recently continued, but the families that we were most interested in researching had already been indexed.
Much excitement filled the next few weeks. Here it was first proven that Martha was one of Thomas and Sarah's children, as she was still living with them at the time. The big surprise came when another, hitherto unexpected girl appeared as a daughter. During the first months after this discovery we thought the name was spelled "Levira." Later it was found to be "Sevira," and she was the twin sister of Sophronia Ellen. Horace then recalled being told about Sophronia having a twin, but he was never told who the other twin was.
Because of the 1850 Census, Martha was confirmed and another sibling discovered. In the same room where the census was stored, I began finding notations in some local history books telling when these offspring were married and to whom. I found where great-grandfather David married his first wife, Arvilla Field, but did not find where he married my great-grandmother, Mary Hood. Later, it was found that they had been married in nearby Hillsdale County, where the record was easily located. Still later I discovered that Aunt Helen Leggett had the original marriage license for David and Mary.
Now that much basic information was at hand, I began spending many hours at the County Building researching family vital statistics, etc. I was occasionally assisted by Horace, who was retired from Kelsey-Hayes of Jackson, and also by Roy Barnes, who worked odd hours allowing him access to county records during normal business hours. I was out of work during the project's first year recovering from injuries received in a traffic accident on March 31, 1974. This mishap, in conjunction with the freedoms of bachelorhood, allowed me to work long hours, travel extensively, and have access to all available records. The crutches were a nuisance, however.
Incoming data snowballed, and new information found subsequently led to more, hitherto unexpected directions of research and the re-checking of old, supposedly dry sources. Postage stamps were ever scarce, and the phone bill climbed. Letters came from various relatives, and new disclosures were made at the different libraries and public archives. It was as though the project had taken on a life of its own and was beginning to self feed.
One day, while in the Jackson County Building, I happened onto the probate repository for old Thomas Barnes and immediately unearthed great quantities of new data. As part of the find the revelation was made that Thomas and Sarah had yet another child, a seventh offspring, Melissa (their first-born). Coupling this find with the information already known about Melissa and her husband, William Field, an entirely new branch of the family appeared on the developing genealogical chart. Finds such as this made the onward search exciting and definitely worthwhile.
As the amount and variety of data grew, it became a task to keep everything straight and in useable form. This was during the Typewriter Age, otherwise known as the Pre-Personal Computer Era, so any database set up would have to be completely manual. I finally decided the best thing to do was initiate a system of index cards arranged so as to distinguish one generation from the next, and to show each person individually and as part of his or her immediate family. Each family member would have a card with all known, pertinent facts concerning them written on it. Each family unit, also, would have a separate card which displayed the names of the parents, their marriage information, and their offspring's name(s). Later, when it came time to transcribe the genealogy, the time expended to devise, create and maintain the system proved not to have been wasted.
Prompted by my desire to accentuate the human interest side of the family, the collection of stories and accounts of the various families and individuals steadily grew. I expressed my genealogical sentiments in a 44-line poem entitled "Roots of Many Trees," written March 23, 1975. Also that month I wrote "A Time of Tears," the first story soon followed by others.
Some stories were copied directly from other sources such as newspaper articles, probate proceedings, inventories, wills, memoirs, etc. This category included "Last will and testament of Sarah Barnes," "Another Pioneer Dead," "Buggy Trip South," and so on. Still others were created by simply arranging known facts to depict what was happening, i.e., "A Time of Tears," "Movements of Thomas and Sarah Barnes," "Properties of David and Mary Barnes," etc. The third category was related to the second, but enough inside information was known to make the accounts and stories more entertaining and/or enlightening, such as "The Scene," "Account of the Family of Will and Nellie Barnes," and "By Name of Bonham." Stories continued to emerge throughout the months, and there were many rewrites in categories two and three as new data made old accounts inaccurate or incomplete.
A most profound discovery was made one day when my mother and I went to visit Aunt Helen Leggett in Horton. While there she showed us a number of relics from the family's history, among them being pictures and documents. Although I was awed by a family portrait of great-grandparents David and Mary Barnes with their children, the real bombshell came while reading several aged, yellowing pieces of paper. Upon these were written the memoirs of my grandfather, William Barnes. These papers contained notes about ancestors on both sides of his family, leading the way to new avenues of research and further discoveries in this and future genealogical endeavors.
