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THE LEARNED FAMILY IN AMERICA
'"? Vy^r Abbreviations and terms used in this
ae (Latin, aetatis), of an age, aged.
asterisk (*) indicates family in following generation.
b., bom.
ca (Latin/circa), about, around the time of. d., died, div., divorced, inf., infant.
issue, children.
i: . ...
m? married.
m. int., intention to marry (banns), sic (Latin), thus, so. s.p., (Latin, sine prole), without issue unm., unmarried.
THE LEARNED FAMILY IN AMERICA
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PREFACE
The Learned Family, first edition, 1882, second edition, 1898, by the late judge William Law Learned, of the New York State Supreme Court, has here been revised and brought up to date. With the consent and invaluable advice of Judge Learned's grandson, the late William Law Learned Peltz, Esq., continued after his death by his great-grandson, William Learned Peltz, M.D., of the University Hospital, Philadelphia, this genealogy contains many new no?-?s and corrections made by the original compiler in his interleaved copies of .4 first two editions.
AH discoverable new branches have been added, and many whose representatives had failed to supply data originally requested. Such failure occurred in present cases also; the names of those persons are listed in an appendix.
The index now includes (1) Leameds, (2) persons who married Leameds, and (3) places named after Leameds. Variant spellings of the name: Lamard, Lamed, Lamerd, Larnett, Leanard, Leanhard, Leamard, Leonard, Lerned, Lemott, are indicated throughout the text as used by the various branches.
In this edition, the numbering system has been changed in order to simplify the arithmetic involved in accounting for the large number of persons who comprise the (now) fourteen generations of the family. Each generation is denoted by a letter (first generation. A; second, B; third, C; etc.); beginning with the numeral one (1), each person in the given generation has a num^ assigned in the chronological order in which he appeared on the family scei.c; each individual is indexed first by this number, and second, in parentheses, by his (or her) parent?s number. A spouse is listed under the husband?s or wife's number, for easier reference. Thus, the entry under that number contains or refers to all known information on that person; his complete ancestry back to the progenitor, names of wife (or wives), dates of birth, marriage and death, and names and dates of known children. An asterisk (*) opposite a name in the text indicates that that person appears as head of a family in the following chapter. Full names, where known, instead of initials, are indexed. Conjectures about members of the family ("possibly," "probably,? ?perhaps," etc.) are omitted, with one exception ?the case of the coat-of-arms.
The result is a factual, compact compilation of the family lineage. Errors and omissions must be my own responsibility.