How to Prepare the Register; giving Names of the Family, Births, Marriages and Deaths.

DURING LIFE, a carefully prepared record of the family, which should be arranged by the head of the household, is of great convenience for reference. This register should contain the name, birth, marriage, and death of each member of the family. It may be kept in the Bible, on a paper prepared especially for the purpose, suitable for framing, or in any manner whereby the same may be preserved. It may also contain brief biographical sketches of members of the family.

IN preparing the register, care should be taken to give the names of the family in full, the town and state where each was born, and date of birth; the state and town where each died, and date of death; town and state where each married, and date, together with the name of the officiating clergyman, or magistrate, and of one or more witnesses to the marriage. In proving claims to pensions, or heirship to estates, this is frequently of great importance. Observe carefully the form of record shown on the opposite page.

Biography Of Children

GUARDIANS and parents are also recommended to prepare in a book of blank pages, made for the purpose, a biographical sketch of each child under their charge, noting peculiarities of birth, attending physician, color of hair, eyes, etc, when born; strength of constitution, subsequent disposition, age at which the child first walks, talks, reads, writes, first attends school, and so on upwards until the child is able to take up the record itself.

THE child's record should be made very full and explicit for many reasons, the principal being that it may be of great service to the future biographer of the child, while the physiologist may draw an important lesson by a comparison between the habits of infancy and those of mature years. This record will certainly be a matter of value to the family, and like the infant-picture, it will be of especial interest to the man and woman as a daguerreotype of their early years.

Family Register

NAMES

BIRTHS.

DEATHS.

HENRY DANIEL BAKER.

May 2, 1800, at Concord, N. H.

Dec. 8, 1850, at Rome, N. Y.

MARY EMILY BAKER.

June 7, 1810, at Troy, N. Y.

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Children.

WILLIAM WARD BAKER.

August 6, 1834, at Rome, N. Y.

June 9, 1862, at Detroit, Mich.

HIRAM KING BAKER.

April 14, 1837, at Rome, N. Y.

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WALTER HENRY BAKER.

July 2, 1839, at Rome, N. Y.

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MARY EMILY BAKER.

May 10, 1842, at Rome, N. Y.

April 17, 1869, at Rome, N. Y.

SARAH ADOLINE BAKER.

Nov. 18, 1845, at Detroit, Mich.

Feb. 6, 1855, at Detroit. Mich.

CHAS. ALBERT DOW BAKER.

Oct. 4, 1848, at Detroit, Mich.

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Marriages

NAMES.

By Whom Solemnized.

Names of Witnesses.

HENRY DANIEL BAKER and MARY EMILY MUNSON.

By the Rev. A. H. Burling,

June 2,1831,

At Troy, New York.

In Presence of

A. D. Baker,

Mary E. Sherman,

Cynthia Benson.

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Children.

WILLIAM WARD BAKER and BERTHA JANE CORBETT.

By the Rev. D. P. Smith,

Sept. 1, 1859, At Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

In Presence of

Hannah E. Holmes,

Thos. E. Andrews,

W. H. Burton.

WALTER HENRY BAKER and

ALICE ANN BAILEY.

By the Rev. Arthur Brown

Sept. 4, 1865,

At Rome, New York.

In Presence of

D. R. Newell,

Selden Marshall,

Susan Maynard.

MARY EMILY BAKER and

MYRON BURTON ELDRIDGE.

By the Rev. D. O. Smith,

Aug. 16, 1865,

At Detroit, Michigan.

In Presence of

Capt. O. D. Kemple,

Malvina Simpson,

Harriet Putnam.

CHAS. A. D. BAKER and

FLORENCE PERCY BRIGGS.

By Wm. M. Kellogg, J. P.,

March 4,1872,

At St. Louis, Missouri.

In Presence of

Anna E. Moore

Chas. D. Wells,

Abigail Minard.

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