Still another revelation shed light on a theretofore completely unknown branch of the family. Sevira Ellen Barnes, the recently rediscovered offspring of Thomas and Sarah, had married a man by the name of Philo Bonham. Horace and I knew little about their resulting family. There were, however, a couple of "mystery cousins" whose exact relationships to us were unknown. Mom recalled one of these, Dora Belle Buck. Horace remembered working with the other one, James Striker, although he didn't recall whether it was James or his wife who was related. Dora Belle had long since passed away, but Horace knew that the Strikers lived at Vandercook Lake, in a trailer court just south of Jackson.
We gave Mrs. Lillian Striker a call one day and she invited us over for a chat. During our visit Lillian explained that she was Dora Belle's daughter, and that Dora's maiden name had been Bonham. In one microsecond another major section of the puzzle fell into place. Before we left she let us borrow a typewritten manuscript of information originally copied from the Bonham family Bible. Then she gave me the address of her nephew, Bob Macomber, who lived in E1 Cajon, California, and soon Bob and I were corresponding. Lillian was Horace's 2nd cousin and my 2nd cousin once removed. Bob was Horace's 2nd cousin twice removed and my 3rd cousin once removed.
The Field family, during its early days in Michigan, had intermarried a few times with the Barnes family. Unions between the children of Thomas and Sarah Barnes and of Thomas and Charity Field included: Melissa Barnes to William Field, David Barnes to Arvilla Field, and Martha Louise Barnes to Horace Field ("Marshal Field of Jackson," i.e., sheriff). Horace and I had found information on the early generations but not much was known about the more recent ones. Fortunately, Horace knew that Florence Field, an executive for "Security Savings and Loan Association of Jackson," was a relative, so I gave her a call. She, in turn, gave me the address of her brother, H. (Horace) Howard Field, of Tonawanda, New York. Howard immediately responded to my letter and was very pleased to have established contact with another side of his family. We exchanged several letters and, as it turned out, he had been doing some genealogical research, himself, but had obtained mostly information on the Field family. H. Howard and Florence were Horace's 2nd cousins and my 2nd cousins once removed.
Howard went to Jackson in June of 1975 on a visit to his sister and brothers. While there, Horace and I visited him and Florence and exchanged some information and stories. The visit was interesting and rewarding. Besides the data exchange we also got to see painted photographic portraits of Melissa (Barnes) and William Field, Howard and Florence's grandparents. Once again the lamps burned well into the night as the Field branch was brought up-to-date. The index file was becoming a more comprehensive record of the Barnes and related families.
Early summer arrived, and with it came the necessity to put everything together into manuscript form. My plan was to drive to Los Angeles after the coming reunion for an indeterminate stay, so the future success of the project hinged on what got accomplished during the intervening months. Mom was very understanding and patient. Her dining room table was conscripted, and by the time I started transcribing the manuscript, the table and most of the back room were buried. Also, due to Mom's nurturing interest in maintaining contact with, or knowledge of practically everyone she had ever known, she was able to point directions and help contact assorted family scattered throughout the United States. This was despite distances in miles and generations, and regardless of labyrinthine name changes through marriage. Without Mom's connections, memories, input, uncomplaining support, thoughtful encouragement, and the love and respect that so many branch family members held for her, the project of writing and publishing the BARNES and Related Families Abridged Genealogical RECORD might never have happened. Nor did she hesitate in calling her sister Helen or brother Chuck, who were also invaluable, when tracking down information.
Midway through the transcription I went to stay at my dad's farm while he and my step-mother were away on a trip. The quiet lack of distraction was perfect, and I had a big, two-story farmhouse in which to spread out. During the time I was there, from July 21st through the 27th, the manuscript was nearly finished, including most of the original fifteen-page name index (which was started July 21st). On July 25th I interviewed Aunt Hilma Barnes, at which time the information was gathered for two "Record" stories; "Tom and Hilma's Story: Michigan or Bust," and "The Family of Hilma Sorola." That same day the one-page table of contents was established, with insertion of the two above-mentioned stories made later. The name index was completed July 29th and then typed and added to the manuscript; completion date for the whole script being August 6, 1975.
