Interpreting the Starr Genealogies

In order to have a correct understanding of the Starr Genealogy, it will be necessary to keep in mind, that;

1. The numbers to the left of the names denote the place in the family, of the person, following.

a-All numbers under a heading denote brothers or sisters.
b-When the dates of the births of the brothers and sisters are positively known to be consecutive, they are preceded by an OK.
c-The small number to the right, in front of the names, denotes the generation in the family, to
    which the person following, belongs.
d-A horizontal line between two numbers, show that those above that line are only half brothers and sisters to those
    below it.
e-A perpendicular line before two or three numbers denote that they are twins or triplets.
f-A transverse line (/) before a name denotes that the person following, is of illegitimate birth.
g-In reading the numbers; read each one separately, giving the last small number at the right, thus; 1¹4²₇10³2⁴, should be read, as: one, four, ten two, fourth generation.

2. The name or names to the right of the first name after the numbers, is that of the husband or wife, or husbands or wives of that person.

3. All persons dying without issue have an * after their names.

4. To find the parents of any person; drop the last large number to the right in front of the name, turn back to the preceding generation and find the identical number. To find the grandparents, drop two of the large numbers to the right and turn back two generations and find the identical numbers. Follow the same retrogression to find the other ancestors.

5. To find the names of the children of any person, add a large number one, to the number in front of the name of the parent. turn to the succeeding generation and find the identical number, thus giving the eldest child, followed by the names of the other brothers and sisters, according to their relative ages.

6. The serial numbers, to the right of the names, refer to the numbers, indexing the biographical notes on the preceding names.

Explanatory.

     Take the following individual family on page ____ as an example. 1¹1²3³1⁴ Bushyhead. Nannie Foreman.

The 1¹1²3³1⁴ is the heading (a) of this family of brothers and sisters.

That the relative ages of the brothers and sisters is correct is indicated by the OK, (b) preceding their names.

That these brothers and sisters are in the fourth generation in this, the Grant family, is shown by the last small number ⁴ to the right of the numbers of the heading (c) and preceding the name of the Bushyhead, the oldest brother.

The horizontal lines (d) between the first and second numbers and between the eighth and ninth numbers show that Field's are younger half brothers and sisters of Bushyhead and that they are older half brothers and sisters of the Martins.

The perpendicular line (e) before Thomas and Susannah Fields show that they are twins.

Be careful in reading the numbers as indicated by (f), as; one, one, three, one, fourth generation. Richard Fields' number is 1¹1²3³2⁴, George Fields' number is 1¹1²3³3⁴ and so on down to the youngest sister, Rachel Martin's number which is one, one, three, eleven, fourth generation.

2.

Nancy Foreman was the wife of Bushyhead.

Richard Fields married Jennie Buffington, Elizabeth Hicks, Nancy Timberlake nee Brown and _______Grapp and the other brothers and sisters married as indicated.

3.

Richard Fields had children by his first three wives, but not by the last, as is indicated by the * after her name.

4.

To find the parents of this individual family, drop the last large and small number (1⁴) and turn back to the third generation find the number 1¹1²3³ and you will have the names of the parents (Bushyhead's father Captain John Stuart, a British officer). The grandparents of the Bushyhead-Fields-Martin brothers and sisters will be found by dropping the (3³1⁴) from the 1¹1²3³1⁴, turning back to the second generation and finding the numbers 1¹1² are before the names of William Emory and his wife who was the daughter of Ludovie Grant.

To find the names of the children of Susannah Fields who married George Brewer and Thomas Foreman, take her number; 11123384, add one large number one and a small number five to indicate the fifth generation, turn forward until you find her children.
1¹1²3³8⁴1⁵ Aky Brewer. Archibald Foreman.