The Secretary desires to express his appreciation of the help he has received in his work from various members of the family.

The Historian, Professor Fitch, took a great Ideal of time from his last summer's vacation in order to prepare certain articles for the JOURNAL. This winter he also gave considerable time to writing for this purpose. The family is greatly indebted to him for this important service.

All the work connected with the printing and distribution of this number of the JOURNAL has been under the direction of the Chairman of the Committee on Publication, Mr. Samuel Wesley Marvin. The family is fortunate in having the JOURNAL in the hands of such an able and experienced publisher.

Mr. Frederic Rose Keator, Treasurer, has ably looked after the financial affairs of the Association and also helped to edit this number of the JOURNAL.

The Secretary also wishes to acknowledge the help given by his wife, especially in connection with JOURNALS 17 and 18. Respectfully submitted, CHAS. C. MORE, Secretary.

New York, N. Y., April 8, 1912.

The Permanent Record.

The Permanent Record of the Descendants of John More and Betty Taylor is a manuscript record arranged on the card index plan, so that new sheets may be inserted at any place. It contains the Genealogy given in the "History of the More Family" and is a continuation of it. Births, marriages and deaths are gathered each year and entered into this record, thereby giving a complete genealogy of the family from John More to the present time. This record has been kept for about 19 years, or since the publication of the History.

The plan provides a number for each descendant, which number does not change as the family increases. This system is particularly useful for genealogical work in connection with an ever increasing family. The plan used in the History, which is suitable for a completed genealogy in a book of that kind, does not easily lend itself to the work of keeping a family record up to date, for it is not possible to introduce new names without greatly complicating the numbers used.

In the Permanent Record system, a person's number is made up of digits, one digit for each generation beginning with the second and including his own. Numbers should be read by naming the digits in order, as: 3-1-4-2-5, for 314,25; 7-10-3-2 for 7(10)3,2. Numbers enclosed in parentheses, such as, (10), (11), (12), are to be counted as digits.

Some of the advantages of this system of numbering are:

(1). The first digit of a person's number indicates the person's "line," (that is, the child of John More from which he is descended). For example: in the number 431, the "4" indicates the Jonas line (4th child of John More); in 732, the "7" shows that the person belongs to the David line (7th child of John);

in 311,221 the "3" indicates the Alexander line (3rd child of John). The numbers of John More's children are: 1. John, 2. Robert, 3. Alexander, 4. Jonas, 5. Jean, 6. James, 7. David, 8. Edward.

(2). The number of digits in a person's number, plus 1, gives the generation from John More. Number 245,7 shows that the person is in the 5th generation; 835,122 indicates the 7th generation while 12 indicates the 3rd generation. (The first three digits from the left are pointed off by a comma. the eye in counting the digits.)

This aids

(3). Each person's number contains also the numbers of his parent, grand-parent, great-grand-parent, etc., right back to John More. To get the parent's number drop the last digit; to get the grand-parent's number drop the last two digits; for the great-grandparent's number drop the last three digits; etc.

(4). The numbers for children in the same family differ only in the last digits; first cousin's numbers differ only in the last two digits; second cousin's numbers differ only in the last three digits; etc.

The number itself indicates: line, generation, place of the person in the family (as 1st child, 2nd child, etc.); place of the parent in his family; place of the grand-parent in his family;

GENEALOGICAL CHART.