This was not slated to be the final work. It would be nearly another year before the genealogy was completed, printed and distributed.
The 51st T. H. Barnes Reunion demonstrated a renewed interest in continuing the event. Attendance on August 10, 1975, was higher than it had been in a long time-nearly 75 people. Here the manuscript was made available for relatives to scan through and thus point out errors, add missing information, and in general contribute to the project.
One very significant flaw was spotted by Mary Sterling concerning the "Centennial Farm" story. Much information was missing. She promised to send a letter filling in the gaps from the recordings in her family Bible, and did so in a letter dated September, 1975.
My 1st cousins Steve and Dorothy Davis had made a family banner with an American flag attached, and a professional photographer, Charles "Allen" Garrett, got all of us in a family portrait with the banner prominently displayed in front. When the reunion dispersed, we left feeling a little more secure in, and happy with our familial relationships.
It was time for me to leave for Los Angeles. Roy Barnes and his friend came over. I got Dad's pickup truck and we loaded up most of my worldly goods, taking them to storage. On August 12th, at 3:00 p.m., I and the AMC Hornet were off to California.
Decar time in the big city was 7:30 p.m. on August 16th, 1975. The next months were busy with re-establishment, and there was no time to devote to the lineage. Furthermore, the manuscript and accompanying data were still in Jackson at Mom's house. When all was settled and on an even keel-I had found a job and rented an apartment-Mom forwarded what was needed and once again action started on the project.
It was necessary (or at least advisable) to complete the first seven stages before traveling to Michigan for the 52nd annual T. H. Barnes Reunion. Attainment of that target would mean having completed the (1) research; (2) data accumulation; (3) composition; (4) subscriber solicitation; (5) final transcription; (6) printing/binding; and (7) distribution before July 30, 1976. In mid-May, 1976, a formal letter of announcement advertising production of the "Record" was sent out. While awaiting response I set about finishing the existing manuscript. During that time many more letters were exchanged. Bob Macomber helped round-out a story about the Bonham family by relating information from his personal memories in addition to sending more data from the Bonham family Bible. Also during that time a California-born cousin with Michigan roots, Dorothy Avalon "Tillie" Maher, sent her composition "Bells are Ringing for 'Hattie' and her Brood" plus some other family history tidbits.
Tillie had maintained correspondence with Horace, her 1st cousin once removed, for years. Tillie and I would meet for the first time on January 22, 1977, at her home in Santa Ana. During our subsequent visits I learned that she had a grandiose fantasy to just suddenly show up at a Barnes Reunion one year. It never happened, but she enjoyed thinking of the possibility. She was my 3rd cousin.
Tillie provided much information on the "Johnson" side of the family, especially her branch, which settled in California in 1892. Through her I realized that the descendants of Aaron and Julia Johnson of Exeter, New York, had also intermarried a few times with the Barnes family. Their eldest daughter, Emmaline (also spelled Emeline) Melvinie (Johnson) Sheldon, married as her second husband Aaron S. Barnes as his second wife; Aaron and Julia's youngest son, Clarence Burns Johnson, married Harriet Martha "Hattie" Rhoodes, daughter of Sarah Ellen (Barnes) and Edwin M. Rhoodes; and Aaron and Julia's granddaughter Birdella, daughter of Frances Adelaide Johnson, married Martin A. Barnes as his first wife.
In the letter of announcement dated mid-May, 1976, a deadline of June 30th was set, by which date all orders would have to be received. As the deadline approached, information continued to arrive. Many evening phone calls came in from relatives in Michigan and a few other states such as Connecticut and Ohio. A story arrived, written by Billy Barnes junior, about his father's career as a private pilot. Another cousin, Donald Fales, sent a letter in which he enclosed a copy of an obituary for his grandfather, Fred Fales, and additional data about that most interesting fellow. With inclusion of all the above (and much more), the manuscript no longer looked as it had on August 6th of 1975. It had grown by many pages through expanded vital statistics, articles, and stories. It had matured from having a single-page table of contents and 15-page name index to a two-page table and 16 page index. Meanwhile, orders and funds were beginning to materialize along with best wishes from relatives wanting copies. The following will show how the tally proceeded as interest grew and time diminished.
