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Jim & Selma Burrows
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Preface
This is a genealogy of the family of James Lowell Burrows and Selma
Lavelle Brown. Much of the text in this document is computer-generated;
it is derived from a working data base. The data base is always being
updated, so the version of the document you now have is NOT a final
draft. Instead, it represents the state of knowledge as of 5 March
1995.
The genealogy is divided into sections, one section for each family.
Each section includes:
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A paragraph on the father.
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A paragraph on the marriage.
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A paragraph on the mother.
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A list of paragraphs on their children.
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A passage giving more detailed information on the family than what is
kept directly in the data-base. As the data-base stores information only
on direct ancestors and their siblings, this passage may contain
information on cousins, neices, nephews, and other connections. This
passage is the only part of the section written by a human, though it
may follow very much the same format as the computer-generated text.
The index contains entries for each person who appears in the data-base,
and optionally for those listed in the passage written by the
researcher. There is a main entry for each surname, with a sub-entry
for each individual. Women are listed by their maiden names; widows who
re-marry are listed both by their maiden names and by the surnames of
their first husbands. If Alma Trowghastly marries Largo Hiatus and
then, after his demise, marries Hubert Dawdle, she is listed under
"Trowghastly" and "Hiatus" but not under "Dawdle."
If a surname contains more than one word (for instance, "de la Tante"),
the index uses the last word of the name. So PlumŽ de la Tante is
listed under "Tante". This is because people often drop these small
prefixes from one generation to the next. However, the chapter title
uses the fullest form of the name ("de la Tante"), including all the
lowercase words preceding the last word.
The computer includes any hyphens, apostrophes, and interior capitals
when looking for the the last word in a name. "O'Clockley" comes under
O, not C. "Nerve-Fluttering" comes under N, not F. "FitzTightly" comes
under F, not T.
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