By the arrival of June, five orders had been received for a total of 34 copies. These first five people, noted for their obvious enthusiasm, were: Bob Macomber of El Cajon, CA, Walter Barnes of Minneapolis, MN, H. Howard Field of Tonawanda, NY, Charles Barnes of Jackson, MI, Royce D. Paige of Saginaw, MI.
By June 18, sixteen orders for a total of 64 copies had been received.
By June 30, twenty-three orders for a total of 71 copies had come in.
By July 8, twenty-six orders had arrived bringing the total so far to 105 copies. Of these, 8 orders were for 5 or more copies (including 3 orders for 10 or more and 2 for 15 or more). The rest were from one to four copies apiece. The two largest ordersfor 15 and 17 copieswere made by Lyndell McNickle and H. Howard Field, respectively. (I let the June 30 deadline slip a little, since one month wasn't much of a notice. Also, I planned on making several extra copies "just in case." The main thing I wanted to assure by the deadline was interest, which was amply established.)
Friday, July 2nd, should have been a lazy day since it was part of the 4th-of-July weekend. In reality I spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday completely absorbed in final preparations. "Epilogue," an essay expressing my personal pride regarding our family and its contributions toward promulgating a saner world, was written on Saturday, July 3rd, and was the last creative composition incorporated. The amorphous jumble of papers and ideas was congealing into a finished product. Monday and Tuesday evenings were spent rechecking and finally organizing everything for the printer. Late in the evening of July 6th, having done all that was planned towards preparation, the manuscript was ready.
Wednesday, July 7, 1976-the long-awaited day had arrived. The BARNES and Related Families Abridged Genealogical RECORD was tendered to the skills of printers at the "Stationery Place" on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. An order was made for 125 reproductions of the book utilizing the offset printing technique-with a special request that it be ready by Friday afternoon. Thursday passed with my making occasional (and most assuredly unappreciated) walking inspections of the operation. At last Friday arrived to everyone's relief, and at 3:00 p.m. the last page was printed. Before leaving with the several boxes of printed sheets I paid the $406 agreed-to and gave the artisan a bonus for his speed. Then I loaded all into the car, knowing-ouch-that I'd have to do the collating myself.
Friday night found yours truly making 74 stacks of 126 sheets of paper, back and forth across the floor, after moving nearly all the furniture out of the living room. It was looking like another all-work-no-play weekend (July 30th loomed ahead like a great enticement, and it, alone, pulled me through the toils to come). Then to add insult to injury I discovered that page 55 was printed the same on both sides, and page 61 was left out altogether. The first few devastating moments after the revelation were the worst. When the initial shock wore off, I realized the flaw didn't have to stop the collating, so the drudgery began. By Saturday night my back was in an awful state from bending over to pick up over 5700 sheets of paper, one after the other. A new plan of attack, devised mid-Sunday morning, called for the placing of 10 stacks on a table and collating them to the full-remaining count. Since 75 entire books had been completed, this meant making 50 subbooks, each with 10 pages. After the next 10 stacks of pages were collated to their count of 50, these new subbooks were incorporated with the ones previously made. Though tortuously tedious, this proved to be a working solution and saved my aching back. Before Mr. Sandman arrived that night to clout me with his mallet, everything had been collated. The multitudinous piles of nearly finished books awaited only the insertion of pages 55/61 before binding could commence.
Monday morning, July 12th, I took the misprinted pages back to the shop for a remake and completed the collating that night. Now all that remained was to bind and ship the finished product to the subscribers. The binding aspect would be no problem, since the agency where I worked had plastic strip binding equipment they would let me use for a reasonable fee. When Tuesday arrived, one-half of the collated books were transported to the agency. That evening one-half of these were bound. The next day, the ones finished the night before were mailed, and the other half of the batch was bound in the evening. On Thursday I took the rest of the collated books to the agency. At noon the copies bound the night before were mailed, and the evening saw me binding the third batch. This batch was sent Friday, and Friday night the binding was finished. Saturday brought mailing of the last copies and the beginning of a short sabbatical before embarking on the eighth stage of the "Record" project-a letter of additions and corrections. At long last I could relax and plan for the coming trip to Michigan.
There were over 90 attendees, including many children, at the 1976 reunion. This was the largest turnout ever according to existing reunion records. Everybody enjoyed meeting relatives they had never seen before and/or becoming re-acquainted with kin they hadn't seen in years. After the reunion, during the following week, Horace Levengood and I delivered copies of the "Record" to the Jackson City Library and the State Library in Lansing. The rest of my time was spent visiting relatives and friends. When I left Michigan after a stay of two weeks it was with a light heart, knowing that a purpose had been fulfilled and hoping that good effects of the project would continue into the future.
In February of l977 my attention began to focus on completing an addendum, the eighth and perhaps last stage of the genealogical project. A few additional vital statistics trickled in, and I included present-day locations of several people mentioned in the "Record." In a letter dated March 20, 1977, H. Howard Field included a photocopy of an article which had appeared in a St. Clair, Michigan, newspaper. The columnist who wrote it was Duane (Dar) Hollinrake, a close friend of the Field family [Dar's mother, Jesse (McArdle) Field Hollinrake, had as her first husband the ill-fated railroad fireman William T. Field (see the "Record" feature 'Wife cannot signal husband any more')]. Theme for the article was "genealogies," and as a point of illustration Dar included a few paragraphs from the "Record" story 'The Year of the Farm,' which he conceded was his favorite. Howard's letter also contained a story describing Buffalo, New York's awful "Winter of '77". By the end of March I had collected nearly four full pages of data and stories. Using the photocopy equipment at the agency I soon cranked out 125 copies of the addendum dated March 27, 1977, and sent them off to the respective "Record" subscribers.
The following is a list showing countries, states and cities of some "Record" recipients:
United States of America-
Australia (members of the Field family)
The days of our time will pass, replaced by recollection and historical notation. Our galaxy will move through its mega-wheel rotation, and new times will come bringing interesting things to mankind. Running as a golden thread of hope through the center of all the adventure and invention will be a heritage only mirrored in the "Record," as family not yet born will help build and shape countless futures. This tenure, by virtue of its sincere nature, will continue to fortify kin and help stabilize civilization until the end of time.
Charles William Paige
September 1977 - September 1978
Los Angeles, California
Revised August/September 1995
Pasadena, California
Alex Haley's book Roots, and its latter-1976 adaptation to television, were still in the distant future while the "Record" was evolving, so County Clerk offices were quite liberal in allowing genealogy researchers almost unlimited access to vital statistics. Roots would unleash the fury of a countrywide interest in family history manifested by a throng of people descending on County Clerk offices across the land physically, by phone, and through the mail. This deluge resulted in curbed access privileges even to the extent of being stopped in some United States expansion pivotal states such as New York.
Had the "Record" project not been done when it was, the BARNES and Related Families Abridged Genealogical RECORD would certainly have been far more "abridged" than it was, and with today's postal rates, far more expensive to produce and distribute. Most importantly, had it waited until the deluge subsided, not all of the primary direction and information contributors would have been available for consulting and inspiration:
| Horace N. Levengood: 1904-1995 | Lyndell J. (Levengood) McNickle: 1907-1976 |
| H. Howard Field: 1895-1981 | Florence Field: 1888-1986 |
| Dorothy Avalon "Tillie" Maher: 1908-1990 | Lillian (Randall) Striker: 1899-1985 |
| Mary Louise (Barnes) Sterling: 1905-1984 | Helen M. (Barnes) Leggett: 1902-2001 |
| Jennie Louise (Barnes) Paige: 1908-2003 | Hilma (Sorola) Barnes: 1910-2004 |
Since 1975 I have undertaken and completed a number of genealogical projects, with time spent on each almost evenly distributed between the lineage of my father (Page/Paige- Thayer- Keys- Castner- Welter) and that of my mother (Barnes- Bliss- Hubbard- Hood- McNelly/McAnally- Duncan- Wilson). All but the Barnes lineage were done under the restrictions outlined in this note's first two paragraphs, and none was as major and intense an operation-eliciting the family cooperation and participation-as the BARNES and Related Families Abridged Genealogical RECORD.
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